Professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, John Ochsendorf, Heather Anne Paxson, and Kristala L. J. Prather were recently named as MIT’s 2014 MacVicar Fellows.

Clockwise, from top left: Kristala L. J. Prather (photo by M. Scott Brauer); Jacopo Buongiorno (photo by Despoina Chatzikyriakou); Tomás Lozano-Pérez (photo by Melanie Gonick); Heather Anne Paxson (photo by Dominick Reuter); and John Ochsendorf (photo courtesy MacArthur Foundation).

The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program honors MIT’s best teachers and mentors, who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Over 90 MacVicar Faculty Fellows have been selected on the basis of merit through an annual nomination process beginning in 1992.

Explore courses on the OCW site from all five of this year’s Fellows:

Jacopo Buongiorno

• 22.06 Engineering of Nuclear Systems
• 22.312 Engineering of Nuclear Reactors
• 22.313J Thermal Hydraulics in Power Technology

Tomás Lozano-Pérez

• 6.01SC Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I
• 6.034 Artificial Intelligence
• 6.825 Techniques in Artificial Intelligence

John Ochsendorf

• 4.440 Basic Structural Design
• 4.448 Analysis of Historic Structures
• 4.463 Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II
• 4.491 Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop

Heather Anne Paxson

• 21A.231J Gender, Sexuality, and Society
• 21A.232J Rethinking the Family, Sex, and Gender
• 21A.265 Food and Culture
• 21A.801J Cross-Cultural Investigations: Technology and Development

Kristala L. J. Prather

• 10.442 Biochemical Engineering
• 10.492-2 Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I: Introduction to Biocatalysis