Daniel
Frey Honored
with
2006 Joseph A. Martore Excellence
in Teaching Award
By
Lois Slavin, ESD Communications Director
– February 15, 2007
February
13, 2007 – Institute Professor
Joel Moses, ESD Acting Director, has
announced that the Professor Daniel
D. Frey is the 2006 winner of the
Joseph
A. Martore Excellence in Teaching
Award. This award was established
to recognize and honor an ESD faculty
member who has made outstanding contributions
to one of ESD’s academic programs
in the areas of education and program
development.
Dr.
Frey is Robert N. Noyce Career
Development Professor and Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Engineering Systems. He was specifically
cited by his nominators as “an
exceptionally gifted teacher and educator
who …has made outstanding contributions
to the ESD educational agenda.”
Specific
areas noted by the nominators included:
- Developing
the first course in robustness for
the SDM program in 1998; core content
in Mechanical Engineering for key
core courses such as 2.007 and 2.72;
and a hands-on and problem-oriented
course in statistics
-
Serving as a key member of the team
charged with revising SDM’s
Systems Engineering course. “Dan’s
hard work and passionate teaching
have taken the Systems Engineering
course into an entirely new and
very stable framework, with a core
consisting of the intellectual underpinnings
for the Systems Engineering discipline,
augmented by direct applications
in robust design and other key methods”.
-
Serving on the ESD Undergraduate
Task Force “He has gained
the respect of his task force colleagues
through his well-thought through
and well-stated views about the
directions ESD should take in undergraduate
education….his contribution
to our major report in Fall 2004
on ESD’s role in the undergraduate
domain at MIT was substantial and
his contribution to our d’
Arbeloff proposal to support ESD’s
initiatives in undergraduate education
is vital. He is a major player in
this enterprise.”
-
Contributing to the ESD Doctoral
Seminar.”… the content
he brings to the seminar (is) among
the most important overall for the
students and their growth as complex
systems researchers. The topics
include…statistical thinking,
which Dan does an excellent job
of linking firmly to research and
engineering on engineering systems…(and)
a deep discussion of the philosophy
of science and epistemology of knowledge
that he has evolved over the past
several years. This topic has identified
for the students some new ways of
thinking about their own position
relative to systems thinking and
their personal research agenda….he
has become one of the pillars of
the doctoral seminar goal of being
a key enabler of our doctoral students’
transition from students to researchers.”
-
Working with the WGBH Educational
Foundation to develop a proposal
for an innovative new television
series that has the potential to
attract many more young people to
be interested in becoming engineers.”
Through “Design Squad,”
which premiers locally on WGBH-TV
on February24, 2007 at 11:30 A.M..
…“Frey has helped
to assure a full pipeline as well
as continuing to deliver ‘quality)
products’ to people already
undergoing engineering education.”
- Continuously
publishing scholarly work in the
educational field that is “extremely
highly regarded by leading figures
in education scholarship..”
“To
make these contributions to education
while still a junior faculty member
is extraordinary,” concluded
one of the nominators.
Professor
Frey will receive a plaque of appreciation
and a monetary award.
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