Danny Francis, a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering, has received the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Francis has served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering as well as in the First-Year Engineering program. For CE 106 (Computer Graphics and Communication), Francis completed each of the assignments the students had to complete in order to better understand where they might encounter problems. For EGR 103, Francis designed and constructed a compression tester that was used by all students in the class during their first group project. He is advised by associate professor Sebastian Bryson.