"Setting an example is not
the main means of influencing another; it is the only
means." – Albert
Einstein
Department/School:
Richard M. Felder
Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7905
Home Page:
http://www2.ncsu.edu/
effective_teaching/
Email:
felder@eos.ncsu.edu
Workshops Taught:
Teaching Effectiveness
Course Design
Mentoring and Supporting New Faculty Members
Engineering Faculty Development
Featured Materials:
Full Interview Transcript
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Dr. Richard M. Felder is Hoechst
Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, and
co-director of the SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition
faculty development program. He is coauthor of Elementary
Principles of Chemical Processes (3rd Edition, John Wiley &
Sons, 2000), which has been used as the introductory course
text by most American chemical engineering departments for
more than two decades. He has authored or coauthored over
150 papers on chemical process engineering and engineering
education and presented hundreds of seminars, workshops, and
short courses in both categories to industrial and research
institutions and universities throughout the United States
and abroad. Since 1991 he has codirected the National
Effective Teaching Institute under the auspices of the
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Dr. Felder received the B.Ch.E. degree from the City College
of New York in 1962 and the Ph.D. in chemical engineering
from Princeton University in 1966. He worked for the Atomic
Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England) and
Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the North
Carolina State faculty in 1969. His honors include the R.J.
Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and
Extension in 1982, the AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence
in Engineering Education in 1985, the Chemical Manufacturers
Association National Catalyst Award in 1989, the ASEE
Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering
education in 1997, and a number of national and regional
awards for his publications on engineering education. He was
named a Fellow of the ASEE in 1996.
Selected Publications:
Felder, R.M. and R. Brent. "Effective Strategies for
Cooperative Learning."
Journal of Cooperation & Collaboration in College Teaching
10, no. 2
(2001): 63–69.
Haller, C.R., V.J. Gallagher, T.L. Weldon and R.M. Felder.
"Dynamics of Peer
Interaction in Cooperative Learning Workgroups." Journal of
Engineering
Education 89, no. 3 (2000): 285–293.
Kaufman, D.B., R.M. Felder and H. Fuller. "Accounting for
Individual Effort in
Cooperative Learning Teams." Journal of Engineering
Education 89, no. 2
(2000): 133–140.
Brent, R. and R.M. Felder. "It’s a Start." College Teaching
47, no. 1 (1999): 14–17.
Felder, R.M. , G.N. Felder and E.J. Dietz. "A Longitudinal
Study of Engineering
Student Performance and Retention. V. Comparisons with
Traditionally-Taught
Students." Journal of Engineering Education 87, no. 4
(1998): 469-480.
Felder, R.M. and R. Brent. "Navigating the Bumpy Road to
Student–Centered Instruction." College Teaching 44, no. 2
(1996): 43–47.
Felder, R.M. "A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student
Performance and Retention. IV. Instructional Methods and
Student Responses to Them." Journal of Engineering
Education 84, no.4 (1995): 361–367.
Felder, R.M. "The Myth of the Superhuman Professor." Journal
of Engineering Education 83, no. 2 (1994): 105–110.
[Translated into Spanish and published as "El Mito del
Profesor Superhumano." Educación Química 5, no. 2 (1994):
82–88.]
Felder, R.M. "Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and
Teaching Styles in College
Science Education." Journal of College Science Teaching 23,
no. 5 (1993): 286–290.
Brent, R. and R.M. Felder. "Writing Assignments — Pathways
to Connections, Clarity,
Creativity." College Teaching 40, no. 2 (1992): 43–47.
Recommended Books on Teaching and Teaming:
Elbow, Peter. Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning
and Teaching. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Palmer, Parker. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner
Landscape of a Teacher's Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
1998.
Ramsden, Paul. Learning to Lead in Higher Education. New
York: Routledge, 1998. |
