This year’s Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching has been presented to Professor Erik Demaine. Demaine is well-known for his creative interdisciplinary work spanning algorithms, art, and origami. “Professor Demaine’s passion for teaching, pedagogical creativity, and commitment to transforming our curriculum is inspiring,” says Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Demaine is a proponent of research done in “supercollaboration,” a non-hierarchal style in which professors and students come together as peers to investigate research questions of…
