Award Description
This award is presented to a distinguished engineering educator to recognize and to encourage outstanding achievement. This award will normally be given for lifetime achievement, recognizing a sustained career of contributions to pedagogical practice, scholarship, and mentoring that not only caused innovative and substantial changes, but also inspired other educators to new behaviors that benefit students in Chemical Engineering.
About Don Woods
McMaster Engineering’s Tribute Video for Don Woods
Donald R. Wood’s Obituary from The Globe and Mail
Award Info
Award Recipients
2024 Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award Recipient
Washington State University
Former Award Recipients
The Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award is merit-based and nomination-based and, as such, is not necessarily awarded every year. This award was formerly called the Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering Pedagogical Scholarship
| Year | Awardee | Awardee Institution |
| 2002 | James E. Stice | University of Texas |
| 2003 | Richard M. Felder | North Carolina State University |
| 2004 | Phillip C. Wankat | Purdue University |
| 2005 | H. Scott Fogler | University of Michigan |
| 2007 | John W. Prados | University of Tennessee |
| 2008 | Klaus D. Timmerhaus | University of Colorado- Boulder |
| 2009 | T. W. Fraser Russell | University of Delaware |
| 2011 | Ronald L. Miller | Colorado School of Mines |
| 2012 | John Prausnitz | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2013 | Ronald W. Rousseau | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2014 | Morton Denn | The City College of New York |
| 2017 | John Falconer | University of Colorado |
| 2019 | Joseph Shaeiwitz | Auburn University |
| 2021 | Taryn Bayles | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2021 | Milo Koretsky | Oregon State University |
| 2024 | Bernard Van Wie | Washington State University |