May 2, 2016

Three ECE students receive Purdue Graduate Teaching Awards

Graduate Student Ahmad Gheith
Graduate Student Ahmad (Alex) Gheith
Graduate Student Richard Marcus
Graduate Student Richard Marcus
Graduate Student Benjamin Vondersaar
Graduate Student Benjamin Vondersaar
Ahmad (Alex) Gheith presentation
Ahmad (Alex) Gheith receives his Teaching Award
RJ Marcus and Ben Vondersaar presentation
Left to right: Professor David Meyer, RJ Marcus, Ben Vondersaar, and Lab Coordinator George Hadley
Ahmad (Alex) Gheith, Richard (RJ) Marcus, and Benjamin Vondersaar were honored for their dedication to Purdue students and their outstanding teaching contributions.

Three ECE students, Ahmad (Alex) Gheith, Richard (RJ) Marcus, and Bejamin Vondersaar, have received the Purdue Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award (formerly the CETA award). The award honors graduate students with teaching responsibilities from across campus for their dedication to Purdue students and their outstanding teaching contributions. Recipients are selected by each academic department for their commitment to undergraduate education. Departments may select one recipient for every 50 graduate teaching assistants they support. The Graduate Teaching Award is sponsored by the Teaching Academy and the Office of the Provost.

Ahmad (Alex) Gheith is a PhD student working with Professor Jan Allebach in the area of computer vision.

RJ is a masters student studying software security and machine learning. Previously he has worked at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and he will be working full-time for Northrop Grumman after graduation. This is RJ's fourth semester of teaching ECE477, and he would like to thank Professor Meyer, Professor Thottethodi, and George Hadley for their fantastic guidance and teaching.
 
Ben is a masters student studying digital signal processing, acoustics, and sparse signal representations with Professor Stanley Chan. He has worked previously at Bose and Apple, and will be joining Ford full time this summer. This is Ben's sixth semester teaching ECE 362, and he would like to thank Professor Meyer and Professor Melloch for the opportunity and mentorship.