Internationally recognized for cutting-edge research, Cornell Engineering can also point to award-winning teaching that has helped to place it among the top engineering programs in the world. Each year the college selects its best teachers to be honored with awards for excellence in teaching and advising. The university also recognizes good teaching with the annual Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships. Thirty percent of that elite Cornell group are members of the Engineering faculty.

2015
Rajit Manohar, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2014
Ashim Datta, professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering

2009
John A. Muckstadt, the Acheson-Laibe Professor of Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering

2008
Richard Rand, professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.

2007
Albert R. George, the J.F. Carr Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2005
Anthony Ingraffea, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering

2004
T. Michael Duncan, Chemical and Biomolecular  
C. Richard Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2003
Louis D. Albright, Biological and Environmental Engineering

2001
Stephen L. Sass, Materials Sciences and Engineering

2000
Kenneth C. Hover, Civil and Environmental Engineering

1999
Charles H.K. Williamson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

1998
Michael C. Kelley, James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

1997
Clifford R. Pollock, Ilda and Charles Lee Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

1996
Daniel P. Huttenlocher, John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science, and Business, Computer Science

1995
David Gries, Computer Science

1993
Mary J. Sansalone, Civil and Environmental Engineering