Felder and Brent Workshop

Felder and Brent at AIT

AIT hosted the "Effective College Teaching" and "Instructional Development" events on the 14th and 15th of September 2009. Facilitated by Richard M. Felder Ph.D. and Rebecca Brend Ed.D. , particpants engaged with a variety of topics including learning styles, planning a course, assessment and active learning. The Learning and Teaching Unit, AIT had originally requested this training seminar through the LIN project however it transpired to be a collaborative initiative with the support of LIN, AISHE, EDIN the NDLR, the Shannon Consortium and the SIF II IoTI Flexible learning and Student Led Learning Project and Curriculum Reform Projects.


   

Richard M. Felder, Ph.D., is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000), which has been used as the text for the introductory chemical engineering course by most American chemical engineering departments and at many international institutions for over three decades, and he has authored or coauthored over 200 papers on chemical process engineering and engineering education. After receiving his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, he worked for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England) and Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the North Carolina State faculty. He has won numerous national and regional awards for his teaching and scholarly contributions to engineering and science education, including the AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education, the AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award for contributions to chemical engineering education, and the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Lifetime Achievement Award for Pedagogical Scholarship. Most of his publications can be viewed at .

Rebecca Brent, Ed.D., is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm in Cary, North Carolina. She has 30 years of experience in education and specializes in staff development in engineering and the sciences, teacher preparation, evaluation of educational programs at both precollege and college levels, and classroom uses of instructional technology. She has published roughly 100 articles on those topics and has given several hundred teaching workshops on campuses and at conferences around the world. Prior to her work in consulting, she was an Associate Professor of Education at East Carolina University. Dr. Brent received an Ed.D. from Auburn University, M.Ed. from Mississippi State University and a B.A. from Millsaps College, and holds a Certificate in Evaluation Practice from the Evaluators’ Institute at George Washington University.

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