Staff Excellence & Service Award Recipients
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May 16, 2013
Executive Assistant Sandy Taylor was honored in a ceremony on Tuesday, May 14 as a recipient of one of the 2013 Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards, which recognizes selected non-teaching personnel who have distinguished themselves and who have contributed significantly to the effectiveness of the teaching, advising, counseling and research efforts of the Cockrell School.
Taylor joined UT Austin staff in September of 1988 and has dedicated more than 20 years of service to the Cockrell School of Engineering. She transitioned to UT PGE in 2010 to work closely with Chair Tad Patzek and oversee department staff. This is her second time receiving a Staff Excellence Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
"To have my efforts recognized for making the UT PGE team function smoothly and efficiently is great," said Taylor. "I got the award, but it would not have been possible without the excellence of my staff."
In a separate ceremony four UT Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (PGE)/Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (CPGE) staff members were presented with service awards on Monday, May 6 honoring their hard work and commitment to the department and center for at least a decade.
Moving from the College of Communications to CPGE in April 2003, Rey Casanova, senior administrative associate, received his 10-year certificate. In 2007, Casanova was both promoted to Senior Administrative Assistant and received the annual Staff Excellence Award.
Jin Lee, administrative associate, also received her 10-year certificate. Beginning as a student assistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Office, Lee joined CPGE in 2008 after working for the African & African American Studies Department since 2002.
Receiving his 15-year certificate, Senior Administrative Associate John Winn started his career at UT Austin in the Instructional Media Lab in 1997, which later became the Faculty Innovation Center, both part of the Cockrell School of Engineering. Winn received the “Outstanding Employee Award” in 2003 for the engineering Dean’s staff, and joined the PGE department last June.
Arletta Tompkins, academic advising coordinator, received her 20-year certificate. After moving to Austin in 1983, she worked at UT Austin as the Director of Career Services in the Law School and joined UT PGE in 2001 as the beloved department "mom" to undergraduate students.
