Award for Teaching Excellence

Dr. Scott Goldsborough

Dr. Scott Goldsborough, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has recently been named a recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineers International Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. 

The award, established in 1953, recognizes outstanding engineering educators and offers them the opportunity to meet and exchange views with practicing engineers at the annual SAE World Congress.  Recipients are selected on the basis of their academic training, contributions to teaching and research, and participation in extracurricular student activities.  Faculty must have served for at least three, but less than ten years.

Dr. Goldsborough is also a past recipient of SAE’s prestigious Harry L. Horning Memorial Award which honors outstanding research in the area of mutual adaptation of fuels and internal combustion (IC) engines.  This recent accolade thus makes him one of only four individuals ever to have received both awards.

Joining Marquette in the fall of 2003, Dr. Goldsborough conducts research focused on internal combustion engine efficiency and emissions, including improved chemical kinetic models for conventional and alternative fuels, simulation of IC engine processes and the development of novel IC engine configurations.  He also is a co-director of the College of Engineering’s NSF-sponsored Cluster Computing Facility.

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Dr. Goldsborough is the faculty advisor for Marquette’s Human Powered Vehicle design and race teams.  These student teams have consistently placed well at ASME’s National Competition, with the 2007-8 team finishing 3rd overall in the East Coast Division.

Dr. Goldsborough joins fellow Marquette Teetor award recipients Drs. John Borg, Mark Nagurka and Joseph Schimmels (mechanical engineering) and Dr. Gerald Harris (biomedical engineering), demonstrating a commitment to excellence in higher education.