Professor Mark Lundstrom has been awarded the 2018 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for the inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest, with the citation "for creating a global online community for graduate education in nanotechnology as well as teaching, inspiring, and mentoring graduate students".

The Graduate Teaching Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and renamed in honor of Leon K. Kirchmayer in 2002. Dr. Kirchmayer was well known and revered throughout the world for his commitment to students and education.

This award honors teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines. It consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.