{"id":7778,"date":"2011-09-23t07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-23t13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2011-09-26t16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26t22:05:12","slug":"junior-faculty-teaching-fellow-spotlight-jon-edd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2011\/09\/junior-faculty-teaching-fellow-spotlight-jon-edd\/","title":{"rendered":"junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: jon edd"},"content":{"rendered":"
each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, jon edd, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department talks about his teaching philosophy and interests:<\/em><\/p>\n after teaching thermodynamics for a year and a half, i find that one of the primary challenges for students is to assimilate the abstract ideas of energy and entropy, via the necessary vocabulary, into an intuitive understanding for each term in the respective balance equations. to address this, i include real-world examples and video clips into lectures, but i am also exploring the integration of research and educational goals to improve student learning. specifically, i am working to connect efforts in the laboratory to those in the classroom through scaling of thermal-fluid flows back and forth between the micro and macro worlds respectively.<\/p>\n