UT College of Engineering Annual Report 2003-2004

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VERSATILITY IN TEACHINGDr. Wesley Hines, an associate professor in theUniversity of Tennessee’s Department of NuclearEngineering, gives new meaning to the word“versatility.”An outstanding teacher, researcher, mentor and student advisor,Hines has also established himself as an internationallyrecognized expert in maintenance and reliability engineering,condition monitoring and diagnostics, and applied artificialintelligence.“You often see two schools of thought about research andteaching,” Hines commented. “One school advocates teachingfrom the theoretical point of view, while the other backs theapplication point of view. I try to merge both–it is the theorythat allows students to understand why things happen the waythey do, so they can then correctly and effectively apply theseprinciples to real-world situations.”A respected researcher in the application of artificial intelligenceand advanced information processing techniques toHe has been a campus leader in promoting the effective integrationof technology into the classroom, and currently servesas the COE’s Extended Education Coordinator. The first COEprofessor to teach a class synchronously over the Internet, hehas instructed students at other U.S. universities such as theColorado School of Mines and internationally to researchers atBrazil’s National Nuclear Research Center. Hines has developedinternal grant programs aimed at integrating advanced teachingtechnologies into the classroom.The primary focus for Hines, however, remains on the students.“In all of my work with technology in the classroom, I try toget people to think strategically, so we can efficiently allocateour resources to improve our services to our students as well aspositively affect our ranking,” Hines said.Recently, Hines won a multi-year National Science Foundationgrant to develop distance-based courses to facilitate studenttransfer from community colleges into the engineering college.The goal is to provide classes that may not be traditionally offeredat community colleges but are required prerequisites tostart the junior year at UT.Outstanding Faculty MemberDr. Wes Hines12 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
UT/ORNL InterdisciplinaryCollaborationsequipment monitoring and diagnostics, Hines has developedtechniques for sensor calibration and monitoringthat are used in the nuclear and chemical industry; theseapplications have also been adopted by large internationalresearch centers, such as the Halden Reactor Project (HRP)in Norway.Hines is the author of MATLAB Supplement to Fuzzy andNeural Approaches in Engineering, published by John Wiley& Sons in 1997. The publication includes hundreds ofexamples, demonstrations and problems for engineeringstudents. Hines is also working on a second book, and currentlyhas six articles accepted for publication by refereedjournals, with an additional three in review.Hines has been the principal, co-principal investigator orsenior researcher in funded projects at UT exceeding $3.4million, and virtually all were won by competitive submissionsto federal agencies and industrial organizations.In 2000, the partnership of the University of Tennessee-Battelleassumed management duties for Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL), one of the nation’s foremost scientific research centers.The college has sought to create closer ties with ORNL and theOak Ridge scientific community by establishing the followinginterdisciplinary collaborations:• International Materials Institute• Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences• Joint Institute for Nanoscale Imaging and Fabrication• Joint Institute for Computational Sciences• Joint Center for Homeland Security• Joint Center for Biomedical Engineering• Tennessee Advanced Materials LaboratoryIn 2004, Hines received the College of Engineering’s TeachingFellow Award and the Leon and Nancy Cole SuperiorTeaching Award. He was the recipient of the 2004 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, Southeastern SectionOutstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award and also receivedthe “2004 Outstanding Contribution Award for OutstandingContributions to the Field of Fuzzy Logic and IntelligentTechnologies in Nuclear Science” (FLINS) in Blankenberge,Belgium.“It’s my belief that those of us in the college who are servingthe students have to constantly strive to improve. Wehave to instill change in order to get results,” Hines added.2003 – 2004 ANNUAL REPORT 13
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