BE Board:Student awards
For current website see begradboard.mit.edu
Intro
Following on from a question raised by Mike Garcia Webb at the BATS seminar 9/14/05, Doug has asked the BE students to suggest a group of awards they would like to see instituted for fellow BE students. What I'd like to do is to get some feedback from the board first on some initial suggestions and by early next week to send a general email out to the BE students requesting their input.
Please add your comments to any of the sections below or create your own sections.
Awards
Academic
- Best thesis defense in a given year
- Best BATS talk
- Most innovative paper with a BE student as first author
- Student chosen BE faculty teaching/mentoring award
- Best retreat poster
- Biggest contribution to improving the BE department
Community
- Best Halloween costume
- Best TGIF idea?
- IM Sports All-Star
- 1st year who spent more time in the basement
- Best BE student sponsored party
Funding
- Industry links
- Individual donations (alums?)
- Division (department) funds.
Anybody have any suggestions of how this works in other schools?
Other
Personally, I think awards for academic things seems a little silly, kind of like the stickers I got in first grade when I finished my homework on time. On a more serious note, if academic oriented awards like the ones listed were to be implemented, who would be voting on them? Students, faculty, anyone affiliated with the division? --Amy Nichols 23:55, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)
