Prof. Mohapatra is the recipient Teaching Excellence Awards and Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur.
Professor Mohapatra has received more than 16 times Letter of Commendations for teaching excellence from the Senate Chairman for all levels of courses. It is given for Instructors and Tutors receiving a student feedback of more than 3.5 in a scale of 4.0.

     YNM loves to teach physics and material science to both undergraduate and graduate students of engineering and science. He consciously tries to make physics more interesting and useful for engineering and interdisciplinary students. His techniques emphasize the perspective of an experimentalist that he is without losing theoretical rigour.
     In courses that he has developed, a recurring theme has been to make physics communicable to engineers and technologists useful to them both in content and style. Special emphasis is given to physics induced technologies for electrical engineers and materials scientists
     He offers a specially designed course called, 'Semiconductor Nanostructures : Physics and Technology' as an elective to graduate students of physics, electrical engineering and materials science.
     He has developed and regularly offers an elective course specially designed for interdisciplinary materials science graduate students on 'Electronic Materials'.
    Currently he is also developing a new course on "Physics of Organic Semiconductors'. This semester he is also teaching, and carrying out class room tests for a new course on "Communication Skills for Physics" for final year physics undergraduates.
    He is interested in developing methods of teaching through experimental Laboratory. Over the last couple of years he has been trying to bring about changes both in content and format of laboratory teaching at all levels.
   He is also interested in meta-issues of teaching and learning with a critical evaluation of content, and pedagogical tools.

UG Courses Taught & helped Design  (Typical Number of Students)
1.     PHY 100N  Introduction to Profession                (20)
2.     PHY 101    Physics Lab                                      (450-480 )
3.     PHY 102   Physics I Lecture + Tutorial                (450 -480)
4.     PHY 103 Lecture  + Tutorial                                 (450 -480)
5.     COM 100 Tutorial Communication Skills                        (30 )
6.     BSO 203  Tutorial Quantum Physics                              (150 )
7.     ESC 204  Tutorial  Nature & Properties of Materials       (30 )
8.     PHY399    Physics Communication Skills              (20 )
9.     PHY 543 Condensed Matter Physics- I                 (24 )
10.   PHY 441 Laboratory Electronics                          (40 )
11.   PHY 461/462 Experimental Physics                     (40 )
12.   PHY 561/562/563/565 Evaluation of  Projects
13.   PHY 688 Communication Skills for Physicists      (80)
14.   ETH 111  Practical Ethics for First Year Students (650)
15.   PHY 113  Electromagnetic Theory                        (650)
16.   PHY 114  Quantum Physics (First Year)               (650

1.     PHY 628 Topics in Semiconductor Physics                      (15-20 )
2.     PHY 690  Topics in Experimental Physics                          (10-12 )
3.     PHY 631 Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures    (15-25 )
4.     MS 601 Structure & Magnetic Properties of Materials  (25)
5.     MS 602 Electrical and Dielectric  Properties of  Materials (25)
6.     MS 604  Characterization of Materials
7.     MS 606  Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials
8.     MS611   Materials for Energy Conversion
9.     EE611   Organic Electronics        

            PHY 101    Physics Lab
            PHY 441    Electronics Lab
            PHY 461/462    M.Sc. Experimental Physics Lab