The winners are
CreaTe – Douwe Dresscher
Applied Mathematics – AMEP 2018 – Marc Uetz
Business and IT/ Technical Computer Science – IDEA Award – Doina Bucur
Electrical Engineering – VAUXHALL Award – Luuk Spreeuwers
The study associations wrote about the following award winners.
Marc Uetz is the winner of AMEP 2018 - Abacus
Friday February 9, the AMEP (Applied Mathematics Educational Prize) took place and we are happy to announce Mark Uetz as the great winner! Congratulations! He will join the competition for being the best teacher of the university, the UTEA (University of Twente Education Award). Wish him luck!
IDEA AWARDS – BUSINESS & IT + TECHNICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE - InterActief
At the drink at 27th of March, the winners of the Inter-Actief Decentralized Education Awards were announced. After the Education Committee received many nominations from both TCS and BIT students, three teachers: Harry Aarts, Doina Bucur and Jair Santanna had the opportunity to present something about passion at the Inter-Actief Decentralized Education Awards lunch lecture of the 19th of March.
We started with Harry, being a mathematician, who couldn’t help himself to tell us something about solving puzzles using mathematics. Moreover, he also opened his personal life to us by showing a few pictures of his children playing with a Rubik's cube (and destroying it as a future mathematician). Then we got Doina who told us a bit about her hobby – logic and data. She taught us how to recognize and track bad science. It is always useful to get to know some mistakes in logical assumptions students often make, isn’t it? Finally, we had Jair who is really passionate about the topic of DDoS attacks in general and booters in specific. Therefore, we had a practical lesson of how easy it is to attack a server and why is it a big problem currently on the Internet.
At the IDEA awards drink on 27th of March, the nominated teachers were called in front of the room in order to receive their prizes: Doina Bucur took the 1st prize, Harry Aarts the 2nd and Jair Santanna the 3rd.
About Doina, her students said that she shows love and enthusiasm for her subject; that she keeps a good balance between theory, practice and research; that her courses are very well organized, including very short grading times; and that she is very approachable. Harry is argued to be the best mathematics teacher who shows great motivation to teach and who explains topics very well and in an easily-understandable way. Jair is called a great guy who is always cheerful when explaining his subject. A student even voluntarily attending one of his lectures. Moreover, the atmosphere was inspiring and “famous” teachers such Klaas Sikkel, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Arend Rensink applauded along with students from TCS and BIT. In the end, all three nominated teachers are challenged to play a game of twister with our Officer of Educational Affairs, Lindsay Kempen. Harry Aarts won the game.
The lunch lecture, as well as the IDEA drink, were a success in showing our gratitude towards the professors, as well as inspiring the students they teach every day.
VAUXHALL AWARD – ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - Scintilla
On April 28th, the educational award of Electrical Engineering – the Valuable Award for the University's most eXperienced, Helpful, Appealing and Leading Lecturers – has been awarded during a drink. After a voting round and several jury interviews the winner was selected out of the six nominated lecturers which are stated below.
Raymond Veldhuis
Mathieu Odijk
Luuk Spreeuwers
Gjerrit Meinsma
Scintilla congratulates all the nominated teachers.
In the end Luuk Spreeuwers had the honour to receive the educational award of Electrical Engineering. Luuk Spreeuwers is mainly known for his course on Circuit Analysis in the first year of the bachelor.
What makes Luuk special is that he is always enthusiastic, approachable and open for questions. Also his way of communicating with the students was appreciated. This was beneficial for the relation with the students and Luuk. Which in turn gave now and then motivation and energy to the students in the lecture/project room.
Another special thing that Luuk Spreeuwers does is his speech and the beginning and the end of the project. Also his old fashioned teaching stick was something memorable. One more thing that is special about Luuk is his recipe book in which all the steps are described on how to do, for example, source transformations. The students experience this in a positive and cheerful way, which brought more energy to the overall atmosphere.
E.T.S.V. Scintilla wishes Luuk Spreeuwers good luck at the Central Education Prize (COP)!
A small summary of the event itself
This year was a little bit different from the other years. Now there were some students who were willing to make a caricature of the nominated teachers. This was done via role play and some extra attributes to make the resemble as good as possible. After these small presentations the winner was announced and all the nominated teachers get a little present as well. Then the teachers stayed for a little longer to talk to the students. The event ended around 21.45 hrs.
