Every year for the past two years the College of Engineering has put the spotlight on innovations in teaching and learning with TALIS day. This year due to Covid-19 restrictions TALIS day will be held online. It will feature a keynote presentation from Dr. Mo Jamshidi, faculty presentations and a fireside chat. Click here to RSVP.
Dr. Derin Ural, Professor in Practice and Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Welcoming remarks by College of Engineering Dean Pratim Biswas.
Zoom Link: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldeGvrDwpG9GiyBX9KuTKO4bGR5Lm7vCx Moderated by Renee Evans, CoE Senior Instructional Designer Speaker 1: Drs. Diana Arboleda and James Giancaspro Title: Teaching Distributed Forces to Engineers Using Augmented Reality and Teaching Across Borders – Hemispheric Collaboration Speaker 2: Mr. Lokesh Ramamoorthi Title: SOLES – Sustainability Oriented learning and Entrepreneural Solutions Speaker 3: Dr. Ashutosh Agarwal Title: Joint Academic Nurtureship for Underrespresented Students (JANUS): A Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M) Initiative Speaker 4: Dr. Daniel Wang Title: Learning Genetics through Dialogue and Discussion Speaker 5: Dr. Ines Basalo Title: A Day at the Lowe Art Museum: Object-Based Learning in a Materials Science Course for Engineering Speaker 6: Dr. Miriam Lipsky, Dr. Matthew Acevedo and Ms. Renee Evans Title: First Years Directions Course
Zoom Link: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucOCopzsqEtAolmTBSdbJhQqZcg4FOpDk Fireside Chat with Dean Pratim Biswas, Provost Jeffrey Duerk and Student Government Leaders of the College of Engineering: Maisy Lam, David Midric Oliver and Mohammad Ghiasian.
Introduction by: Presentation Topic: "The VI-P c Engineering Education Model for America’s Ethnic Minorities" M. Mo Jamshidi is F-IEEE, F-ASME, AF-AIAA, F-AAAS, F-TWAS F-NYAS. He received BSEE (Cum Laud) at Oregon State University in 1967, the MS and Ph.D. in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in June 1969 and February 1971, respectively. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada, 2004, Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2004 and Odlar Yourdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan in 1999. Currently, he is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Distinguished Chaired Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has over 850 technical publications including 74 books (11 textbooks), research volumes, and edited volumes in English and five foreign languages. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals. He has graduated or advising 65 PhD and 85 MS students. Among them four PhD’s among Native Americans, ten PhDs among Hispanic and eight PhD’s among African Americans. His former students are successful professionals in 22 nations around the world. Moreover, he has advised over 120 US Ethnic Minority students at MS and Ph.D. and over 850 undergraduate students. Some of his honors include, US Army Service and Achievement Medal, IEEE Centennial Medal, IEEE-USA Lifetime Award in Systems Engineering, among many other awards and honors. He is a member of the UTX System Chancellor’s Council.
Distinguished Research Professor of Engineering,
Department of Industrial Engineering, and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Miami
Fellow, IEEE, ASME, AAAS, TWAS, NYAS, AF, AIAA
Lutcher Brown Endowed Distinguished Chaired Professor
Member, U Texas System Chancellor's Council Department of Electrical and Computer Engr.
University of Texas at San Antonio