Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Dan Baker
Email: Dan.Baker@colostate.edu Phone: 970.491.0261
Dan Baker is a full-time teacher and is the primary instructor for both the on-campus and online sections of CIVE 260 Statics and CIVE 261 Dynamics which are taken by all Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, and Bio-Medical engineering students. He has a keen interested in active learning and has a particular interest in both physical and virtual interactive learning tools. He learned of his love for teaching as a tour boat captain during his college summers. Dan has a PhD from Colorado State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado.
Samuel Bechara
Email: Samuel.Bechara@colostate.edu
Dr. Bechara is not your average engineering professor. He’s a rebel with a cause – to revolutionize the way engineering is taught. After earning his B.S. in Bioengineering from Washington State University in 2008 and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Colorado State University in 2012, Dr. Bechara hit the ground running.
He founded Hyperion Labs, a failed technology company, and even worked as an AP Physics high school physics teacher and FIRST robotics coach in Tacoma, Washington. But that’s not all. Dr. Bechara then went on to become the Assistant Chair and Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University joint department. Currently, Dr. Bechara has his dream job of teaching Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering students at Colorado State University.
Dr. Bechara’s passion lies in teaching, especially working with undergraduate students. He’s interested in engineering education research and effective teaching methods, and he loves nothing more than sharing his knowledge with eager young minds. With Dr. Bechara at the helm, the future of engineering education looks bright.