7/13/2023
Vogiatzsis has won both the IISE Regional Outstanding Advisor Award (North-Central region) and the 2023 ASEE IL/IN Section Outstanding Teacher Award.
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Vogiatzsis has won both the IISE Regional Outstanding Advisor Award (North-Central region) and the 2023 ASEE IL/IN Section Outstanding Teacher Award.
The IISE award recognizes “advisors that have demonstrated substantial contributions to the chapter by supporting officers and student activities through excellence as a teacher, advisor, and mentor”.
The ASEE award “focuses on outstanding classroom performance, recognizes teachers of engineering and engineering technology students and serves as an incentive to make further significant contributions to teaching”. As part of the ASEE award, Vogiatzis will present a keynote at the 2024 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section meeting and will be automatically nominated by the section for the national level ASEE Outstanding Teacher Award for 2024.
Chrysafis Vogiatzis has consistently appeared in the list of instructors ranked as excellent in each of the 7 semesters he's taught since joining ISE in 2019, being ranked as outstanding during 5 of them. In 2020, realizing that students needed more hands-on and active learning opportunities, Chrysafis was a pioneer in ISE by flipping the whole classroom in his sophomore Analysis of Data (IE 300) class and making all material openly available. Chrysafis also proposed, designed, and has been offering an innovative Simulation with Applications class. Finally, his Analysis of Network Data class has grown from 10 students during 2019 to 50 students in 2022 in the graduate program: it has been ranked very highly by graduate students, as evidenced by the increasing number and the number of network analysis and optimization publications that his graduate students have written.
Vogiatzsis has been awarded the 2020 Sharp Outstanding Teaching Award in ISE and his pedagogical research has received awards, most recently the 2022 Best DEI paper award by the ASEE New Engineering Educators Division. He has been working with students with disabilities in proposing new modalities that help them learn better as well as increase their sense of belongingness.
Congratulations, Professor Vogiatzsis!