The Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA) recognizes excellence in teaching to individual faculty members in the Professional Master of Engineering and Graduate Certificate in Engineering programs. Each academic year, Maryland Applied Graduate Engineering recognizes one instructor with our Outstanding Teacher Award. This award is based on course evaluations submitted by our students.

This year's OTA recipient is Cybersecurity lecturer Michael Wittner. Wittner received a plaque from Dr. George Syrmos and a monetary gift as a token of MAGE's appreciation. Wittner holds two degrees from the University of Maryland: an undergraduate in Computer Science and a Masters of Engineering in Cybersecurity from MAGE.