Fellowships

E. A Reid Fellowship Awards

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Established 1983

Ernest A. Reid
Ernest A. Reid
Ernest A. Reid received his BS degree in 1914, MS degree in 1915, and the professional degree of Electrical Engineering in 1927, all from UIUC. He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1915 to 1917. In 1917 he returned to the University of Illinois as an instructor and later became a full professor in 1946.

He was faculty advisor to both Eta Kappa Nu and the student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He worked closely with the students in supervising the Electrical Show, the success of which ultimately resulted in the development of the Engineering Open House as a collegewide activity.

He retired in 1956, but continued to serve the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering by developing a supervision and training procedure for guiding the new teaching assistants. He visited their classes and then counseled with them on how to improve their techniques.

Professor Reid died December 15, 1965.

Description:

In 1983 Mrs. Nell W. Reid established the Ernest A. Reid Fellowship Award in Honor of her husband who taught in our department from 1917 to 1956. The fund was set up to encourage graduate students pursuing the Ph.D. to consider an academic career. It is the donor's desire that "deserving...students interested in pursuing a course of study resulting in teaching of electrical engineering" be given preference.

Criteria:

  1. You must be a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, enrolled in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  2. Academic performance as demonstrated by (but not restricted to) coursework and grades, recommendations, and previous recognition (awards).
  3. Demonstrated interest in engineering education, including teaching experience in the classroom, laboratory or as a tutor; extracurricular teaching, such as demonstrations to high schools, scout troops or other outreach; service to the community which promotes technical awareness; and research or other outreach activities promoting engineering education.
  4. Research accomplishments, ability or potential as evidenced by publications, presentations, letter of recommendation, and the student's essay.
  5. Assessment of the student's commitment to and potential for contributing to engineering education based on the student's essay, letters of recommendation, and previous performance.

Applications:

  1. Applications for the fellowship may be submitted online and will include an essay of approximately one page by the student nominee. The essay should describe the student's career goals, how these goals will impact engineering education, and how the student's Ph.D. program will help accomplish those goals.
  2. The application period will be advertised on My.ECE during the Spring semester.

Selection Process:

The Department fellowship committee reviews the applications and selects the recipient.

Award:

The award carries a stipend of $5000, which is paid over the academic year.

Past Recipients of the Award:

School Year Recipients
2009-2010 Geoffrey Herman
Kevin Lin
Mohamed Mohamed
Alexandros Papakonstantinou
2008-2009 Che Lin
Rui Wang
2007-2008 Jonathan Holm
Tung Le
Joseph Tate
2006-2007 Maokun Li
Shreyas Sundaram
2005-2006 Noureddine Tayebi
2004-2005 Marco Amrhein
Robert Balog
2003-2004 Vikas Kawadia
2002-2003 Ronald Barnes
Joseph Mossoba
2001-2002 Jill Nelson
Sopan Joshi
2000-2001 James Melody
Trong Nguyen
1999-2000 Daniel A. Connors
1998-1999 Daniel Weile
1997-1998 Jefferey Minch
1994-1995 Jay Kruse; Gabriel Cueva
1989-1990 James Drewniak
1988-1989 Mariessa Crow
Robert Veillette, Jr.

Kara MacGregor

For More Information Contact:

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