Professor Nicholas Peppas has just won a prestigious national award, the 2006 Dow Chemical Engineering Award and Lectureship of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Professor Nicholas Peppas has just won a prestigious national award, the 2006 Dow Chemical Engineering Award and Lectureship of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The award presentation will be at the ASEE banquet in Chicago on Monday, June 19, 2006. This award, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company, is presented to a distinguished engineering educator to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in an important field of fundamental engineering theory or practice. Peppas is recognized for his scientific and educational contributions to bionanotechnology, biomolecular sciences and engineering, and for his leadership in engineering education over the past 30 years.
Nicholas has been an exceptional educator, teacher and counselor, whose concern for the students has been legendary. He has been at UT since January 2003 and in seven semesters he has designed and taught seven courses BME 385J, BME 385J.34 and BME 380J.2, ChE 379/384, ChE 387M, ChE 322, and ChE 372. Of these, four are new courses not previously offered at UT (ChE 379/384, BME 385J, BME 385J.34 and BME 380J.2). They include two required core BME graduate courses in BME (Quantitative Physiology and Forces, Fields and Flows in Biomedical Systems) and a BME course on Biomaterials Science and Engineering, plus required undergraduate ChE courses on Thermodynamics and Kinetics and Reaction Engineering, a senior/graduate ChE course on Polymerization Reaction Engineering, and a graduate ChE course on Advanced Mass Transfer.
ASEE has already been recognized Peppas' contributions to education and research with the 2000 General Electric Senior Research Award, the 1992 George Westinghouse, its highest teaching recognition, the 1988 Curtis McGraw Award of ASEE for best engineering research by an ASEE member under the age of 40, and the 1980 Western Electric Fund Teaching Award which recognizes exceptional early teaching. At Purdue, where he was for 26 years before joining UT, Nicholas received the Potter Best Engineering Teacher Award three times and the Shreve Chemical Engineering Teaching Award five times.
