Annual Professional Development Report 2015-2016

 Erik Insko, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Overview

This report summarizes my professional activities for the period Summer 2015 through Spring 2016.   As documented in this in this annual report, I have worked extremely hard to achieve all of my short-term goals this year and made significant strides toward achieving my long term goals at FGCU. I maintained a balance of teaching, research, and service activities appropriate for FGCU and my professional development. 

The greatest portion of my time was spent on teaching-related activities. I attended a week-long workshop on Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning and a book club on Make it Stick – The Science of Successful Learning and incorporated the information and pedagogical methods I learned in those book clubs into my teaching practice. 

I worked hard to develop my research program by collaborating with faculty at FGCU, the US Military Academy, Harvey Mudd University, Sam Houston State University, and I fostered numerous research projects with FGCU undergraduates and master’s students. As a result of these efforts, I was awarded the FGCU Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award and the Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award this year, and I received internal and external funding for collaborative research, and I am building a track-record of successful research projects, that I hope will help me acquire more external research funding in the years to come. 

Finally, I served our university and mathematical community by serving on the Mathematics Colloquium, ASPiRE, STEM-Squared Grant Proposal Committee, Whitaker STEM Summer Scholarship Committees, and co-organizing the USTARS conference at Sam Houston State University and a Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics at the AMS Sectional Meeting at Rutgers University. My continued long-term goal is to integrate my teaching, research, and service in a way to serves FGCU and the community, and I certainly made great strides toward that goal this year.  

Here is a link to my Annual Report for 2015-2016.