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 Autar Kaw is a
professor of mechanical
engineering
and
Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher
at the
University of South Florida.
Autar has written several books on subjects such as
composite materials,
numerical methods,
computer programming
and
engineering licensure
examination.
Since 2002, under his leadership, he and his colleagues from
all over the nation have developed, implemented, refined and
assessed online resources for open courseware in Numerical
Methods (http://nm.mathforcollege.com).
With more than a million page views per year, this
courseware is becoming increasingly popular. This is in
addition to the half-a-million annual views of the
YouTube
lectures and 75,000 annual visitors to the "numerical
methods guy" blog.
Autar's work has
appeared
in the St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, Chance, Oracle,
and his work has been covered in
Campus Technology.
Autar is a Fellow of the
American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) and a member of the
American Society of
Engineering Education
(ASEE). He received his BE Honors degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science
(BITS), India in 1981, and his degrees of Ph.D. in 1987 and
M.S. in 1984, both in Engineering Mechanics from
Clemson University,
SC.
Professor Kaw received the National Outstanding Teaching
Medal from American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
in 2011, Florida U.S. Professor of the
Year Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE) and Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of
Teaching (CFAT) in 2004, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) Curriculum Innovation Award in 2004, Archie
Higdon Mechanics Educator Award from the American Society of
Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2003, State of Florida
Teaching Incentive Program Award in 1994 and 1997, American
Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) New Mechanics
Educator Award in 1992, and the Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE) Ralph Teetor Award in 1991.
His current
scholarly interests include engineering education research
methods, cyberlearning, thermal stresses, computational
mechanics, mechanics of body armors, functionally graded
materials, and composite materials. |