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Teaching

Current responsibilities

See also

• SESG1009 Modelling and Computing
  
• SESG2006 Computing
• SESG3020 Programming Primer
• SESG6025 Advanced Computational Methods I
• SESG6028 Advanced Computational Methods II

Awards

	The Aerospace Engineering students voted Hans the "Best lecturer of the year 2003"
	The students of the School of Engineering Sciences voted Hans to be one of the funniest lecturers (together with Dr. A. R. Chambers and Dr N. Stephen) in 2003. The prize is a Bart Simpson poster (which is now attached to his office door).
	Hans was voted second best Lecturer by the Aerospace Engineering students in 2004 (and got a box of very nice chocolates for this).
	Hans was voted to be the Lecturer with the best sense of humour by all the students in the School of Engineering Science in 2004. (And got two Homer Simpson posters for this (no pictures available as yet) [In fact, there was also a small box of chocolates].) No further student votes have been taken in the following years.
	Hans was the delegate of the University of Southampton for the Young Education Programme 2005 and the winner in the group category (with A Cobson, H Carter and D Meikle). He is now a senior fellow of the Young UK and Ireland Programme.
	In 2006, Hans was awarded the Deputy Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Innovation (£1000) in his educational activities: He re-developed the computing curriculum in the School of Engineering Sciences from 2002 onwards and introduced new learning and teaching methods in large-class modules. He has modified the structure of the lectures, and introduced laboratory sessions in which students tackle tasks in a self-paced manner to improve their problem-solving skills. He introduced a help session in which interested students can seek practical advice either to catch up or to extend their skills beyond the course expectations. The new course structure and the modified content was warmly welcomed by the student body.
	In 2010, Hans was awarded the Deputy Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Innovation (£ 1000) in his educational activities (jointly with Prof Martyn Hill and Sarah Rogers) for the development and implementation of the Elevator Pitch Funding of Group Design Projects: "The Elevator Pitch has paved the way for the development of other +> enterprise activities and the Award recognises the value placed on this by the School."

Research in education

Hans is investigating novel learning methods in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students computational science. This includes changes in the learning activities, learning environment and use of modern software engineering approaches and languages.

Selected references:

• H. Fangohr.
  A Comparison of C, Matlab and Python as Teaching Languages in Engineering. Lecture Notes on Computational Science 3039, 1210-1217 (2004) (available online)


• H. Fangohr.
  Exploiting Real-Time 3d Visualisation to Enthuse Students: A Case Study of Using Visual Python in Engineering. Lecture Notes on Computational Science 3992, 136-146 (2006) (available online)

Outreach

Recently, Hans had the chance to teach secondary school pupils some fundamental physics ('the pendulum' can be seen in the picture).

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