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Hadas Ritz

Teaching Professor

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Hadas Ritz
Hadas Ritz

Biography

Hadas Ritz is a Teaching Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Faculty Teaching Fellow in the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) at Cornell University. She teaches required and elective courses covering a wide range of topics in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum, including courses in engineering mathematics, solid mechanics, and dynamics. Through MTEI, she works with colleagues in Duffield Engineering to improve teaching, with a focus on advising new faculty members. Her main teaching interests include solid mechanics and engineering mathematics. Among other awards, Ritz was recognized with the Cornell Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year award in 2019, and the ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award in 2021. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 2008.

Research Interests

Mastery based grading, standards based grading, active learning, authentic assessment.

Teaching Interests

Solid mechanics, engineering mathematics, introduction to mechanical engineering, and other undergraduate courses in mechanical engineering.

Select Publications

  • Ritz, H., Wagner, S. (2024, June), “Keys to success for an alternative grading scheme in a large enrollment differential equations course.” Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR.

  • Ford, M., Fatehiboroujeni, S., Fisher, E., Ritz, H. “A hands-on guided-inquiry materials laboratory that supports student agency”. Advances in Engineering Education 11.1 (2023): n1.

  • Ritz, H., Schneider-Bentley, L. “Collaborative Problem Solving at Chalkboard vs. on Paper for First-Year Calculus”. Advances in Engineering Education 6.3 (2018): n3.

  • Ritz, Hadas, P.R. Dawson, Tito Marin. 2010. “Analyzing the orientation dependence of stresses in polycrystals using vertices of the single crystal yield surface and crystallographic fibers of orientation space.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 58: 54-72.

  • Ritz, Hadas, P.R. Dawson. 2009. “Sensitivity to grain discretization of the simulated crystal stress distributions in FCC polycrystals.”Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 17 (015001).

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Select Awards and Honors

  • Albert R. George Endowed Faculty Award for Student Project Team Mentorship, Cornell University 2024
  • American Society of Engineering Education National Outstanding Teaching Award (ASEE) 2021
  • Michael Tien ’72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2020
  • Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2019
  • Ralph S. Watts '72 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2013

Education

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois 2001
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University 2005
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University 2008

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