Autar Kaw

Autar Kaw is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Florida whose scholarly interests include engineering education research, adaptive, blended, and flipped learning, open courseware development, composite materials mechanics, and bascule bridge design. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Florida Department of Transportation, and Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Under Professor Kaw's leadership and funding from NSF, he and his colleagues from around the nation developed, implemented, refined, and assessed online resources for open courseware in Numerical Methods. This courseware receives over 1 million page views, 1.6 million views of the YouTube lectures, and 90,000 visitors to the "numerical methods guy" blog annually. This courseware is also used to measure the impact of flipped, blended, and adaptive settings on how well engineering students learn content, develop group-work skills, and perceive the learning environment.

Professor Kaw has written over 120 refereed technical papers, and his opinion editorials have been featured in the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Tribune, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has earned several teaching awards at the national level, including the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year Award (doctoral and research universities) from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching.