CHE 598 Seminar: Cooperative, Hands-on, Active, Problem-based Learning-Ideas & Insights for the Classroom
About the event
SPEAKER: Dr. Bernard Van Wie, Professor, WSU Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Bernard Van Wie is a full Professor in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. Dr. Van Wie received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma University. After working as a postdoc for 1 year, he joined WSU and has continued to serve as a faculty member with the WSU Voiland School for the past 42 years and was a recent recipient of the Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogy. The primary focus of Dr. Van Wie’s lab is the study of new and better biosensors and bioanalytical platforms. Since completing a sabbatical at the Naval Research Laboratory in 2000-2001, Dr. Van Wie has begun a collaboration to create hand-held and rapid-sensing devices for identifying and quantifying minute concentrations of persistent toxins in lakes and streams, of metabolites in the human body for disease diagnosis, and of antibodies, other products, and metabolites in cell culture processes for understanding the immune response and cell differentiation.
ABSTRACT:
Professor Bernie Van Wie, his colleagues and graduate students have been active over 36 years in engineering education research. Over the last 20 years Bernie has led the team in developing Desktop Learning Modules for experiential, interactive learning in lecture classrooms so students better grasp difficult concepts. The methods have been propagated at over 30 U.S. and international institutions by more than 50 professors. The team is working with two companies to translate Desktop Modules into commercial products and expanding the effort to create virtual replications of the experiments so more people nationally and internationally can take advantage of the learning strategies. Bernie and his team have co-authored 33 peer-refereed education publications, 69 publish-to-present ASEE papers, 170 papers overall, and led in 21 education-related grants amounting to $7.6 million. Bernie is an active Executive Committee member in the American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division.