Mark Budnik, the Paul H. Brandt Professor of Engineering and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Valparaiso University, will be presented a National Outstanding Teaching Medal from the American Society of Engineering Education.

Budnik was selected from a field of 12 candidates. He will receive the award during the organization’s annual luncheon in June.

Budnik joined Valparaiso University's faculty in 2006 after a 16-year career in the semiconductor field. He was named to the Brandt Professorship in 2013, the same year that he received the university’s excellence in teaching award in recognition of the outstanding faculty-student relationships he has established.

“Professor Budnik is a talented and dedicated educator, and we are deeply grateful for the many incredible ways that he works with our students at Valparaiso University,” said Mark L. Biermann, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Valparaiso University. “This wonderful recognition is certainly well deserved and is a testament to the outstanding quality of Mark’s contributions, in particular, and of Valpo faculty members, in general.”

The ASEE teaching award gives national recognition to an engineering or engineering technology educator for excellence in outstanding classroom performance, contributions to the scholarship of teaching and participation in ASEE Section meetings and local activities. The award consists of an engraved commemorative medallion, certificate and complimentary registration for the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference.