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In nominating, Ron Cechner for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Undergraduate
Teaching, one student said the biomedical engineering professor's
course was the one the student "learned the most in all semester."
Cechner, associate director for didactics and master of science
in the anesthesiology program at CWRU and University Hospitals
of Cleveland, is one of two professors to win the Wittke Award
this year. Cechner also won the award in 1984.
Known for giving his home phone number to students and encouraging
them to use it, Cechner teaches undergraduate physiology and biophysics
classes that cover biological control systems, cardiovascular,
renal, respiratory, gastro-intestinal and immune systems. He also
works with the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office.
"This (Cechner's) class is phenomenal. The learning atmosphere
is friendly and constructive . . and learning is cooperative,"
a student nominator wrote. "The class is . . . enjoyable, deal-with-able
and my favorite."
Cechner, who started teaching as an undergraduate, has worked
in the profession for 40 years. He earned his bachelor's degree
in electrical engineering in 1961, his master's in engineering
in 1964 and his doctorate in biomedical engineering in 1967, all
from the Case Institute of Technology.
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