Professor Narayana R. AluruNarayana R. Aluru, Kritzer Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.
Written by By William Bowman
Professor Narayana R. Aluru
Narayana R. Aluru, Kritzer Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.
This prestigious teaching award is given annually to a faculty member or graduate teaching assistant who exemplifies outstanding teaching ability in the College of Engineering. Professor Aluru will be officially honored at the College of Engineering Faculty Awards Ceremony April 23 in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications auditorium.
"As a teacher and advisor, Professor Aluru inspires excellence in his students, many of whom also have won prestigious awards and gone on to careers in academic research," MechSE Department Head Placid Ferriera said.
Professor Aluru received his PhD in Civil and Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1995, after getting his M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his B.S. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. After serving as a postdoctoral associate at MIT from 1995 through 1997, he came to Illinois in January 1998 as an affiliate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Computational Science and Engineering Program. He has been with MechSE since 2004.
He has been included on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students five times. In his research, Professor Aluru studies problems at the crossroads of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, and chemical engineering.