Aaron Titus

Aaron Patrick Titus (born April 6, 1971) is an American professor of physics at North Carolina State University (NCSU), and co-founder of the online learning and homework service WebAssign. Titus has won multiple teaching awards for his work in tertiary education. Born in Wenatchee, Washington, he received his B.S. in physics from Penn State University in 1993, married his wife Kimberly Jo Titus (née Gossett) in 1994, and completed his Ph.D. in physics from NCSU in 1998. A year prior, Titus collaborated with North Park University professor Larry Martin to merge each of their respective online learning and homework services together to create WebAssign. Titus then began to teach at North Carolina A&T State University from 1998 to 2002, then at High Point University (HPU) until 2022, and has taught at NCSU since. Titus has started multiple sponsored projects aimed at improving education in targeted areas. At HPU in particular, Titus played a key role in establishing the university's physics major and Department of Physics, serving as the new department's first chair. Titus also co-authored the 5th edition of the introductory calculus-based physics textbook Matter and Interactions, after contributing to the two preceding editions. Titus received the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching Service Award in 2011, the highest teaching distinction at HPU, and the Excellence in Physics Education Award of the American Physical Society in 2019, shared with an eighteen-member Open Source Physics Team.