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Office Hours: Episode 10

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What Does a Teaching Professor Really Do? –
A Conversation with Dr. Jenny Amos

In this episode of Office Hours with Liz Wayne, she chats with Dr. Jenny Amos, Teaching Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about what it really means to build a career centered on teaching in academia. From her transition away from a traditional research path to her passion for student engagement, Dr. Amos breaks down the role of teaching faculty and how they shape the classroom experience for future biomedical engineers.

They explore topics like active learning, student belonging, and how course design can directly impact retention and success in engineering programs, along with how teaching has evolved in recent years. This conversation offers a behind-the-scenes look at the impact of great teaching in biomedical engineering.

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Dr. Liz Wayne, Office Hours Host & Assistant Professor at University of Washington; Dr. Jenny Amos, this month's guest, Teaching Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

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