Kyritsis wins MechSE’s two-year teaching award

Associate Professor Dimitrios Kyritsis has been named the winner of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering’s Two-Year Effective Teaching Award for 2012. The award is voted on by former students to recognize truly outstanding teaching in the department.

"I am honored by the vote of our alumni – moments like this are the best form of reward our profession has to offer," Kyritsis said. "If anything is accomplished, it is due to the motivation I draw from the enthusiasm and intellectual pursuits of our students. The award really belongs to them."

For more than 20 years the MechSE Alumni Board has sponsored two Effective Teaching Awards. The awards were established so that alumni two and five years into their professional careers might have the opportunity to honor faculty members whose teaching they now perceive as having had the greatest impact on their careers.