Ron Kander

Ron Kander, of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, is recognized for his outstanding teaching, curriculum development, and learning environment enhancement activities in the department, college, university and surrounding community. He is Director of the College of Engineering's "Green Engineering" Program, a University concentration for engineering students, focusing on the environmental aspects of a student's particular engineering discipline. He has initiated the Science on Wheels program, which brings science and engineering experiments into 5th grade classrooms of nearby school districts in order to stimulate student interests in science. He is a demanding and enthusiastic teacher, whose classes are a blend of participatory active learning exercises, traditional classroom instruction, and electronic multimedia lecture delivery formats. He always has the students' best interests in mind every day, and he is an inspiration to the younger faculty in his department. For the fall Roundtable, his discussion is entitled "Creativity and Problem Solving."