November 16, 2007

'Professors of the Year' Gauge Best Ways to Inspire Students to Learn Technical Disciplines

By Paula Wasley

At a time when mathematics, science, and engineering education is frequently described as in crisis, four professors are being honored for their work teaching those subjects, often to student populations typically seen as phobic of such technical disciplines.

At a ceremony on Thursday in Washington, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named this year's national "Professors of the Year."

The four

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