Gupta Recipient of 2019 Lane Outstanding Teaching Award

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2019 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award—Dr. Rachana Gupta. The Lane Award recognizes excellence in teaching or educational leadership in the department.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2019 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award—Dr. Rachana Gupta. The Lane Award recognizes excellence in teaching or educational leadership in the department.

Gupta is a Associate Teaching Professor in the ECE Department. She is the Associate Director of the ECE Senior Design Program, and previously served as the Interim Director. She has taught Senior Design since 2011, and also directed the ECE Summer Camp for high school students in 2013-15. She has created and taught a graduate-level course in Python programming and an undergraduate course on Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP).

According to one of her former students, “Ultimately her students have the opportunity to leave her class with industry contacts, valuable experience on how to work in a professional setting, and the ability to apply their technical skills to solve a real‐world problem.”

Another explained, “If the purpose of an engineering program is to turn out engineers, then her exacting style and her rapt attention to performance and excellence results in extracting exactly what the industry needs in new college graduates – solid performers.”