Prodeko Teaching Award of the year 2017 to Jari Ylitalo, Peter Kenttä and Tuukka Kostamo
Guest lecturer Jari Ylitalo, and doctoral students/researchers Peter Kenttä and Tuukka Kostamo were voted in Teachers of the year 2017 by Department of Industrial Engineering and Management students. They are responsible for the popular course on leadership, "Leading as Practice”.
The course challenges the students to take a critical stance on taken for granted views on leadership, and enables them to reflect on and elaborate further their personal thinking on leadership and themselves as leaders.
Students comments:
"Interactive discussions and critical touch challenged the students to really reflect on things”
"Genuinely like to teach and share their knowledge to students”.
The price was announced at the annual PRODEKO Spring seminar at Kalastajatorppa 28.4.
Congratulations!
Read more news
Shimmering Success: Aalto Acoustics Lab team wins Best Paper at DAFx 2026
The paper reimagines the popular 'shimmer' effect, known for its ethereal, pitch-shifted ambience
The Business Leader of the Year 2026 is Annikka Hurme, CEO of Valio
In addition, Annika Blomqvist was awarded for promoting entrepreneurship and Sanni Mustonen for her excellent master’s thesis.
EAA Best Paper and Presentation Award for Young Researchers for postdoctoral researcher Thomas Deppisch
The awarded work shows how speech can be made clearer in noisy environments while still preserving directional cues