MEM (Management & Engineering for Manufacturing) program<\/a>, a highly competitive, dual-degree business and engineering major with a manufacturing focus. <\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m really having more fun teaching than I have had at anything else in my career,\u2019\u2019 Calvert said. \u201cThis position allows me to use all of my life experiences. What I enjoy most is having an immediate impact on people\u2019s lives.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Calvert Strives for the Antithesis of a \u2018COVID Class\u2019<\/h3>\n
In numerous letters of nominations, Calvert\u2019s colleagues and students emphasized his determination to engage students with the academic material, with each other, and with their professor.<\/p>\n
Students were changed by the COVID pandemic and many seemed to lose their zeal for learning, he said. One student remarked that online and in-person classes seemed interchangeable and both felt similar to watching a video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis really impacted me,\u2019\u2019 Calvert said. \u201cGiven my interest and use of active learning, I wanted to create a supply-chain class that was as different as possible from a \u2018COVID class.\u2019 To do this I challenged myself to teach a whole course with zero PowerPoint slides.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He prides himself on being creative and innovative and changing or improving his classes each semester. Traditional lectures have been replaced by engaging discussions and small-group projects.<\/p>\n
Professor Stephen Fitzgerald said Calvert took the lead in developing and standardizing an operations-management course, that was getting lower-than-desired student ratings.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Craig\u2019s re-work, the course is full of activities, simulations, and real-world applications that make it one of our highest rated courses,\u2019\u2019 Fitzgerald said. He added that Calvert holds students to high standards, helps them develop confidence and is both highly respected and appreciated by his students.<\/p>\n
Calvert has both a master\u2019s degree in Business Analytics and Project Management and a doctorate in inorganic chemistry, both from UConn. In 2020, he won the School of Business Innovation in Teaching Award. He teaches senior design, project management, supply chain management, operations management, and data visualization courses.<\/p>\n
Professor Stephen Chapron co-taught Principles of Project management with Calvert for eight semesters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never been less than impressed,\u2019\u2019 Chapron said. \u201cWith respect to his teaching style, work ethic, character and caring for students, he demonstrates exactly what makes a great professor.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWith his teaching and course preparation, Craig has always put forward the continuous improvement mindset and never settles for the status quo or lets his work fall into autopilot mode,\u2019\u2019 Chapron said.<\/p>\n
Calvert is willing to put in extra effort to improve the overall experience of a course, his colleague said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter our first semester teaching, he felt the textbook was too expensive and set out to review alternate textbooks, and was able to find one with the same level of depth and quality that was less expensive,\u2019\u2019 Chapron said.<\/p>\n
Walking Students Through the Interview Process<\/h3>\n
Student Jenna Liseo, a senior majoring in MEM, took two courses with Calvert.<\/p>\n
\u201cProfessor Calvert is in the top tier of teachers because of his ability to connect with his students,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cHe knows all of his students by name and is able to incorporate all of his students into the class activities.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Liseo said she spent most of this year job hunting and took advantage of Calvert\u2019s invitation to stop by for career advice. For one key job prospect, he assisted her with a mock interview, a sales pitch, and introduced her to another student who was knowledgeable about the company. With the help of his preparation, she received a job offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took time out of his own work day to go above and beyond for his students, and his support is something I will carry with me,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI know he will be someone I remain in contact with even beyond my time at UConn.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n
MEM student Michael Kwok said Calvert helped him secure an internship with a Fortune 500 company. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants his teaching to provide not only knowledge, but a sense of friendship as well, in a world that seems to want more kind-hearted people,\u2019\u2019 Kwok said.<\/p>\n
A virtual ZOOM ceremony is planned on Monday, April 24th, at noon. All are welcome. Please RSVP to BarbaraK@uconnaaup.org<\/a> to receive the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years ago, Calvert began working as an adjunct professor at UConn, and found his passion in the classroom. He joined the full-time OPIM faculty in 2018. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he is the co-director of the MEM (Management & Engineering for Manufacturing) program, a highly competitive, dual-degree business and engineering major with a manufacturing focus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":197079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1862],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2105],"class_list":["post-197078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-busn"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197082,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078\/revisions\/197082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/197079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197078"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=197078"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=197078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}