Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching
The Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in 1990 by the School of Engineering to recognize outstanding contributions to undergraduate education by members of its faculty.
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Amar Bose was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1929. He has had close ties with MIT since coming to the Institute as an undergraduate in the late 1940s. He earned an S.B. and an S.M. in electrical engineering in 1952 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in the same field in 1956. While teaching at MIT in the 1950s, he developed and cultivated a strong interest in sound systems, which led to nighttime research in labs such as Building 20’s anechoic chamber. In 1964, Professor Bose and five former students went into the business of developing and manufacturing quality high-fidelity equipment. The Bose Corporation in Framingham, Massachusetts, has been a leader in sound-related research and development ever since.
Past Award Recipients
2023
- Professor Will Tisdale, Chemical Engineering
2022
- Professor Michael Short, Nuclear Science and Engineering
2021
- Elsa Olivetti, Materials Science and Engineering
2020
- Erik Demaine, EECS
2019
- Professor Jacob White, EECS
2018
- Professor Srini Devadas, EECS
2017
- Professor Lorna Gibson, Materials Science and Engineering
2016
- Professor Maria Yang ’91, Mechanical Engineering
2015
- Professor Leslie Kaelbling, EECS
2014
- Jeffrey Grossman
2013
- Professor Steven B. Leeb '87, School of Engineering
2012
- Professor William Deen, Department of Chemical Engineering