Purdue College of Engineering names four NE professors among its Outstanding Engineering Teachers for spring 2026.
The Purdue School of Nuclear Engineering is proud to recognize Stylianos Chatzidakis, Ahmed Hassanein, Seungjin Kim, and Lefteri Tsoukalas for being named among the Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Engineering Teachers – Spring 2026.
This distinction recognizes faculty who achieved top teaching evaluation scores, reflecting their commitment to instructional excellence and student success.
The College of Engineering recognized faculty, lecturers and other staff for outstanding dedication to teaching students in a Purdue Exponent ad on March 2. For the recognition, individual teacher averages were calculated based on six CIE teacher evaluation survey questions related to instructor effectiveness on a five-point scale in undergraduate or graduate classes in engineering with enrollments of 10 and above and 50% or higher response rates. Instructors with 75 percentile or higher evaluation scores in four groups — small, medium, large and very large courses — were recognized.