Now I'm more strongly convinced than ever that that's right. The whole purpose of the university is to bring students and faculty together.
Teaching is the most important thing a professor can do.
Over the last two years Clark has developed a set of special mathematics courses for undergraduate engineering students. The courses apply math to real-life scenarios, for instance, developing mathematics to analyze a building's heating system, a population's growth rate, a car's suspension on a bumpy road, or the rate of depletion of a species by commercial fishing. Many students cite Clark as the best teacher they've ever had. Teaching awards are nothing new for Clark. A graduate of Purdue University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark joined the University's faculty in 1964.