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JOHN BOOSKEChancellor’sAwardJohn Booske teaches a tough subject — electromagnetic engineering.How does he do it so well? Easy — he gives his students a shortcut Before his lectures, Booske passes out copies of his lecture notes to his students. That means students don’t have to worry about replicating the material presented to them, he said.“They’re watching the board and they know there’s a record of it... so then they can pay attention to me, said Booske, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.Booske views this simple step as key to his approach to teaching. Rather than have students memorize facts or copy notes, Booske tries to concentrate on getting students to participate inlearning.“A fair amount of what we do is invisible — we do it and we’re not sure why, he said. “Part of what it is, I suppose, is a concerted effort to engage the students in a bit of dialogue. I try to get them questioning; I try to get them thinking.Booske views his research work as essential to maintaining his abilities as a teacher. He’s found that, as a researcher, the answers to the most complex problems are often found in the fundamentals of engineering. Those are the same fundamentals that he teaches in his undergraduate classes.If nothing else, (research) gives me a certain confidence about what I know and don’t know, he said. “I can be secure in the fact that I don’t know everything and we can explore that in the class.”
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