For the academic year of 2022/2023, Macau University of Science and Technology conferred the annual Teaching Excellence Award to one teacher in recognition of his outstanding teaching performance. This year’s winner is Assistant Professor Chen Yue from the School of Business. The annual Teaching Excellence Award is made to honor and award teachers for their excellent teaching performance, ever-improving teaching standards, and significant contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in the University; it also provides incentive and encouragement for newly joined faculty members.
For the academic year of 2022/2023, Macau University of Science and Technology conferred the annual Teaching Excellence Award to one teacher in recognition of his outstanding teaching performance. This year’s winner is Assistant Professor Chen Yue from the School of Business. The annual Teaching Excellence Award is made to honor and award teachers for their excellent teaching performance, ever-improving teaching standards, and significant contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in the University; it also provides incentive and encouragement for newly joined faculty members.
Winner of the 2022/2023 Teaching Excellence Award: Assistant Professor Chen Yue
Assistant Professor Chen Yue has been teaching at Macau University of Science and Technology since September 2020, covering the undergraduate and postgraduate subjects of Operations Management, Omnichannel Practice & Sustainability, Business Optimization Theory, and Supply Chain Management. He has long been committed to research in the fields of fashion industry management, coordination and optimization in supply chains, sustainable supply chain management, and the application of blockchain technology. Some of his research papers are published in the core collection of SCI/SSCI journals.
Following the teaching ideas of ‘Experiencing consolidates learning. Practicing inspires critical thinking.’, Assistant Professor Chen employs immersive teaching approaches to create a classroom atmosphere that encourages interacting and sharing, which effectively stimulates students’ learning enthusiasm and class involvement. With his guidance and instructions, students are enlightened to digest the knowledge and accumulate insights with critical thinking and in-depth understanding. In addition, he incorporates his extensive industry experience into the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching systems to lead the students to integrate business academic knowledge with updated industrial practice, nurture the students to better understand the underlying logic of business models, and instruct the students to formulate a future development plan. It greatly helps the students at different stages to gain knowledge and grow. He also guided the students to participate in business contests. The teams supervised by him won the second runner-up prize in the “Competition for Macao Tertiary Institutions on Innovative Business Plans for Markets 2023” and the first prize of the Macao division in the “13th National Innovation/Creativity/Entrepreneurship Business Contest”.
The assessment process for the Teaching Excellence Award is rigorous. The Teaching Excellence Award Committee first conducts a preliminary review of all the nominated teachers and produces a shortlist of teachers to go forward. The committee members then complete a comprehensive review of the candidates in terms of their teaching performance, teaching attitude, and teaching portfolios, plus a general assessment in the form of class observations, interviews, and a review of students’ evaluation feedback. Finally, the committee meets and deliberates, and decides by voting.
Since the Teaching Excellence Award was established in 2008, altogether 45 teachers have been awarded over the years. Their names are inscribed on the Honors Board for permanent display. This speaks of the great importance attached to the quality of teachers and teaching by the University, as well as its commitment to offering the best quality education for the students.
