Dr. Milanovic Receives Faculty Award

At the Faculty/Staff Kickoff for the new academic year, held August 26 in the newly renovated Gengras Café, Dr. Ivana Milanovic, Associate Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, received an award recognizing her innovations in teaching and learning. Specifically, Dr. Milanovic was honored for her development of a laboratory structure for a sequence of thermofluids experiments for the Mechanical Engineering Technology program here in CETA.

The structure provides a sequence of modules that bring students in Design of Experiment projects from experimental design to engineering design. The new structure has led to dramatic student accomplishments that is documented in course assessment data and alumni feedback. Several alumni report that the structure was a topic in their job interviews and is seen positively by employers.

The Awards for Innovations in Teaching and Learning recognize recent and specific achievements in creative and effective teaching. They are sponsored and funded by the harry Jack Gray/National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Enhancement Grants. Recipients receive faculty development funding to use during the coming academic year.

(l. to r.) Dr. Marcia Moen, chair of the awards committee, Dr. Ivana Milaovic, Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, provost of the University

CETA congratulates Dr. Milanovic on receiving this important award.