Academic Innovators

Carla van de Sande, associate professor of mathematics education at ASU, created a program to help students practice key math concepts over academic breaks. Keep In School Shape (KiSS) emails or texts students daily challenges so they can keep their skills sharp between calculus courses.

Daniel Frank has created a learning environment that cultivates imagination in his first year engineering courses. Frank’s innovation had him taking a few clues from a popular television series and creating fictional customer for his students to design for.

Steve Millman, a Professor of Practice in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, programmed his own software that randomly generates practice problems for his Digital Design course, called Logic Tutor.

Carla van de Sande, associate professor of mathematics education at ASU, created a program to help students practice key math concepts over academic breaks. Keep In School Shape (KiSS) emails or texts students daily challenges so they can keep their skills sharp between calculus courses.

Daniel Frank has created a learning environment that cultivates imagination in his first year engineering courses. Frank’s innovation had him taking a few clues from a popular television series and creating fictional customer for his students to design for.

Steve Millman, a Professor of Practice in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, programmed his own software that randomly generates practice problems for his Digital Design course, called Logic Tutor.