Michael Gross
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering
National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner Michael Gross is a founding faculty member of WFU's undergraduate program in engineering.
Biography
As a founding faculty member of Wake Forest’s new undergraduate program in engineering, chemical engineer Michael Gross gets to feed two passions: his love for science and his fascination with the philosophy of teaching. He has been a standout in both areas, receiving the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award… Read More »
As a founding faculty member of Wake Forest’s new undergraduate program in engineering, chemical engineer Michael Gross gets to feed two passions: his love for science and his fascination with the philosophy of teaching. He has been a standout in both areas, receiving the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award in 2017. The prize provides him with $500,000 in funding over five years to study high-powered fuel cell technologies. It also honors junior faculty who are noted teacher-scholars, integrating research and education. He also received the 2015 Wake Forest University Innovative Teaching Award.
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Areas of Expertise
- Activity-level or situational student motivation in STEM courses and practical course design
- Adsorption calorimetry
- Chemical Engineering
- Composite engineering
- Green technologies
- High-powered fuel cell technologies
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Materials engineering and processing
- Multifunctional ceramic composites for solid oxide fuel-cell electrodes
- Solid state materials for electrochemical energy conversion
- Student motivation and motivation theory in STEM courses
Education
University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania: M.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bucknell University: B.S., Chemical Engineering
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