Congratulations to our own Jennifer Farmer on winning a Faculty Teaching Award. This award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding classroom instruction and develops innovative teaching methods.
Taken from U of T Engineering News:
Farmer is an associate professor, teaching stream and the inaugural associate chair, undergraduate student experience in ChemE. Farmer’s leadership in ChemE’s curriculum modernization project has led to the development of innovative pedagogy and upgraded infrastructure, as well as better integration between courses and between years.
Most notably, she completely redesigned ChemE’s two second-year lab courses to include new chemistry content and engineering concepts, and to create better linkages between the two. Farmer created innovative labs that allow students to bring together knowledge and perspectives from different courses to analyze and develop lab-based approaches to real-world problems through project-based learning.
Her commitment to students goes far beyond the classroom — she serves as a faculty liaison for several student clubs and joins in many extracurricular student-organized events. Farmer’s pedagogical innovations have led to conference presentations and papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her outstanding teaching earned her ChemE’s Diran Basmadjian Teacher of the Year Award for Small Classes in 2018 and 2023 and the Wighton Fellowship, a national award for excellence in laboratory teaching, in 2024.