Inaugural COE&IT Celebration, May 6, 2018.

Tue, 08 May 2018 13:46:11 -0400

Greetings COEIT Faculty and Staff,

I want to thank you for all who participated and supported our inaugural COEIT Celebration. If you were not able to attend I hope you will enjoy reading about some of our events for the day. Sunday, May 6 was a day to Celebrate the College of Engineering and Information Technology. From faculty and staff awards to student honors and recognition we have a lot to celebrate. It was also a time for student organizations, capstone students, departments and programs to let us all know more about their activities. Not only did we get to celebrate, we also had some great food and other fun activities. We are happy to say that we had 634 RSVPs for our event, this includes 180 graduation candidates, 255 guests, other students 123, faculty, staff and capstone guests 76.

Another first for us was the announcement of College-level faculty and staff awards:

COEIT Faculty Awards

2018 Early career Faculty Excellence Award - Dr. Christopher Hennigan, Department of Chemical Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
2018 Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award - Dr. Gunes Koru, Department of Information Systems
2018 Excellence in Teaching Award - Dr. E.F. Charles LaBerge, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

COEIT Staff Awards for Superior Service

Ms. Cindy Lamothe, Ms. Gina Fischer and Mr. Victor Fulda.

Victor also received the 2017-2018 Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award for Outstanding Non-Exempt Staff.

Our college was also well represented in the Non-Exempt Employee of the Quarter, 2 quarters in a row. Congratulations to Mr. Chuck Smithson, awarded in the 1st quarter, and to Ms. Kathy Suess, awarded in the 2nd quarter.

This was also an opportunity to recognize our Undergraduate Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants as well as our faculty advisors and officers of student clubs and organizations. Many of the students in our scholars and affiliates programs were also in attendance and we were able to recognize these students.

On a sad note we will be saying goodbye to Dr. Marie desJardins and Dr. Penny Rheingans who will be leaving to pursue leadership opportunities at other institutions. We are very grateful for their contributions to the Departments and to the UMBC community and they were recognized by the audience at the celebration.

Best wishes as you finish up the semester!!

Keith Bowman

PS. A special thanks to Cathy Bielawski for her incredible leadership on this event and all of our awesome volunteers- you all did an amazing job!

College of Engineering and Information Technology,

UMBC-The University of Maryland, Baltimore County