Lecturers in the Faculty of Engineering who go the extra mile for their students were recognised during the faculty’s recent Teaching Excellence Awards.
The awards rewarded teaching and community engagement excellence during 2014.
Fareed Ismail in the Department of Mechanical Engineering walked away with the Outstanding Community Outreach Award for the Modular Solar Powered Aquaponics System. CPUT has been working with impoverished communities by introducing renewable energy projects that favours the upliftment of such communities. Together with students, technicians, lecturers, industry, non-government and communities Ismail strives to facilitate the introduction and growth of this project.
Dr Panagiotis Lazanas (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) received the coveted Faculty’s Teaching Excellence Award. Lazanas’ efforts have been extremely successful as he has managed to assist his students to achieve throughout rates between 95% and 100%. He makes use of many innovative teaching techniques and has presented papers and workshops on his techniques in conferences in South Africa, United States of America, Europe and the Far East over the last 15 years.
Prof Marshall Sheldon, the faculty’s Acting Dean, also awarded Departmental Teaching Excellence Awards to Captain Lauren Lawson (Maritime Studies), Laura Pinfold (Construction Management & Quantity Surveying) and Nina Drotskie (Clothing and Textile Technology).
