Thirty eight faculty members at the University
of Missouri-Rolla received UMR’s Outstanding Teaching Award for 2007 during a
luncheon held Monday, Dec. 3, on campus.

The Outstanding Teaching Award is given each
year to faculty members recognized by the UMR Committee on Effective Teaching.
The committee bases its selections on student evaluations of faculty
members.         

The following were selected to receive the
awards:        

— Dr. Diana Ahmad, associate professor of
history and political science

— Col. Thomas Akers, instructor, mathematics
and statistics

— Dr. Douglas Carroll, professor of
interdisciplinary engineering

— Dr. Minsu Choi, assistant professor of
electrical and computer engineering

— Dr. Petra DeWitt, lecturer, history and
political science

— Dr. Lokesh Dharani, Curators’ Professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering

— Dr. James Drallmeier, professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering

— Dr. Xiaoping Du, assistant professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering

— Dr. Kelvin Erickson, professor and chair of
electrical and computer engineering

— Stephanie Fitch, instructor, business
administration

— Dr. Gary Gadbury, associate professor of
mathematics and statistics

— Dr. Lance Haynes, professor of arts,
languages and philosophy

— Dr. Greg Hilmas, professor of materials
science and engineering

— Dr. Irina Ivliyeva, assistant professor of
arts, languages and philosophy

— Dr. William Kehr, instructor, business
administration

— Kelley Koob, lecturer, mathematics and
statistics

— Dr. Kurt Kosbar, associate professor of
electrical and computer engineering

— Merilee Krueger, lecturer,
psychology

— Dr. Vy Le, professor of
mathematics

— Dr. Jennifer Leopold, assistant professor
of computer science

— Dr. Yinfa Ma, professor of
chemistry

— Dr. James Martin, associate professor of
psychology

— Dr. John McManus, associate professor of
history and political science

— Dr. Scott Miller, associate teaching
professor of materials science and engineering

— Dr. Glenn Morrison, associate professor of
civil, architectural and environmental engineering

— Dr. Gary Mueller, associate professor of
mining and nuclear engineering

— Dr. Michael Nelson, assistant professor of
psychology

— Dr. Hank Pernicka, associate professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering

— Dr. Timothy Philpot, associate professor of
interdisciplinary engineering

— Dr. Adam Potthast, assistant professor of
arts, languages and philosophy

— Dr. David Richardson, associate professor
of civil, architectural and environmental engineering

— Dr. David Riggins, professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering

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

— Dr. Greg Story, associate professor of
physics

— Dr. Daniel Tauritz, assistant professor of
computer science

— Dr. David Van Aken, professor of materials
science and engineering

— Dr. Ralph Wilkerson, professor of computer
science

— Dennis Wilson, instructor, arts, languages
and philosophy.