詹姆斯·麦格拉思:“整洁”的教学方式成为学生的必经之路
底线: 詹姆斯·麦格拉思 requires everyone in his 200-level biomedical engineering class to form lines using straight edges and circles using circle templates or protractors. 他说:“整洁的演讲对清晰的思维至关重要。. (罗彻斯特大学摄/ J. 亚当窗口)The biomedical engineering professor’s approach has spillover effects beyond the signature undergraduate course he’s taught for 20 years.
詹姆斯·麦格拉思在我20年的教学生涯中，我遵循了一系列的原则. 首先，整洁很重要. 第二:认真工作比快速工作更重要. 最后，教教室里准备最少的学生.
“My goal is always to simplify the presentation so that everybody in the room is learning something,麦格拉思说, 威廉号R. 该小. 教授 生物医学工程 在 澳门十大信誉网赌大全.
很明显，学生们学到了很多东西.
“Dr. 麦格拉思对生物力学的热情从第一堂课开始就显而易见,24岁的Arthur Masiukiewicz说. “他真的想确保每个学生都能理解这些材料. 他通过鼓励学生在每节课上提问来实现这一目标, and by prompting students with questions of his own to spark discussion of the material.”
一位要求苛刻的老师的遗产还在继续
麦格拉思, 在梅萨长大的人, 亚利桑那州, 他在亚利桑那州立大学获得机械工程学士学位. After completing a master’s from MIT in 1994 and a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Program of Health 科学s and 技术 in 1998, 麦格拉思面试了学术界和工业界的工作.
然而，教书的诱惑是强大的, 2001年，他加入了澳门十大信誉网赌大全, 就在生物力学工程系成立的时候. “It was so new that I was writing the curriculum for a class—BME 201: Fundamentals of Biomechanics—just in time for the department’s first sophomore class to take it,他说.
His mentor at 亚利桑那州 State had been a demanding engineering professor named Daniel Jankowski. “他很严厉，但很聪明，”麦格拉思说. “他极大地激励了我.”
詹姆斯·麦格拉思，威廉·R. 该小. 生物医学工程教授, is among the recipients of the 2023 Goergen Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. (罗彻斯特大学摄/ J. 亚当窗口)
One aspect of Jankowski’s teaching that 麦格拉思 adopted at Rochester was a commitment to neatness in students’ homework. 麦格拉思 requires everyone in his BME 201 class to form lines using straight edges and circles using circle templates or protractors. 马虎的演讲实际上是马虎的思考,他解释道, 而整洁的演讲对于清晰的思维至关重要.”
但不止于此, 麦格拉思 says: “This is the first real engineering course that many students have ever taken. I thought it was very important th在y develop these good habits for problem solving early on.”
Biomedical engineering associate professor Mark Buckley was grading papers for a class last year when he noticed this attention to detail from one student after another. When he commended their immaculate work, they told him, “We learned it from Professor 麦格拉思.”
麦格拉思教授这门课程, 哪些是生物医学工程专业的必备条件, 连续干了20年，直到去年休假. 结果是, virtually every biomedical engineering student over the past two decades has had him as a teacher.
虽然麦格拉思对整洁很严格，但他对准时却很宽容. For his first 12 years, he gave students as long as possible to finish final exams—literally. “那时候，考试会在晚上7:30开始.m.记录是一名学生在早上6点半交了试卷.m. 因为她得赶飞机回家，”麦格拉思说. “The registrar eventually moved the final exam to noon and made this approach impossible. 但我还是给同学们尽可能长的时间来完成期末考试.”
学生有无限的时间来完成期末考试，有些人需要几个小时. 他一直等到最后一个学生讲完, 理由是认真的工作应该比快速的工作得到奖励. Buckley says students in his classes have talked about BME 201 “like a rite of passage th在y were proud of having successfully completed.”
2019冠状病毒病如何引发教学改革
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the River 校园 in March 2020 and moved classes online, 麦格拉思把这次挫折看作是一次改变自己教学方式的机会.
“There were times in those 20 years when I felt like I couldn’t inspire myself or the students,他说. 保持新鲜感的唯一方法就是走出你的舒适区，冒着失败的风险, 我觉得是时候了.”
在家备课, 他创作了30多个动画视频，涵盖了生物力学的基本概念, 自己配音. The videos were so popular that he used them when students returned to his class in person—only this time, 他提供现场解说. “这是20年来的第一次, I was able to face the students to teach instead of turning my back to write on the board,他说. “这是一种解脱.”
一种适用于实验室内外的教学理念
麦格拉思的早期十大澳门信誉网赌排名集中在细胞迁移现象上. 但自2007年以来，他一直领导着 纳米膜十大澳门信誉网赌排名组, 高度跨学科, multi-institutional team that is developing and applying ultrathin silicon nanomembrane technologies. 他把该组织的本科生和十大澳门信誉网赌排名生十大澳门信誉网赌排名人员视为他的合作者. “我对当别人的老板毫无兴趣，但我别无选择，”他说. “I do my best over our years of work together to help a student address their weaknesses, 但不要太过强硬. By the time they leave, my goal is th在y are, in fact, a colleague and not ‘my student.’”
他现在的同事和他的学生一样对他印象深刻.
“他总是在努力思考课程, 如何最好地教授它, 如何满足学生的需要，确保达到学习目标,Stephen McAleavey说, 也是生物医学工程系的副教授和系主任. “他对教育学的投入激励着我和我的同事们.”
“Dr. 麦格拉思对生物力学的热情从第一堂课开始就显而易见,24岁的Arthur Masiukiewicz说. “他真的想确保每个学生都能理解这些材料.(罗彻斯特大学照片/ J. 亚当窗口)
麦格拉思也是 SiMPore, 这是一家位于澳门十大信誉网赌大全的膜和纳米技术公司, 纽约, 并在董事会担任公司董事. Several undergraduates from his class have completed internships 在 company over the years.
“Engaging with industry and start-ups over the years has given me an appreciation of the universal need for sound thinkers who can solve unanticipated technical problems,他说. “我们在BME中确实很好地教授解决问题的方法, 我认为几十年来我们在澳门十大信誉网赌大全的许多项目中都做得很好. So my experience has given me the confidence to know that Rochester students will have a positive impact in their jobs once they are done here.”
His familiarity with industry has motivated him to prepare his students by emphasizing the fundamentals of problem solving until the key steps become habit. 他说:“用你自己的话清楚地陈述问题，这样你就能承认问题。. “You are not finished with your work until you check that your answers are at least sensible. 其他人必须最终判断他们是否是正确答案.”
詹姆斯·麦格拉思的学生怎么说的
“Professor 麦格拉思’s use of animated videos of his lectures was unique and helped me effectively visualize and understand the motions of the particles and rigid bodies we were studying, 以及解决问题的方法. 在他的演讲中, 他经常停下来回答学生们的所有问题, 通常更详细地接近解释, 或者换个角度, 确保学生完全理解问题的答案. 这使我能够学习材料，并在他的课堂上脱颖而出.”
——温迪·齐默尔曼“作为一名学生，麦格拉思教授的教学清晰、有效、切题. 作为一名助教，他允许在教学环境中自由和创新. 他经常让我们实施我们认为对学生有益的材料. I assure you that I am not the only student who believes Professor 麦格拉思’s class was essential in our education and that he did a fantastic job in furthering our learning.”
——priscila Passerotti Vaciski Barbosa ' 22“他是一位真正鼓舞人心的教授、导师和榜样. 能向他学习是我的荣幸，能和他一起工作也是我的荣幸. 我学到了很多其他地方学不到的东西. 无论我走到哪里，我都打算和他保持联系. 每当我陷入僵局时，他都会帮助我成长. 他是一位模范教授，任何学生都很幸运能遇到他.”
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