Kyritsis Receives Rose Award

Professor Dimitri Kyritsis has received the 2008 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Engineering. He has appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students every semester he has taught since joining the department in 2002. In addition to outstanding classroom teaching, he has been an excellent mentor to undergraduate students as a faculty adviser to five Senior Design Project teams. He also regularly gives undergraduates the opportunity to work with him as laboratory assistants, and he gives them meaningful assignments. In 2005, he was successfully nominated by undergraduate students for the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising. Students successfully nominated him for the Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, and he also received the 2007 Two Year Effective Teaching Award from the MechSE alumni board.