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1997 Effective Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering Workshop The workshop was held in Denver at the Oxford Hotel in June 1997. The Academic Careers Workshop was held in the same location. These workshops immediately followed the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Attendees actively participated individually, in pairs and in small groups. This workshop was intended for new faculty members teaching college and university courses in computer science and engineering. The workshop leader was Michael R. Williams a professor of computer science at the University of Calgary. Williams graduated with a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Alberta and earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Glasgow. He joined the University of Calgary, first in the Department of Mathematics, then as a professor of computer science. Besides his work as editor-in-chief of the journal The Annals of the History of Computing, he has worked closely with the IEEE History Committee (serving as its chair in 1994 and 1995) and the IEEE History Center, and he is a member of editorial boards concerned with publishing material in the area of the history of computing. During his career he has received several awards, the most notable including: The C.C. Gotlieb Award, presented in May 1990 by the Canadian prime minister "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Canadian Information Processing Society and to the profession on CIPS' behalf." University of Calgary, Faculty of Science, Award of Excellence for Consistently Outstanding Contributions in Teaching, April 1993. Past Workshops: Effective Teaching Workshop, 1998 Effective Teaching Workshop, 1997 Copyright © 2004 Computing Research Association. All Rights Reserved. Questions? E-mail: webmaster@cra.org.