Six members of the Washington University in St. Louis faculty have been honored with 2015 Emerson “Excellence in Teaching” awards. Olin’s Durai Sundaramoorthi, senior lecturer in management, was one of the awardees recognized at a ceremony Nov. 22 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Clayton.

Durai Sundaramoorthi received his PhD in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) from the University of Texas at Arlington. He performed his doctoral research in the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics (COSMOS). He also has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bharathiar University, India.

Prior to joining Olin, he held full time faculty positions at University of Missouri-Rolla and Missouri Western State University. His research interests include Business Analytics, Data Mining, Optimization, Simulation, and Simulation-based Optimization applied to diverse applications.

The other WashU honorees:

• Janet Duchek, PhD, of Arts & Sciences
• Guy Genin, PhD, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science
• Barbara Kunkel, PhD, of Arts & Sciences
• Joseph Loewenstein, PhD, of Arts & Sciences
• Arny Nadler, of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

The honorees were chosen by their schools or by the university’s Teaching Center for their achievements and dedication to undergraduate teaching.