In 1985 he won Stanford's Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education (click here to see the text). In 1986 he won the Distinguished Advisor Award for Stanford's School of Engineering (click here to see the text). Stuart's most lasting accomplishment at Stanford was the creation of the undergraduate section leader program to support introductory CS classes known as the cs198 program.
At the University of Arizona Stuart has created a similar undergraduate section leader program called cs391. He plans to write a paper for SIGCSE 2001 describing the program. In 1998 he won the University of Arizona's College of Science Distinguished Teaching Award.