Teacher of the Year 2011 is to be Found at DTU Management Engineering
Assistant professor Per Richard Hansen from DTU Management Engineering has been chosen as teacher of the year at Master level at DTU. He has been chosen for his teaching in the course “Management Concepts and Change”. It is the DTU student association “Polytechnical Association” that chooses who is to receive this great honour and as such it is the students who choose the winner.
When asked why the choice for teacher of the year fell upon Per Richard Hansen, the chairman for Polytechnical Association, Aske Nudam Guldberg, explains “His students especially praise him for his abilities to engage students and involve them in his teaching as well as his usage of IT when communicating with the students. He do this be always being online at Skype so the students can reach him whereever they are.”
Some of Per Richard Hansen’s international students wrote that he supports the students in their academic activities by providing propositions and recommendations that raise the level of their work. Additionally, he has the ability to raise the academic level within his class.
Per Richard Hansen has taught this course for five years and during the entire period he has supervised many Master’s students regarding their thesis where topics was found within the area of management and engineering design as well as knowledge intensive work. Additionally to teaching at DTU, Per Richard Hansen has been a guest professor at Lund University in Sweden.
Per Richard Hansen is MSc in Engineering from DTU in 1999. After his graduation he was employed as a research assistant until he began his PhD in 2000. He has previously worked for IBM, Nokia and Ramboll Management Consulting and has for the past five years been employed at DTU Management as an assistant professor.
Per Richard Hansen’s passion for great teaching shines through in his research as he through a longer period of time has worked with a new empirical anchored theory of learning. Additionally to learning, his primary research area lies within management of knowledge intensive work where he has worked with themes as narratives, identity work and professionalism, motivation, knowledge, cooperation and group relations as well as change and stability.
If you are interested in learning more about Per Richard Hansen's teaching methods, you are welcome to contact him on 45 25 60 71 or via email prh@man.dtu.dk