Kevin Mcleod

Biography

 Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota, He won a TA teaching award from the School of Mathematics in 1981. In 1991, the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UWM was asked to recommend 3 faculty members for a teaching merit raise, and he was one of the 3 recommended. He assists with the Department’s annual orientation for its Teaching Assistants, and for several years he was the sole administrator of the Ernst Schwandt teaching award. As such, he looked at teaching evaluations for all our TAs, and observed the top 5 or 6 candidates in the classroom. Since 1989, with the exception of the sabbatical year, he was the Department’s co-ordinator for the Putnam Mathematical Competition. (The 1 ‘Putnam exam’ is a challenging national examination in mathematics, designed to identify particularly talented undergraduates. I typically run weekly practice sessions throughout the Fall semester, and then proctor the exam on the first Saturday in December.) In addition to these ongoing activities, He had two major projects related to teaching while at UWM: an Honors Calculus course, and teaching with technology, including the Department’s Calculus Computer Lab. He had also developed a course on the history of science for the Honors Program.

Research Interest

 Functional Analysis ·         Differential Equation ·         Mathematical Physics ·         Mathematics Education