Concordia University CCSL Outstanding Contribution Award
2014

Summer, 2014

*Extracted from citation of award ceremony

Dr. Aiman Hanna
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Engineering and Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award 2013

“ A university is built on students and for students. Take students out   of   this equation, and nothing will remain. ”: This is one of the famous statements of Dr. Hanna, which he has been iterating and emphasising for more than twenty three years of teaching at Concordia University.

Dr. Aiman Hanna has taught more than one hundred courses during the last twenty years. He has taught for both the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; he has covered a wide variety of topics; and he has proposed new courses. Dr. Hanna has won three previous awards for teaching excellence and for his outstanding contribution to the quality of education at Concordia University and for his contribution to students' life and educational experience.

Throughout his teaching career, Dr. Hanna has obtained extremely outstanding responses from students. Coming to Concordia from industry, he takes Concordia's slogan: “ Real Education for the Real World” very seriously. He motivates students by discussing real problems and linking their solutions to course material. Dr. Hanna keeps up-to-date with educational technology and was one of the first professors in the Faculty to provide special web pages for each of his courses. Today, he makes extensive use of the vast resources of the internet, searching for the most relevant and high-quality information available. Dedicated to the improvement of not only his own teaching, but also of teaching practices in general, Dr. Hanna has participated in committees and workshops for both the Faculty and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Services. He has served as a mentor for part-time instructors and junior faculty members. Dr. Hanna's research is concerned with computer security; one of the most important an indisputably subjects today.

It is appropriate to conclude this brief survey of Dr. Aiman Hanna's achievements at Concordia with his own words: he is the people's professor and the people's colleague. We thank you Dr. Hanna for all the respect, the encouragements, and the tremendous care that you have constantly given to the students of Concordia University.