Biography

Michael C. Loui earned the B.S. degree at Yale University in 1975, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and 1980.

Since 1981, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

From 1990 to 1991, Professor Loui directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 1996 to 2000, he was an associate dean of the Graduate College at Illinois, with administrative responsibility for all graduate academic programs on campus, and he was the campus’s research integrity officer for two years. Currently he is an executive editor of College Teaching, and he also serves on the editorial boards of Accountability in Research and Teaching Ethics. He is a member of the Advisory Group for the Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering, and the Executive Board of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics.

In 1985, Professor Loui won the Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award of the American Society for Engineering Education. At Illinois, in 1995, he received the campus’s Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001, he was designated a University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. In 2003, he was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2006, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE.