This year’s InsideIIM’s Professor of the Year at IIM Calcutta goes to Professor Peeyush Mehta! Professor Mehta has already won the “Best Professor in Operations Management” in 21st Dewang Mehta Business School Awards, 2013 and has won the IIT Kanpur senate citation for teaching excellence from 2005 to. 2011. Here's what makes Dr Mehta "the best".
Note - The winner(s) of the InsideIIM Professor of The Year has/have been chosen by current MBA students of a particular campus. The voting started in February 2020, and MBA students nominated their favourite professors here. The professor(s) with the maximum number of votes has/have been declared the winner(s) in 2020!
Meet Dr. Peeyush Mehta - Professor at IIM Calcutta, InsideIIM Professor of The Year In 2020
Dr. Peeyush Mehta is a Professor at IIM Calcutta and teaches the subject Operations management, Manufacturing Strategy and Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the institute.
Professor Mehta, a Mechanical Engineer, was a participant of Fellow in Management (PhD), in Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A) and later became a Research Fellow at Singapore - MIT Alliance Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
Professor Mehta began teaching at IIM Calcutta as an associate professor in 2011, and became a Professor in 2015 and has been associated with the institute for nearly a decade. Before IIM C, he was an associate professor at IIT Kanpur where he got the senate citation for teaching excellence for 6 consecutive years. Therefore, it doesn't come as a surprise that Professor Mehta has swayed the hearts of IIM Calcutta's MBA students and has won this accolade! Read more about Professor Peeyush Mehta here.
Also read - Here's Who IIM Ahmedabad Students Chose As Their Professor of The Year In 2020!
InsideIIM Professor of The Year 2020 - What IIM Calcutta Students Have To Say About Professor Peeyush
“The engaging and lucid manner in which he teaches is amazing. He has the ability to gauge the audience and deliver the content that is understandable easily while covering all the concepts.”
“He gives live and latest examples of firms in class. Covers not only operations concepts but also connects all other disciplines of management. He makes us think about what decisions need to be made for us to think just like future CEOs. What he teaches is very relevant to what should be taught in a b-school. What he teaches is very application and high level based.”
“He has immense industry knowledge, great command on vocabulary with respect to Operations. Any layman can understand Supply Chain Management in 10 classes and fall in love with it.”
Here's what the Professor of The Year series is all about, and why it matters.
The following are professors at IIM Calcutta who just missed out on winning the title of InsideIIM's Professor of The Year in 2020, but are loved by IIM Calcutta students:
Vipul Mathur - “He has a wealth of knowledge owing to his industry experience prior to joining IIM C. He makes his classes so interesting and engrossing. The question paper set by him for the exams is thought-provoking and actually makes you apply the concepts taught by him in real-world apply cations.”
Leena Chatterjee - “Very lucid style of explaining subject matter concepts with special emphasis how can one make blunders while working with data if not using correct methods of analysis.”
Special note - Professor Leena Chatterjee was the
InsideIIM Professor of The Year at IIM Calcutta in 2019!
Rahul Mukherjee - “His way of teaching is very clear and concise. Great energy. Highly patient and pleasant.”
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