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The Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions to Excellence in Education

Following the 2012 presentation of the Doherty Award, it will be presented again in 2014.

2012 Doherty Award Recipient

stehlikMark Stehlik

Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, School of Computer Science

Mark Stehlik came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1979 as a Ph.D. student in computer science. After his advisor left to go to Bell Labs after his second year in the program, and a teaching position opened up, he left the Ph.D. program to pursue his real passion—teaching. He has been a member of the Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1982 and has taught classes on both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses.

In addition to teaching first- and second-year courses, Mark has overseen the Computer Science Undergraduate program since its inception and has helped graduate over 2,500 alumni, some of whom are now faculty at Carnegie Mellon. He was awarded the Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Advising Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Advising and Mentoring in 1993 and the School of Computer Science Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997. With Janet Stocks, he co-created StuCo, a mechanism for students to teach non-disciplinary courses at Carnegie Mellon. Since its inception in 2002, students have taught over 175 StuCo courses to approximately 5,500 students.

Outside Carnegie Mellon, Mark has been involved with the College Board's Advanced Placement Computer Science program since its inception in 1984 and was the chief reader of the AP Computer Science examination from 1994 to 1999. He has given teacher training workshops and in-service presentations to over 500 teachers (including the CS4Qatar workshops held in 2007 and 2008). Most recently, Professor Stehlik was named as an inaugural member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Educational Policy Committee. He is the co-author of the second edition of "Karel the Robot," an acclaimed introduction to programming and problem solving, and he is co-author of the recent ACM publication "Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age," a state by state study of how current state K-12 math, science and technology standards map into the ACM CS recommended curriculum learning outcomes and how computer science courses count for high school graduation credit.
The Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions to Excellence in Education is given biennially to a member of the university community who has made substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education.

The award is intended to recognize contributions to educational programs in the following ways:
  • development and implementation of innovative educational programs
  • development of widely used curriculum materials, such as text books and educational software
  • establishment of educational programs that bridge the university with the community

Purpose