Erin Terwilleger Mullen, PhD

In the spring semester I am Math 3150: Analysis I and Math 2420Q: Honors Differential Equations. I am also serving as the faculty director of the Women in Math, Science, and Engineering (WiMSE) learning community. As part of this, last fall I taught a WiMSE FYE course for the incoming freshmen in this community and INTD 3984: WiMSE Lab Research and Outreach, a course open to all WiMSE members. In the latter course, we visited different labs across campus and did a science demonstrations in a local after school program.

I have two areas of research. First, my PhD and early research has been in the area of Harmonic Analysis, in particular using Fourier analysis to study singular integral operators and analysis on product spaces. Second, I am currently working on some projects in Math Education. I am interested in how well our different calculus sequences prepare our students, how students learn the practice of mathematical proof, and active learning teaching methods in undergraduate mathematics instruction. It is also important to me to improve K-12 mathematics instruction by increasing the mathematical content knowledge of K-12 teachers and placing more emphasis on proofs, justification, and problem solving.