Gihan Jayatilaka : Blog : Prof. Roshan Ragel wins Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award 2025

I will finish writing this article at some point. This is a high level overview of what I will do. Also, if you happen to have the time to write this article, let me know! I will stop writing this and link this page to your URL.

• What is IEEE?
• What is the "Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award"?
• A brief account of life and career of RR. This will most probably be copied from his web page.
• A link to all the docs that went into the nomination of and choosing RR for the award.
• An interview with RR, where we talk about the lessons learnt during these activities. If some activity is not listed in the nomination docs, we will revisit it here. Activities from my memory
  
  1. When it comes to introductory courses (GP106) providing every student with a printed booklet covering the full course
  2. Writing all the code on screen without code completion (or starting from skeleton code) for introductopry courses GP106, CO222
  3. Remembering student's names and faces by downloading moodle pictures
  4. Moodle usage analysis research with that woman in the CE 2nd floor IT center office (look up her name, she used to send emails for moodle downtime)
  5. Pair programming for CO222
  6. "Everyone should/can get an A. University is not a sorting mechanism for recruiters"
  7. Not following up on projects when students decide to drop them silently.
  8. The whole thing with popularizing zoom and moodle during COVID
  9. Free internet
  10. Free online courses
  11. Online assesments, proctoring
  12. Startups around online assesments
  13. Giving away responsibilities to new staff members
  14. Keeping UNSW in the loop all this time for Pera FYPs
• Links to presentations/guidelines written by RR.
• If RR brings up AI4education, ask the general questions. If not, leave it because it is too early to talk about "lessons learnt" from that front.
• We can make it fun by talking about these topics
  
  1. Actually nope. Let us stay within the realm of "lessons learnt while doing all these things that were considered to the award.".