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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 · Last updated 8:02 p.m. PT
Retired UW professor wins national teaching award
A retired University of Washington professor was recognized Wednesday by the National Academy of Engineering for the creation of an undergraduate program that lets students work with businesses on real-world problems.
Former mechanical engineering professor Jens Jorgensen, who taught at the UW for 35 years, was among the recipients of the Bernard M. Gordon Prize, which recognizes innovative engineering programs.
Jorgensen directed the UW’s Learning Factory, where undergraduate engineering students tackled such projects as designing test equipment for skis.
“That’s the kind of experience that they need for going out to be engineers in real life,” Jorgensen said. “You go to work for Boeing or you go to work for Intel, 5 you end up analyzing a problem and designing some kind of fixture or test bench and then have it built.
“They wanted people to still have all the theoretical knowledge that we’ve been giving them all these years, but they also wanted them to be ready to go to work.”
The award comes with a $500,000 prize that will be shared among the five winners, which include professors from the Learning Factory’s partner schools: Pennsylvania State University and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez.
The winners will be honored at a dinner in Washington, D.C., next month.
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