Prodeko Teaching Award of the year 2016 to Ruth Kaila
D.Sc. (Tech.), post doc researcher Ruth Kaila was voted Teacher of the year 2016 by DIEM students.
Ruth is responsible for the popular courses Financial Engineering I and II. She is also in the teacher in charge of the course Tuotantotalous 2.
Students comments:
"Genuinely likes to teach and make students learn".
"Ruth teaches and organizes her courses in a way that makes them easy to complete and aims at learning. She always tries to help and offers help even outside the course."
Over the years Ruth has tutored over 50 students in their Bachelor and Master's theses.
Congratulations!
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