Dr. Richard M. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, an introductory chemical engineering text now in its third edition. He has contributed over 150 publications to the fields of science and engineering education and chemical process engineering, and writes "Random Thoughts," a column on educational methods and issues for the quarterly journal Chemical Engineering Education. With Dr. Rebecca Brent, he codirects the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) and regularly offers teaching effectiveness workshops on campuses and at conferences around the world.

Dr. Felder's papers and workshops focus primarily on active and cooperative learning and other instructional methods designed to reach a variety of learning styles. He coordinated the design and development of IMPEC (Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Chemistry Curriculum), an experimental integrated first-year engineering curriculum at North Carolina State University, under the sponsorship of the SUCCEED Coalition.

Dr. Rebecca Brent is an educational consultant, co-director of the faculty development program of the National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition, and Adjunct Professor of Education at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in classroom organization and management, instructional planning, and language arts methods, and published articles on uses of writing in undergraduate courses, classroom and computer-based simulations in teacher education, and the promotion of listening skills in students. With Dr. Richard Felder, she has presented faculty development workshops throughout the United States and abroad. She was formerly an Associate Professor of Education at East Carolina University, where she won the University Outstanding Teacher Award.