{"id":162360,"date":"2025-04-30T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=162360"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:14:43","slug":"pedagogy-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/04\/30\/pedagogy-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedagogy and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

by A.J. Kleber<\/em><\/p>\n

The dual mission of a world-class research university is both to educate, and to develop and apply new forms of knowledge for the good of society; pursuits which are intrinsically linked. As a member of the\u00a0 Boston University faculty, this means \u201cintegrating cutting-edge research with a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring,\u201d according to Professor Lei Tian. Professor Tian\u2019s dedication to this very standard is being recognized with a 2025 Boston University Provost\u2019s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award.<\/span><\/p>\n

This award, which honors scholars who excel both at the practice of teaching and at pedagogy, the art and science behind the practice, carries a $5K honorarium. Awardees are invited to serve as feature faculty presenters at a <\/span>Trustee Scholars<\/span><\/a> dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Tian, who teaches courses on signals & systems and computational optical imaging, professes a desire \u201cto inspire students to become skilled engineers, lifelong learners and innovators who contribute meaningfully to society.\u201d In mentoring his research assistants, he takes a collaborative and educational approach, \u201cpromot[ing] open discussions, pos[ing] questions from fundamental perspectives, and inspir[ing] ideas rooted in basing principles,\u201d rather than providing rote instructions, thus allowing students to extrapolate and build their understanding beyond mere \u201cmechanical steps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Associate Professor Lei Tian<\/span><\/a> joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University in 2016, and is noted for significant advances in computational microscopy and imaging, among other research accomplishments. His accolades and accomplishments include a 2019 NSF CAREER Award, Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Excellence in Research (2021) and Dean\u2019s Catalyst (2018) Awards, and a number of Best Paper Awards. He is an Optica Fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Lei Tian is the recipient of a 2025 Boston University Provost\u2019s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18241,"featured_media":162362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,977,907,1066],"tags":[512,793,835,1207,1334,1204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162360\/revisions\/162363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}