Provost Reflects on Career Journey in Light of Prestigious Engineering Award
“With the Acropolis and other classical ancient Greek ruins just a short walk from Fotis Sotiropoulos’ childhood home in Athens, it’s easy to understand why he wanted to be an archaeologist early on. But after discovering his love of mathematics in high school, the path he chose was mechanical engineering, a field that has served him well.
So well in fact, that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recently bestowed Sotiropoulos, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, with the prestigious Fluids Engineering Award, honoring outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, particularly the field of fluids engineering through research, practice and/or teaching.”
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