FTEP Faculty Partners Honored with the System Teaching Award Spring 2011
FTEP is pleased to recognize Boulder campus faculty members David Klaus and Eric Stade, who have been honored as 2011 President’s Teaching Scholars for their lifetime at CU.
David Klaus, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is widely recognized as one of the United States’ foremost aerospace engineering educators. Professor Klaus’ varied career has included working as a Shuttle launch controller at Kennedy Space Station in Florida, and collaborating with the Sierra Nevada Corporation to develop the Dream Chaser Spacecraft. He led the establishment of the bioastronautics emphasis within the aerospace engineering curriculum, which focuses on the biological aspects of human space flight, and he is currently working with other universities to disseminate his teaching approach. Professor Klaus also serves as the Associate Director of Bioserve Space Technologies Research Center.
Klaus, David
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
E-mail: klaus@colorado.edu
303.492.3525
429 UCB
Eric Stade, Mathematics, is known for his skill at instructing students of all levels in complex mathematical ideas. During his time at the university he has worked to bring mathematics to the masses, helping to create the Undergraduate Mathematics Club, and organizing an outreach initiative to help teach math in local elementary schools. Professor Stade is the author of a successful graduate text on Fourier analysis. He was the recipient of the 2010 Burton W. Jones Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
Stade, Eric
Mathematics
E-mail: eric.stade@colorado.edu
303.492.0298
395 UCB
Congratulations to David and Eric!
