Forming Connections between Theory and Real Devices in a General Statics Course

Jennifer Holte is a volunteer educator and a Distinguish Service Professor at the University of St. Thomas. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (1996) and has been teaching adults and youth in a variety of settings over the past 20 years. She has taught advanced courses in Mechanism Design for the University of Minnesota, but finds herself in recent years shifting her focus to more foundational learning. She teaches Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Dynamics, and Machine Design for the University of St. Thomas, and in 2014 she developed a Math Fundamentals course for the Minnesota Literacy Council which paired immigrant English Language Learners with American-born students struggling with basic math.