In 1995, the William T. Kemper Foundation established a Fellowship, which receives matching funds from KU Endowment, that recognizes excellence in teaching and leadership. Each fall 20 outstanding KU educators are surprised with W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence and $5,000 checks. A committee of KU students, faculty, and alumni selects the Fellows. EECS Professors Perry Alexander, Chris Allen, Susan Gauch (now the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas), Jerzy Gryzmala-Busse, David Petr, and Jim Stiles have won Kemper Fellowships.
Professor Jim Stiles is the latest
EECS professor to receive the Kemper Award for excellence in teaching. He teaches Electromagnetics,
Electronic Circuits, Microwave Engineering, and Radio and Radar Systems. His research interests
include radar remote sensing, polarimetics, interferometic radar, and super-resolution radar.
In 2000 he was awarded both the Harry Talley and the Excellence in Teaching awards. The picture
shows Professor Stiles being congratulated for his 2007 Kemper Award. He has been at KU since 1996.
EECS Professor
David Petr
teaches circuits analysis and signals and systems courses.
His research interests include network traffic modeling
and performance analysis.
In the picture, Professor Petr receives the giant check
that accompanies the Kemper Award, which he received in 2005.
Since joining the University in 1990,
Petr’s teaching honors include the
Harry Talley award in 2003
and the
John E. Sharp and Winifred E. Sharp Teaching Professorship in 2000.
Since developing one of the original
Internet “metasearch” engines in 1993,
EECS Professor
Susan Gauch
has garnered
international recognition for her online
information retrieval research.
While at KU she taught courses in
information retrieval and databases.
She won her Kemper in 2004,
after 11 years at the University.
She is pictured being congratulated for her honor.
EECS Professor
Jerzy Gryzmala-Busse
received his Kemper,
which he is holding in the picture, in 2004.
Professor Gryzmala-Busse teaches computer architecture,
expert systems, and data mining courses.
His research interests include the above along
with knowledge discovery, machine learning expert systems,
and rough set theory.
He joined KU in 1980.
EECS Professor
Perry Alexander
teaches programming languages and digital systems design courses.
Since arriving at KU in 1999,
Alexander has received the
Harry Talley Award in 2005 and 2002
and the
ASEE Midwest Region Outstanding Educator Award in 2003.
Formal modeling, language semantics, systems-level design,
and component retrieval are among Professor Alexander’s
research interests.
He is pictured with Chancellor Hemenway who is
presenting Alexander with his
2003 Kemper Award.
EECS Professor
Chris Allen
has garnered several teaching awards.
Most recently, he was awarded the
Sharp Teaching Professorship in 2002.
Along with his Kemper Award in 2001,
Allen also earned the
Ned N. Fleming Trust Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Allen teaches circuit design,
radar and remote sensing courses.
Microwave remote sensing, radar design and analysis,
fiber-optic communication systems,
and photonic systems and devices are
among his primary research interests.
Professor Allen has been at KU since 1994.
