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Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Philip Buriak has been involved with University of Illinois students since 1988 as a teacher, adviser, and mentor. His teaching philosophy is to bring relevance, active learning, problem-solving strategies, higher-order thinking skills, and independent learning to the courses he teaches. These aspects, plus his enthusiasm and clear presentation style, have led his students to place him on the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent" for each of the 20 semesters he has taught. Buriak’s charge upon joining the college’s faculty was to rebuild the agricultural mechanization program. While elevating and transforming the curriculum to Technical Systems Management (TSM), he more than tripled the enrollment of majors. In recognition of his teaching skills, the Agricultural Engineering Department awarded its Outstanding Teaching Award to Buriak in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996, winning each year he was eligible. Buriak’s involvement doesn’t stop outside the classroom. He personally counsels every TSM major on course selection, personal and professional development, and on job placement. Based on his outstanding mentoring, the College of ACES awarded him the Karl E. Gardner Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser Award in 1995. |
