Prof. Phillips Receives Advising Award

7/3/2012 By Anna Flanagan

Professor James PhillipsProfessor James Phillips, Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, has been selected to receive the 2008 Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students. He has had an enormous impact on students, and especially those in the engineering mechanics degree program, first as Associate Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and currently as MechSE's Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs.

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Professor James Phillips
Professor James Phillips
Professor James Phillips
Professor James Phillips, Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, has been selected to receive the 2008 Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students. He has had an enormous impact on students, and especially those in the engineering mechanics degree program, first as Associate Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and currently as MechSE's Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. For more than 20 years, he has helped students take a goals-based approach to their undergraduate studies, and focuses on helping them achieve their goals through strategic curricular choices. In 1994, he created TAM 195 Mechanics in the Modern World, and has taught it every year since then. For nearly 30 years, he has served as the faculty advisor to the student chapter of the Society for Experimental Mechanics.


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This story was published July 3, 2012.