CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GUEST SPEAKER SERIES 2014-2015
Engagement Teaching in Engineering and the Physical SciencesMonday 12 January 2015, 10.00am – 1.00pm, Seminar Room 1, IPSC Building
The Workshop
Leeds Engineering Fulbright Scholar will present a Teaching Workshop for Academic Staff.
Wayne Seames, the 2014/15 Fulbright Distinguished Chair resident at the University of Leeds, and the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of North Dakota, will conduct a three hour workshop entitled, ‘Engagement Teaching in Engineering and the Physical Sciences’. In this workshop academic staff will learn new, more effective ways of designing their modules as well as teaching techniques that increase the engagement of students in the learning process. There will be an emphasis on how to engage students in large classroom settings. Professor Seames has been using engagement teaching techniques in his modules for over a decade. He has received multiple awards for his teaching, including being voted ‘Professor of the Year’ by undergraduate students at two separate universities.
The Speaker
Wayne Seames is the 2014/15 Fulbright Distinguished Chair and a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He is a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Chemical at the University of North Dakota (UND). An Arizona native, Seames received his BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona in 1979. After a 16 year industrial career as a Process Engineer, Supervisor, and Project Manager, he returned to Arizona and earned his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering in July, 2000. Professor Seames is an internationally recognized expert in renewable energy/chemicals technologies and in the environmental impacts of coal utilization. At Leeds, he is working with the Energy Research Institute on sustainable energy-related projects, and with the School of Process Engineering faculty to: 1) develop a workshop on engagement teaching methods in engineering and science, 2) generate a best practices report on course vs. module based learning paradigms, and 3) evaluate a new approach to process control instruction.
Among his academic awards are: the 2013 UND Faculty Scholar Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service; the 2012 UND Award for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research or Creative Work; the 2012 UND Faculty Spirit of Achievement Award; the 2011 UND Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor for sustained excellence as a tenured faculty member (UND’s highest faculty award); the 2007 UND Foundation/Thomas Clifford Faculty Achievement Award for Individual Excellence in Research; the 2006 ‘Professor of the Year’ award; UND School of Engineering and Mines; the 2004 UND School of Engineering and Mines Olson Professorship for Outstanding Individual Accomplishments in Research; and the 1999 ‘Award for Excellence at the Student Interface’, University of Arizona College of Engineering and Mines, (Professor of the Year) recognizing his teaching and advising contributions to the Chemical Engineering Department.
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