New Faculty Member Award

The CUTC/ARTBA New Faculty Award is given annually to a tenure-track faculty member in Transportation. The award purpose is to recognize outstanding teaching and research contributions to the Transportation field. The award recipient will receive an appropriate citation and a check for $2000 that will be presented at the CUTC annual banquet during the January TRB meeting.

Qualifications:

To be eligible for this award an individual must:

1. Be in a tenure track faculty position at a CUTC member university offering an academic transportation program.
2. Has been the occupant of the tenure track faculty position for less than six years at the time of nomination.

Selection Criteria:

The award recipient will be chosen from eligible nominees based upon demonstration of superior performance of faculty duties. The following evaluation criteria will be used:

1. Demonstrated excellence in classroom teaching as well as individual instruction. Metrics that might be used to show excellence could include student evaluations, student paper awards for supervised students and successful supervision of Master’s and/or doctoral students.
2. Contributions to development of new knowledge. Metrics might include refereed journal publications, as well as, refereed proceedings, research reports, presentations to professional organizations and awards for all of the above.
3. Participation in professional organizations. Metrics could include membership in appropriate professional groups, leadership positions held and activity in associated committees.
4. Sponsored research activity. Metrics should include dollar amounts of research funding procured and spent and numbers of research studies undertaken.
5. Public service. Evidence might include service to the university, community, schools, public interest groups or any significant activity not covered by items one through four.

New Faculty Member Award Nomination Form

Note: Deadline for submission is around the middle of September each year. Please contact ARTBA for an exact date. The winner will be announced prior to the end of November.