The Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3)
AE3 is an affiliation of faculty and staff
from a variety of colleges, departments and academic units. The College
of Engineering (COE), the Department of Human Resource Education, and
the Center for Teaching Excellence are the primary contributing units.
We
regularly collaborate with other teaching academies on campus, and are
currently working with the Colleges of Business and Education on faculty
development opportunities.
AE3 is currently also (Fall 2004) in the process of forming an Advisory
Committee of COE faculty with the goal of gathering input on faculty
and departmental needs within the COE, and how to effectively respond
to those needs.
AE3's main programs for faculty are the
FastStart faculty development program, the
Peer Observation process, and the monthly seminar meetings.
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Bruce Elliott-Litchfield is Director of AE3 and an Assistant Dean
in the College of Engineering in the Academic Programs Office. He
is also a member of the Campus Honors Faculty. His research is heat
and mass transfer of biomaterials, sensors and process controls.
He is the founder of the College of Engineering Teaching College/FastStart
Program. A former Process and Project Engineer at General Foods
Corporation, he holds a Masters of Science and Doctor of Philosophy
from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Illinois. He has been highly recognized for
excellence in teaching throughout his career at UIUC and is also
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Leslie
Crowley Srajek
email
(217
265-0668
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Leslie Crowley Srajek is a project manager and writing specialist
for AE3. Leslie is also currently a Project Assistant for LINC--Learning
in Community, a service-learning course. She has been part of
the instructional team for Engineering Emotional Intelligence,
and has taught Learning Through Inquiry, a self-directed learning
experience for freshmen engineering students. Leslie has also
worked with senior engineering students in capstone design courses,
and has taught writing and communications in the context of different
disciplines, including Business and Technical Writing and Introduction
to Fiction. She received a Ph.D. in English from UIUC in 2001.
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Laura Hahn is a Specialist in Education in the Center for Teaching
Excellence at UIUC. She provides educational expertise to engineering
faculty, and works with teaching assistants campus-wide. She has
also worked on the ARC project with AE3 and CS 101, GE 103, and
TAM. In addition, she helps coordinate AE3's Assessment Center.
Laura also teaches in the Division of English as an International
Language at UIUC. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
from UIUC in 1999. |
John Cotton
Dana
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The author of our quotation "Who dares to teach must never
cease to learn," John Cotton Dana was a 19th-century librarian,
philanthropist and curator. Among the significant changes he instituted
to our library system were the creation of open stacks where library
users could browse the rows of book titles for themselves and separate
children's rooms. Although we take these two services very much
for granted in our use of libraries today, John Cotton Dana was
one of the first library directors in the nation to incorporate
such innovations. |
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