Double Honors for UA Engineering Professor

Assistant Professor Guzin Bayraksan of the UA department of systems and industrial engineering has won the 2012 Five Star Teaching Award.

Bayraksan was teaching a class March 30 in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, when, to her great surprise, in burst a group of people bearing flowers and cookies.

In keeping with tradition, Five Star Teaching Award recipients are kept completely in the dark about their award, and only find out when the Honors College springs it on them.

Making the award were Patricia MacCorquodale, dean of the Honors College, Jeff Goldberg, dean of the College of Engineering, and Lizzie Greene, head of the award's student selection committee and a sophomore in systems and industrial engineering.