Professor Paul Kelly from the Department of Computing has just been awarded a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in Engineering Education.

The award recognises and rewards individuals who are renowned for their exceptional teaching qualities and who make a significant contribution to the learning achievements in the Faculty.

It celebrates and disseminates the achievements of staff who are inspirational teachers and make a significant impact on undergraduate teaching and learning.

Below is Paul's citation written by Professor Jeff Magee PhD FBCS FCGI Principal, Faculty of Engineering.

AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION 2013

CITATION

Paul Kelly is a hero to many Computing students. Every year his SOLE comments include statements such as ‘Paul Kelly is a stellar example of a lecturer. He is extremely engaged with the material and loves answering.” and “This is probably the best lecturer Imperial has.” Paul teaches two really tough courses: Advanced Computer Architectures and Compilers.  ACA is about how the latest computers are designed and the implications of those design decisions on key metrics such as performance and power usage. Compilers is a compulsory second year course, with a large lab to implement a programming language based on Alice in Wonderland. In addition to his courses, Paul devised our required Research Seminar Course for MRes and PhD students to learn to read research papers critically, runs our yearly Games and Media event which attracts the stars of the Games Development world to Imperial, and is our UROP champion.

London, 11^th June 2013

Well done Paul!