Sheila S. Hemami, assistant professor and Kodak Term Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, is the winner of the 2000 C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical and computer engineering honor society. The award is given annually to an outstanding young electrical engineering educator.
Selection is made by a national jury of prominent educators.
Hemami is the third Cornell faculty member to receive the award, giving Cornell the most award winners in any single institution. Previous Cornell winners are Clifford Pollock, the I. and C. Lee Professor of Engineering, and C. Richard Johnson, professor of electrical engineering. Pollock nominated Hemami for this year's award. Last year Hemami received honorable mention for the award. Calif. In 1995 she joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at Cornell where she currently directs the Visual Communications Laboratory.