The MechSE Two-Year and Five-Year Alumni Effective Teaching Awards are voted on by former undergraduate students - this year, by the classes of 2019 and 2022 - to recognize truly outstanding teaching in the department.
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Hsiao-Wecksler, left, with Department Head Tony Jacobi.
Professors Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler and Sanjiv Sinha are the recipients of this year’s MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Awards. Hsiao-Wecksler received the Two-Year Alumni Effective Teaching Award, and Sinha was named the winner of the Five-Year Alumni Effective Teaching Award.
For nearly 40 years the MechSE Alumni Board has sponsored two Alumni Effective Teaching Awards. The awards were established so that alumni two and five years into their professional careers have the opportunity to honor faculty whose teaching they now perceive as having had the greatest impact on their careers. They are voted on by former undergraduate students – this year, the classes of 2019 and 2022 – to recognize truly outstanding teaching in the department.
Sinha, left, with Jacobi.
In recent years, Hsiao-Wecksler, who is the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor, has taught ME 370 (Mechanical Design I), after leading a team of MechSE faculty through the robust effort nearly a decade ago to revamp the undergraduate design stem courses.
Sinha, who has served as the Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs since 2019, has also been routinely recognized for his excellence in undergraduate advising and his student-faculty collaborations.
The two were recognized at the MechSE Spring Awards Banquet April 19.