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Academic Innovators: Helen Chavez
Helen Chavez, an Assistant Teaching Professor, passes on her knowledge to engineers in their first year. Throughout the term, students delve deeply into the intricacies of responsible engineering through a hands-on, team-based 10-week-long project. The pursuit of inclusion and diversity is necessary, as visually impaired individuals experience the struggle of navigation in a world not inherently designed to accommodate them.
Hub in the News: Hub Team Checks Large Language Model Knowledge about Technology-Enhanced Student Success Programs
Several FSE Learning and Teaching Hub members published a peer-reviewed article in the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning on exploring technology-enhanced learning scholarship and Generative Artificial Intelligence for student success programs.
Hub in the News: Peter van Leusen on Courseware Selection
Peter van Leusen is the Director of Digital Learning Initiatives at the Learning and Teaching Hub and a member of the CourseGateway Governance Board where he contributes his experience identifying practices and technology solutions that can serve the most students. In a recent article, he sheds light on the challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid growth of Fulton's engineering programs and the role of courseware.
Academic Innovators: FSE100 AR Project, Anoop Grewal, Ph.D.
Anoop Grewal, an Associate Teaching Professor in the Fulton School at ASU, developed new ways to teach concepts in FSE100: Introduction to Engineering, a foundational course designed to introduce engineering principles and problem-solving methodologies for first-year students. Demonstrating his penchant for innovation, Grewal recently pioneered an initiative to integrate Augmented Reality (AR) technology into the FSE100 curriculum.
Academic Innovators: Virtual Labs (Milcarek & Wilbur)
To ensure that students in the online program could still derive substantive practical experiences, faculty members Ryan Milcarek and Josh Wilbur devised novel and forward-thinking virtual laboratories and simulations that not only maintained the foundational learning objectives, but also enhanced students' ability to navigate uncertainties in data acquisition and analytical processes.
Academic Innovators: Steven Ayer VR Accident Training
Under the leadership of Steven Ayer, Associate Professor of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, a groundbreaking teaching innovation has come to life; where augmented and virtual reality meet engineering education to provide students with accessible, multidimensional, and cost-efficient learning experiences.
Academic Innovators: Chao Wang’s MATLAB story
Chao Wang, an associate teaching professor in Academic and Student Affairs within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, is transforming the way engineering students learn at ASU. As part of her Introduction to Engineering course, Wang is incorporating technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things into her curriculum, providing students with hands-on experience and real-world problem-solving skills.
Academic Innovators: Carla van de Sande’s Keep in School Shape (KiSS) Program
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.
Academic Innovators: Dan Frank’s Imaginative Rusty’s Riddles
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 a fictional customer for his students to design for.
Academic Innovators: Steve Millman’s Logic Tutor and Flipped Classes
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.