Thirteen faculty members in The University of Missouri-Rolla School of Materials, Energy and Earth Resources (SoMEER) received teaching awards during a ceremony on campus April 28. 

SoMEER is home to ceramic engineering, metallurgical engineering, geological engineering, petroleum engineering, geology, geophysics, mining engineering and nuclear engineering programs at UMR. The three departments in SoMEER are materials science and engineering, geological sciences and engineering, and mining and nuclear engineering. The dean is Dr. Mariesa Crow.

Dr. Ronald Kohser, professor of materials science and engineering, received the SoMEER Dean’s Teaching Scholar Award. The award is based on nominations from faculty and department chairs. 

Dr. John Hogan, associate professor of geological sciences and engineering, and Dr. Jeffrey Smith, associate professor of materials science and engineering, are co-winners of the 2005-2006 SoMEER Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is based on nominations from students and faculty. 

The following are winners of the 2005-2006 Sustained Excellence in Lab Instruction Award, as determined by evaluations from SoMEER students during the past six semesters:

– Dr. Derek Apel, assistant professor of mining and nuclear engineering       

– Dr. Richard Brow, Curators’ Professor and chair of materials science and engineering

– Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman, associate professor of geological sciences and engineering

– Dr. William Fahrenholtz, assistant professor of materials science and engineering

– Dr. Larry Grayson, professor and chair of mining and nuclear engineering  

– Dr. Robert Laudon, professor of geological sciences and engineering

– Dr. F. Scott Miller, associate professor of materials science and engineering

– Dr. Kent Peaslee, associate professor of materials science and engineering

– Dr. Jeffrey Smith, associate professor of materials science and engineering

– Dr. Paul Worsey, professor of mining and nuclear engineering.      

– Dr. David Wronkiewicz, associate professor of geological sciences and engineering