Athene prize for good teaching

In recognition of academic teaching at the TU Darmstadt, the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation awarded the Athene Prizes on 27 November 2019. The awards are endowed with a total of 46,000 Euros. Traditionally, their presentation marks the ceremonial conclusion of the Teaching Day, which is dedicated to current issues and challenges in the field of studies and teaching.

The Athene Prizes are intended to pay special tribute to the importance of university teaching at TU Darmstadt. To this end, each department awards an Athens Department Prize, from which the Athene Main Prize is then selected.

Special Award Digital Teaching - Prof. Rüppel and Prof. Koenders

Group picture prize winner

Prof. Lehmann faculty prize

The special Digital Teaching Award of 5,000 Euros was awarded to the Institute for Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering (iib) and the Institute of Construction and Building Materials(WiB) with the initiators Professor Uwe Rüppel, Professor Eddie Koenders, Christian Eller, M.Sc., Michael Disser, B.Sc, Pascal Mosler, M.Sc., Shifan Zhan, M.Sc. and Christoph Mankel, M.Sc. (all from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) for the project “VR4Teach” as a virtual reality platform for the collaborative visualisation of complex teaching content by means of their own smartphones, tablets or laptops.

The Prize

Since 2010, the Athene Prize for Good Teaching has been awarded annually to individuals, groups of people or organisational units of a department or study area.

Nominations for the prize refer to best practice models and may honour concepts, measures, projects, courses, personal commitment, procedures or other approaches in the field of teaching. Individuals or groups from all qualification levels – from students to professors – may be nominated.

The Athene Prizes for Good Teaching are endowed with a total of 46,000 euros. One prize is awarded in each of the faculties, and one main prize is awarded from all the faculty prizes. For the special prizes, the Senate Committee for Teaching at the TU Darmstadt forms the central jury under the direction of the Vice President for Teaching.

All prizes honour academic teaching at the TU Darmstadt. The award ceremonies form the ceremonial conclusion on Teaching Day at the TU Darmstadt, which is dedicated to current issues and challenges in the field of study and teaching.

Read the entire article, which was published on the TU Darmstadt website, here.

https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_245312.de.jsp

The department prize, endowed with 2,000 euros, was awarded:

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Katharina Bensing, Steve Borchardt and Professor Boris Lehmann for their commitment to the planning, development and implementation of the course “Writing and Evaluation of Scientific Articles” and the associated work in supervision.