Sept. 20, 2013
Linda Espeut, Karen Irving, Jayne Leake, Jaro Pristupa and Joe Wong, all staff members in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, have been recognized with a 2013 Excellence Through Innovation Award from University of Toronto.
The five-member team is responsible for creating and maintaining Magellan, a web-based graphical user interface with underlying database. Magellan was developed to combine information from ROSI/NGSIS, ECE’s database of certified professional instructors, and faculty teaching loads. The program helps audit each student’s progress, track faculty’s professional certification, assists with undergraduate teaching assignments and generate offer letters to stipend instructors and teaching assistants, as well as teaching assignment letters to faculty as required by the workload policy.
U of T’s Excellence Through Innovation Award recognizes the contributions of administrative staff in advancing the University’s strategic objectives, encouraging administrative innovation and providing a platform for sharing best practices.
“These awards acknowledge the essential role played by our staff in providing innovative excellence to advance the University’s research and teaching mandates, as well as the Faculty’s mandate to remain Canada’s leading engineering school,” said Cristina Amon, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. “On behalf of the Faculty, I congratulate the winners and thank all our staff for their tremendous contributions.”
The team received its award Oct. 23, 2013 at a reception hosted at U of T President Naylor’s residence in Rosedale.
Congratulations to the Magellan Team!
More information:
Marit Mitchell
Senior Communications Officer
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of
Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; marit.mitchell@utoronto.ca