Dr. Michael Peshkin, Bette and Neison Harris Professor in Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, is in the department of Mechanical Engineering. His research is in human-computer interaction, recently in haptics. He has co-founded four companies, the current one being Tanvas. His educational developments include the “lab in a backpack” method of in-class hands-on teaching of electronics, and the Lightboard for rapid production of high quality video lectures (much like Learning Glass).