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February 17, 2012

Dr. Ravi Ravindran receives Chancellor's Award of Distinction

Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Ravi Ravindran has received the Ryerson Chancellor's Award of Distinction. This award recognizes a Ryerson educator who has demonstrated a life-long career commitment to teaching and learning excellence through an outstanding and sustained record of educational leadership.

Dr. Ravindran's passion for teaching is reflected by his enthusiasm and extraordinary ability to motivate and energize his students. His teaching philosophy is one of total engagement, virtually transporting students to the real world, synthesizing ideas, analysis, and critical thinking, enabling problem solving and development of processes and products. Based on his own real-world experience and sabbaticals at the MIT and IIT, he encourages his students to be unconventional in their thinking. For Dr. Ravindran, the learning process and the student-professor interaction permeates the classroom, office, laboratories, tutorials, projects, coffee shops, and throughout the career of the student.