{"id":23540,"date":"2013-08-06T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/06\/outstanding-lecturer-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:47:21","slug":"outstanding-lecturer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/06\/outstanding-lecturer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4899\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/2013\/08\/outstanding-lecturer-2\/department-lake-campus-engineering-technologytitle-lecturerpresidents-award-for-excellence\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4899\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4899\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/files\/2013\/08\/Dennis-Hance-8-13-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Hance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dennis Hance has served as an adjunct faculty member since 2000 and full-time lecturer of mechanical engineering at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He has played a vital role in the growth of the Mechanical Engineering program, laying the foundation for improved instruction. In the classroom, he emphasizes hands-on and project-based learning. Committed to helping students succeed, he spends a remarkable amount of time, including evenings and weekends, assisting students with their undergraduate studies and career pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Hance has worked with local agricultural businesses and students to design and prototype low-cost, multiuse autonomous farming equipment; developed and manages the freshman orientation for the Mechanical Engineering program at the Lake Campus; and established partnerships with local industries to provide meaningful experiential learning for his students, leading to internships and full-time employment.<\/p>\n<p>Hance also serves as chair of the redesign and redevelopment of two undergraduate mechanical engineering courses, and served as lecturer for the University of Applied Sciences study-abroad course in Germany this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He created and now advises the Lake Engineering Club, the Lake Robotics Club, and the Engineering without Borders student organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has placed Wright State University, the Engineering program, and the Lake Campus in a strong, more robust position,\u201d said Ruby Mawasha, assistant dean in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and director of Engineering and Computer Science programs at the Lake Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Hance has served as an adjunct faculty member since 2000 and full-time lecturer of mechanical engineering at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus since 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/06\/outstanding-lecturer-2\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":23786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,2402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-presidents-awards-for-excellence","series-faculty-awards-for-excellence-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23785,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23540\/revisions\/23785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}