This is the Fourth time consecutively in a row that a Faculty from IAP Department is receiving the Award and every year from when the award was established.
On Teacher’s Day (5 September 2024), six faculty members were conferred the IISc Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2024 for their contributions to promoting a deeper and more engaging learning experience for the students. At the panel discussion during the award ceremony, topics ranging from the most important quality for a teacher and teaching techniques to the existing educational structure and impact of technology on learning were discussed.
Prof. Atanu Mohanty’s contribution to teaching at IISc can be best judged by the sheer diversity of courses that he has taught, each many times over. He has offered courses in applied mathematics, computational sciences, electromagnetics and electronics. And in all these areas, his scholarship is acknowledged to be deep, and his colleagues are struck by his sincerity, sympathy for students and clarity of thought. He also regularly offers lab courses for which he personally sets up the demonstrations and experiments. He is always open and available to any student from anywhere in the Institute who seeks his help to either learn a certain topic more deeply or make progress with their thesis research. He generously offers huge amounts of his time and expertise by writing programs, building electronic systems, teaching new mathematical techniques to help research students with their projects. A lesser-known aspect of his work is his practice of generating teaching material: he regularly writes programs to visualize many important and interesting theorems in geometry, and aspects of differential equations, and create webpages for them. These serve as very useful resources to educators and to specialists alike
