EPFL honors its best teacher

Fabien Sorin, an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Section, has been awarded the 2017 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. Professor Sorin is unstinting in the time and energy he devotes to his classes, with the perfect blend of demonstrations, theory and experiments. Fabien Sorin may only have been at EPFL for four years, but he's already made his mark. Soon after joining the Materials Science and Engineering Section, the assistant professor took over teaching an introductory course for Bachelor's students in the School of Engineering. The class is quite large - some 300 students - which made it a real challenge for the first-year professor. Professor Sorin has poured his heart into the course, and it shows: his students obtain excellent results and give Sorin very high marks. In recognition, Sorin has been awarded the 2017 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching at EPFL.