{"id":52236,"date":"2023-07-31T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=52236"},"modified":"2023-07-31T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:11:02","slug":"wilson-college-of-textiles-faculty-members-engaging-teaching-methods-earn-her-professional-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/wilson-college-of-textiles-faculty-members-engaging-teaching-methods-earn-her-professional-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson College of Textiles Faculty Member\u2019s Engaging Teaching Methods Earn Her Professional Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>By Sean Cudahy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not many of us can say we\u2019re truly doing the job we\u2019d envisioned as a child. Perhaps even fewer of us can<em> <\/em><strong>also<\/strong> say we\u2019re in that role thanks to the help of direct, professional lessons from our parents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/\">Wilson College of Textiles<\/a> Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/people\/xfang3\/\">Xiaomeng Fang<\/a> can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, her passion for teaching has roots in the many childhood days she sat in a high school classroom in China, watching her mother instruct students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI found teaching is one of my passions,\u201d Fang says, thinking back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That familial connection to the profession made it even sweeter when Fang learned she was among 17 NC&#160;State University faculty members awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/provost.ncsu.edu\/ofe\/awards-and-honors\/outstanding-teacher\/\">Outstanding Teacher Award<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing excellence in teaching at all levels, the accolades require sign-off from the university\u2019s executive vice chancellor and provost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask Fang, and she\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s a reflection of how much <strong>she\u2019s<\/strong> learned, while helping others do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An evolving, engaging teaching approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fang arrived on the NC&#160;State campus in 2013 after earning her bachelor\u2019s and her master\u2019s at Donghua University\u00a0 in Shanghai, China. First a doctoral student in the Wilson College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/academics\/graduate\/fiber-and-polymer-science\/\">fiber and polymer science program<\/a>, Fang went on to become a teaching assistant, lecturer, and eventually, in August 2019, an assistant professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ncsu.edu\/undergraduate\/textiles\/textile-engineering-chemistry-science\/#text\">Department of Textile, Engineering, Chemistry and Science.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the earliest days of her teaching career, marked by meticulously-planned lectures, Fang\u2019s evolving teaching methods have quickly garnered the attention of her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/people\/eshim\/\">Eunkyoung Shim<\/a> peer reviewed one of Fang\u2019s knitting technology courses last year, and came away viewing her as \u201cenergetic, patient and creative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was most impressed by how Dr. Fang engaged with students, promoted participation, and effectively facilitated and guided class discussion,\u201d Shim wrote in a letter supporting Fang\u2019s nomination for the Outstanding Teacher award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about such compliments, Fang credits her innovative active teaching methods \u2014 strategies that might, in any one class, see her incorporating media, animations, images, and student-led demonstrations to explain technologies at the heart of her courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are not just teaching students to memorize everything,\u201d Fang says. \u201cI want them to teach themselves. I just lead them to the topic and let them dig more, and that\u2019s the way they learn more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her goal \u2014&nbsp;to prepare students for the real world \u2014 seems to be working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. Fang pushed us to think about how we might use the concepts and methods we were learning later in our career,\u201d wrote 2023 Wilson College graduate Carson Jenkins, who lauded Fang\u2019s \u201cabove and beyond\u201d efforts to engage students during a pandemic-induced fully remote course in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An innovative researcher&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just Fang\u2019s engaging teaching efforts that have defined her growth within the Wilson College of Textiles; it\u2019s also the groundbreaking research she\u2019s undertaken throughout her time on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In running the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.textiles.ncsu.edu\/fang-research-group\/\">Fang Research Group<\/a>, her principal focus centers around integrating fiber electronics into textiles and examining how the application of fibers and textiles can solve quality of life issues related to health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s the diversity of the faculty and vast areas of focus she feels makes the Wilson College an ideal place to learn and grow, with the help of world class research facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an experience I think you cannot get anywhere else,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-ncst-pullquote has-red-400-text-color has-quotes\"><div class=\"pullquote-container\"><p class=\"pullquote-content\">We are not just teaching students to memorize everything. 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