Random Thoughts Redux

Authors

  • Richard M. Felder North Carolina State University, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18260/2-1-370.660-140269

Keywords:

Active Learning, AI, Assessment and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Online Learning, Teaching Methods

Abstract

In the Fall 1988 issue of CEE, a two-page column titled “Impostors Everywhere” authored by Prof. Richard Felder of North Carolina State University appeared with the heading “Felder’s Filosophy.” In the next issue another two-page column appeared with the title “Nobody asked me, but…” and the new heading “Random Thoughts.” (Felder claims that he threatened violence if the journal didn’t change the original heading.) More such columns appeared in almost every subsequent CEE issue through Winter 2017. In this column Felder offers his thoughts on developments in engineering education since the last column was published.

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Author Biography

Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University, United States

Richard M. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received the B.Ch.E. degree from the City College of New York and the Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University and joined the North Carolina State faculty in 1969. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (4th  Edition, Wiley, 2015), which has been used as the text for the introductory chemical engineering course by over 90% of American chemical engineering departments and at many international institutions, and coauthor of Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (2nd Edition, Jossey-Bass, 2024), and he has presented hundreds of invited talks, workshops, and short courses on effective teaching at conferences and to industrial and research institutions and universities throughout the United States and abroad.

Corresponding author: rmfelder@mindspring.com

Published

2026-01-13

Issue

Section

60th Anniversary Special Section