April 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: University Education: Awards: Engineering: Mechanical Engineering: University of Wisconsin : Kenya RPCV Jay K. Martin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering honored for teaching excellence at University of Wisconsin
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April 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: University Education: Awards: Engineering: Mechanical Engineering: University of Wisconsin : Kenya RPCV Jay K. Martin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering honored for teaching excellence at University of Wisconsin
Kenya RPCV Jay K. Martin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering honored for teaching excellence at University of Wisconsin
Kenya RPCV Jay K. Martin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering honored for teaching excellence at University of Wisconsin
UW-Madison to honor 10 faculty for teaching excellence
Milestones
University of Wisconsin Communications Release
April 12, 2005
[Excerpt]
Each year, UW-Madison recognizes teaching excellence among its faculty in the form of Distinguished Teaching Awards. Each award carries a $5,000 stipend. Award winners will be honored at a free public ceremony and reception at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, at the Fluno Center. The ceremony is sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and organized by the UW-Madison Office of the Secretary of the Faculty.
The 2005 winners are:
Jay K. Martin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chancellor's Award Kenyan students provided Martin's initial introduction to teaching. He was 21, a week fresh from college and a new Peace Corps volunteer.
"Kenya followed the Cambridge system, which meant that students had to do well on the state-administered exams in order to continue their education," Martin says. "I had no teaching experience but was immediately responsible for helping them learn calculus and physics. Talk about pressure and learning on the job!"
Martin taught in Kenya between 1975 and 1977. Afterward, he held positions at the universities of Tennessee and Michigan, Oak Ridge and Sandia Laboratories, General Motors and more. He joined the UW-Madison engineering faculty in 1985.
This semester he is teaching courses in thermodynamics and engineering design. His students say that a hallmark of Martin's teaching style is his emphasis on broad, long-view concepts, which lessens the pressure to learn too much too fast.
A pioneer of service learning, Martin works in rehabilitative engineering, involving both graduate and undergraduate students in the development of power systems for wheelchairs, devices that aid air travel for persons with disabilities, maintenance and repair of assistive technology and more. In 2002, he and colleagues Frank Fronczak, Nicola Ferrier and the late Terry Richard established the University of Wisconsin Center for Rehabilitative Engineering and Assistive Technology (UW-CREATE).
In addition, Martin is the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Foundation Coalition, which aims to improve the undergraduate curriculum in engineering schools. He also co-chairs UW-Madison's Teaching Academy.
"I am very interested in asking big questions about teaching and learning on campus - for example, how improvements in evaluating teaching affect the quality of learning," he says.
Martin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, his master's degree from the University of Tennessee and his bachelor's degree from Indiana University.
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