#  Marko named Harvard College Professor. 

 





May 03, 2017

 

 

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 **From Harvard Gazette**[ \[link\]](/)

 When Lončar began teaching Introduction to Electrical Engineering five years ago, 19 students were enrolled. The course has since exploded in popularity, growing to 220 students representing a variety of concentrations.

 What was behind the transformation?

 “Over the years, I made the course more hands-on,” Lončar explained. “We replaced final exams with projects. We also incorporated more robotics into the labs. It’s so rewarding to watch students design and program robotic systems in a final project who knew nothing about them at the beginning of the semester.”

 Lončar didn’t hit his hands-on learning stride immediately, though.

 “Early in my career, I took sort of a fire-hose approach to education: I thought it was my responsibility to communicate everything I knew,” he said. “But I’ve since taken a more modular approach to make the material more accessible. It’s more focused on how things work without hiding behind lots of math.”



 

 

 



 

 

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