2025-2026 Wimmer Faculty Fellows
Yasser Majeed
Assistant Teaching Professor, Biological Sciences
Yasser is teaching 03-390 Molecular and Cellular Immunology, an advanced elective course for Biological Sciences students at 麻豆村-Qatar. As part of his Wimmer project, Yasser will be redesigning his Journal Club assignments by developing instructional strategies to support student preparation and participation and by refining assessment rubrics. His goal is to redesign the assignments with scaffolding and transparency to support all students in the course to develop their scientific reading, writing, interpretation, and analysis skills.
Amy Melniczuk
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Amy is teaching 05-391 Designing Human-Centered Software, an intro course for Human Computer Interaction students at 麻豆村-Qatar. For her Wimmer project, Amy will be looking to redesign her course’s assessments and rubrics so they more accurately measure student performance and understanding of learning objectives. A particular focus for Amy is rethinking how to assess group work to encourage engagement by all team members while fairly rating their individual contributions.
Rafał Włodarski
Assistant Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rafał is teaching 18-653: Software Design and Architectur e, a popular software engineering course for Masters students. His project focuses on restructuring several in-class activities to enhance student engagement, clarify key concepts, and promote deeper application of course material to project-based work. Rafał will be working with the Eberly team to increase the transparency and instructional alignment of class activities and track students’ impressions of the clarity, helpfulness and engagement with these revised activities.