Pervasive Computing

Dr. Sajal K. Das

das@cse.uta.edu

http://crewman.uta.edu

http://mavhome.uta.edu

Excellent Teaching Philosophy. I am highly impressed:

My philosophy is to educate students in developing aptitude and analytical skills for problem solving. I don't believe in spoon-feeding lectures or hand-out notes without providing insights and fundamental concepts. My classes are challenging yet interactive, where students have ample opportunities to express original ideas and thoughts.
Although I am very active in funded research and supervise every semester about half a dozen PhD and MS students (as a matter of fact I have been generating above 15 TLC every semester in the last several years), yet class teaching has always been my priority. I continuously revise course material, devote a significant amount of time to prepare lectures and formulate homeworks, and innovate effective teaching methods. I try to bring cutting-edge research and technology to the classroom environment. Indeed most of my research students were first motivated from my class lectures.

In my opinion, a classroom is a place for mutual learning. Then only the true mission of a total education be fulfilled. My teaching philosophy can best be described by the following quote from the famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 1913.

"A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them."