Jonathan DantzigEmeritus Professor Jonathan Dantzig has been selected to receive the 2009 Educator Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). The award recognizes Dantzig's outstanding contributions to materials processing education through award-winning classroom teaching and industrial short courses, development of innovative undergraduate and graduate classes, and textbook writing.
Written by By Kathryn L. Heine
Jonathan Dantzig
Jonathan Dantzig
Emeritus Professor Jonathan Dantzig has been selected to receive the 2009 Educator Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). The award recognizes Dantzig's outstanding contributions to materials processing education through award-winning classroom teaching and industrial short courses, development of innovative undergraduate and graduate classes, and textbook writing.
During his 29-year career at Illinois, Dantzig was one of the most highly-rated instructors in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering.He significantly strengthened undergraduate instruction in materials processing through excellent teaching of introductory classes in engineering materials and numerical methods and co-created two key introductory courses: an upper-level undergraduate course that serves as the gateway to graduate instruction in materials processing and the graduate-level capstone course in materials processing.
In 2001, he and Professor Charles Tucker broke ground by publishing a textbook to accompany the upper-level undergraduate course they created. Published by Cambridge University Press, Modeling in Materials Processing has been widely adopted by Purdue University, the University of Iowa, Ohio State University, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and many others.