Frueh selected as Bruhn Award winner
Carolin Frueh, an associate professor in AAE, has been chosen by the School’s undergraduate student body as the Elmer F. Bruhn Award winner.
The award, presented annually to an outstanding teacher in AAE, is given for excellence in teaching and made possible by the interest and generosity of friends and alumni of the School. Students select faculty based on five factors: clarity of presentation of subject matter, creating student interest in the subject, relating engineering theory and practice, intellectual challenge to the student, and development of logical approaches and critical evaluation.
Frueh has taught two undergraduate courses since she joined AAE faculty in 2014, “Dynamics and Vibration” (AAE340) and “Aeromechanics” (AAE203).
This is Frueh’s first teaching award from the School.
“I am very honored by this award,” Frueh said. “I’m thankful to the undergraduate students. I love working with them. They are great. The classes I teach are not easy, and I know they all work very hard.
“I would also like to extend thanks and acknowledgment to Alexander Burton, my teaching fellow, who co-taught a section of AAE340 with me this past spring, in the semester with the sudden switch to the online mode. Thank you also to all the TAs and graders over the years that support the teaching work.”
Professors Timothée Pourpoint, Joseph Jewell and Haifeng Wang rounded out the top-four voting for the award. Kathleen Howell and Jonathan Poggie weren’t eligible for consideration after receiving the award the past two years.
The winner of the Bruhn Award becomes the School’s nominee for the College of Engineering’s annual A.A. Potter Best Teacher Award.