Edwin F. Meyer

Ed received his PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1989. After graduation, he because a research scientist for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) where he worked until 2000 when became a professor of Physics at Baldwin Wallace University.

While at ICI, Ed became a recruiter and was sent to universities to hire the top graduates. For the most part, he was disappointed in the candidates' ability to aggressively attack challenging problems. When Ed posed a challenging problem during an interview, he often got responses like "I didn't have that in school," or "I don't know how to do it," or even, "give me a hint."

To address the lack of problem solving training, Ed returned to academia to teach problem solving. In 2002, Baldwin Wallace University became the first University anywhere to offer for credit courses on problem solving. Ed, along with co-teacher Professor Meridith Witt, currently teaches two levels of problem solving courses at BWU, General Problem Solving and Quantitative Problem Solving.

While at BWU, he founded the Gedanken Institute for Problem Solving, which promotes the development of problem solving skills at all levels through guest lectures, workshops, in-services and seminars.