Rebecca M. Reck (she/her) (PI)

is a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering. She currently teaches courses and laboratories in biomedical instrumentation and has taught courses and laboratories in dynamic systems and controls. All her courses include experiential learning activities. Her areas of research include experiential learning, undergraduate instructional laboratories, and inclusive pedagogy. She is an active volunteer in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ABET, and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

 

Holly Golecki (she/her) (co-PI)

is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering. She holds an appointment at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences. She is also a core faculty member at the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in the College of Engineering. Holly is an Associate in the Bioedesign Lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Holly studies biomaterials and soft robotics and their applications in the university classroom, in undergraduate research and in engaging K12 teachers and students in STEM.

 

Christopher D. Schmitz (co-PI)

is a Teaching Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chief Undergraduate Adviser and previously an Education Innovation Fellow (EIF) in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. An Electrical Engineer, his research interests include algorithmic fault-tolerant adaptive systems, software defined radio, multi-user cellular communication, electrically-small devices, and pedagogies of teaching and learning. An amateur beekeeper, he mentors an undergraduate RSO that applies engineering solutions to the plight of honeybees.

 

Katie Ansell (she/her) (co-PI)

is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Physics. She is a leading member of a team that reformed the introductory Physics laboratory curricula at Illinois and continues to oversee the pedagogy of the labs, providing training to Teaching Assistants and supporting the enculturation of Learning Assistants into the community of instruction. Her research interests focus on the nature of expertise and creativity in physics laboratory spaces. Outside of research and laboratory reform, Katie’s teaching interests include supporting accessibility and equity in large courses, as well as developing historical and societal perspectives on the nature of scientific discovery in the introductory STEM curriculum.

 

Chandra Radhakrishnan

is a Teaching Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is interested in teaching and developing curriculum in the areas of circuits and signal processing. His research interests are in applications of statistical signal processing in circuit design, design of low power/error tolerant systems, and pedagogical approaches in learning and teaching engineering.

 

 

Jessica TerBush

is a Lecturer and member of the Undergraduate Advisory committee in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Grainger College of Engineering) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she serves as the Teaching Assistant (TA) coordinator for the department. She is a past recipient of the Engineering Council Outstanding Advisors Award, and the Illinois Student Government’s Teaching Excellence Award. Her teaching interests include best practices for undergraduate laboratory instruction, and writing across the curriculum, for which she developed an engineering communication class for graduate students and senior undergrads.