autarkaw.comAUTAR KAW – Professor, open courseware advocate, socioeconomic diversity champion, one-pony

pedagogy assailant, UDL believer, replicating education-research studies supporter. AUTAR KAW Professor, open courseware advocate, socioeconomic diversity champion, one-pony pedagogy assailant, UDL believer, replicating education-research studies supporter. Menu HOME NEWS 2024 News 2023 News 2022 News 2021 News 2020 News 2019 News 2018 News 2017 News 2016 News 2015 News 2014 News 2013 News 2012 News 2011 News SPEAKING AND WORKSHOPS TEACHING Teaching Statement EML3041 Computational Methods EML3035 Programming Concepts EML4230 Introduction to Composite Materials RESEARCH Research Topics Grants Journal Papers Conference Publications SERVICE Workshops Facilitated Keynote Speeches Panelist HONORS & AWARDS TEXTBOOKS Numerical Methods with Applications Textbook Mechanics of Composite Materials Textbook Introduction to Matrix Algebra Textbook Introduction to Programming Concepts with MATLAB Textbook FE Practice Test With Complete Solutions PUBLICATIONS Journal Papers Newspaper Articles Conference Publications STUDENTS CONTACT ME Scroll down to content AUTAR KAW AUTAR KAW is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Florida. He is a recipient of the 2012 U.S Professor of the Year award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. The award is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate education. Professor Kaw believes that the most essential function of a university, including research universities, will continue to be on the learning side. As much as we need more qualified college graduates, we also need highly talented graduates to invent the next big thing – it could be an economic renewable energy resource or a cure for chronic diseases of the mind and body. If we want to truly create opportunities for our future generations, we have to first address the socioeconomic divide in our country. To address it for higher education while maintaining the current meritocracy which favors the wealthy, we as a society should fully sponsor the education of the top academic standing quartile who belong to the lowest income quartile families. After all, 17% of the brightest high school graduates in our nation do belong in that category. Professor Kaw received his B.E. Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) India in 1981, and his degrees of Ph.D. in 1987 and M.S. in 1984, both in Engineering Mechanics from Clemson University, SC. He joined the University of South Florida in 1987. Professor Kaw’s main scholarly interests are in engineering education research, adaptive learning, open courseware development, bascule bridge design, fracture mechanics, composite materials, and the state and future of higher education. Professor Kaw’s research has been funded by National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Florida Department of Transportation, Research and Development Laboratories, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Montgomery Tank Lines. Funded by National Science Foundation, under Professor Kaw’s leadership, he and his colleagues from around the nation have developed, implemented, refined, and assessed online resources for open courseware in Numerical Methods . This courseware receives 1,000,000+ page views, 1,800,000+ views of the YouTube lectures , and 100,000+ annual visitors to the Numerical Methods Guy blog . Professor Kaw has written more than 115 refereed technical papers , and his opinion editorials have appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, Chronicle Vitae, and Tampa Tribune. Professor Kaw’s work has been covered/cited/quoted in many media outlets, including Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, U.S. Congressional Record, Florida Senate Resolution, ASEE Prism, Tampa Bay Times, Tampa Tribune, WUSF, BayNews9, Fox13, WLRN, and Voice of America. Professor Kaw has received several national, regional, and university awards , including the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year Award, the 2011 ASEE National Teaching Award, the 2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, and the 1991 SAE Ralph-Teetor Award. Look at Professor Kaw’s curriculum vitae for complete details or visit https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3976-6375 2023 News FALL 2023 Published Metacognition instruction and repeated reflection in a fluid mechanics course: Reflective themes and student outcomes , RM Clark, A Kaw, R Guldiken, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education JUNE 2023 Presented paperUsing Adaptive Learning Platform Metrics for Early Identification and Personalized Support of Low-Performing Students ” at the ASEE Confernce JUNE 2, 2023 Published a paper onOn learning platform metrics as markers for student success in a course ” in Computer Applications in Engineering Education Journal. MARCH 13, 2023 Adaptive learning: Helpful to the flipped classroom in the online environment of COVID?” received the Thomas C. Evans Engineering Education Paper Award from ASEE-SC MARCH 22, 2023 Selected as one of three semi-finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award . The Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers” Teaching Statement In the December 12, 2003 issue of Chronicle of Higher Education, the question What Makes a Teacher Great? was asked of the 2003 CASE U.S. Professor of the Year winners. Although I reluctantly agreed with their view that it is hard to categorically answer such a question, I believe that there are some necessary traits of great teachers ― being organized, understanding the importance of the first day of class, using teaching tools effectively, being compassionate, giving rapid and relevant feedback, asking questions, and having high expectations. In recent years, I have been regularly teaching three courses including Computational Methods, Programming Concepts for Mechanical Engineers, and Laminated Composite Materials. My ongoing quest for improving pedagogy is based on evidence-based research, and as an example for a course in Computational Methods include flipping the classroom where the location of transmission and assimilation of the course gets reversed, improving the pre-class learning and pre-requisite knowledge through adaptive learning platform lessons so that students of all abilities can reach a reasonable competency level, experiencing numerical methods via a real-life problem-centered approach to challenge linear thinking, foster problem-solving skills of ill-defined problems, improve self-efficacy, and develop critical thinking skills, evaluating data collected via in-class experiments that are low-cost, low-space, and low-setup time to make connections between experimental data and analysis,using clicker quizzes that assess conceptual knowledge and create an inclusive basis for peer-to-peer and instructor discussion (many myths have been busted through this process), having conceptual and procedural questions in the in-class assignments to develop competency and confidence in both,assigning online homework quizzes that are algorithmic and repeatable, giving immediate feedback, and creating effective and efficient time-on-task opportunities, making course resources available openly and in different forms to facilitate flexible knowledge transfer,using problem sets based on Bloom’s taxonomy so that students gain knowledge as well as assimilation at the highest levels,having online study hall discussions of assigned problems via tools such as Piazza to create more active engagement, giving group projects to develop teamwork and communication skills but limited in number as our students in mid-tier universities have many other obligations outside of the classroom and that individual work is critical for students to learn about how they learn”,assigning projects where students are asked...