{"id":57197,"date":"2016-09-06T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/06\/outstanding-instructor-4\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:47:57","slug":"outstanding-instructor-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/06\/outstanding-instructor-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a> has not only transformed one of its students, but it also has been transformed by the work and commitment of a college alumnus and faculty member\u00a0Craig M. Baudendistel.<\/p>\n<p>Baudendistel, director of engineering mathematics and an instructor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/mechanical-and-materials-engineering\">Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering<\/a>, has been part of the Wright State community since his undergraduate years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57201\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/2016\/07\/outstanding-instructor-4\/17507-denise-robinow-presidential-awards-for-excellence-faculty-portraits-6-1-16-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57201\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8262\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/files\/2016\/07\/17507-110-Craig-Baudendistel-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Craig M. Baudendistel\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig M. Baudendistel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have personally witnessed the development of his tremendous gift for teaching \u2014 the ability to meet his students exactly where they are, regardless of their background, preparation or intended engineering major,\u201d said Nathan W. Klingbeil, dean of the college and Baudendistel\u2019s instructor, mentor and advisor during his undergraduate and graduate years at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the faculty, Baudendistel has assisted in the development of an online engineering course that can facilitate a co-instruction implementation at virtually any high school in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>He has received teaching requests from many students and has earned high student rankings, earning a cumulative student evaluation rank of 4.9 out of 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents consistently submit comments like \u2018Dr. B is the best professor I\u2019ve had in any class ever,\u2019 along with numerous requests to \u2018teach more classes,\u2019\u201d said George Huang, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Baudendistel has been a faculty mentor for many local high schools. He also teaches in Wright State\u2019s Academic Advantage Program, helping to remediate the mathematics skills of incoming freshmen during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that Dr. Baudendistel is a superb teacher, mentor and asset to CECS,\u201d said Huang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus and current faculty member Craig M. Baudendistel has helped transform the College of Engineering and Computer Science.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/06\/outstanding-instructor-4\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":57209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,2402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-presidents-awards-for-excellence","series-faculty-awards-for-excellence-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57205,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197\/revisions\/57205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}