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Smits Awarded President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Professor and Departmental Chair Alexander Smits was recognized by receiving a President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Commencement ceremonies on 5 June 2007.
As noted in the citation: "He has supervised 27 Ph.D. and 21 MSE students and 14 postdoctoral researchers, who now participate in leading academic and industrial research groups around the world." "Working in the Smits group was an inspirational experience," wrote one former graduate student. "He affords his students a great freedom to explore fluid mechanics and begin to understand the research process, while sharing his extensive experience in a way that helps one pull the pieces of the field together."
June 30, 2006