Engineering Education Innovation Academy

The Engineering Education Innovation Academy (EEIA) offered by the Leonhard Center provides the opportunity for individual faculty to implement innovative changes in engineering courses in close collaboration with the faculty of the Leonhard Center. EEIA begins with a two-day, interactive workshop to introduce faculty members to best practices in instructional design, fundamentals of classroom assessment, and best practices in engineering education based on research. The interactive workshop provides a foundation to ensure that the enhancements being implemented in the classroom are well grounded in best practices in educational design and assessment, and that they are based on appropriate literature. Following the initial workshop, faculty members continue work to complete their education and assessment plans. They meet with Leonhard Center faculty to share their plans and receive feedback. It is an expectation of the program that the plans will be implemented during the following academic year and that results of the assessment will be shared with the Leonhard Center and at the Leonhard Center showcase event.

The EEIA received external funding for 2020 and 2021 to refocus into the Entrepreneurial Mindset for Innovative Teaching (EMIT) Academy, which was modeled after the NSF-funded Innovation Corps (iCorps) experience. In iCorps, faculty work through a curriculum to help bring technology concepts to market. In the EMIT Academy, faculty will apply similar entrepreneurial principles and processes as iCorps to teaching innovation and evaluation. Faculty will create a revised version of a business canvas model, made more applicable to the teaching context, and be asked to participate in various entrepreneurship-related activities, including customer (student) discovery. Using an attribute-focused perspective of entrepreneurial mindset, principles relating to curiosity, empathy, growth mindset, and other attributes will be woven into the workshop curriculum, both in terms of how these attributes relate to effective teaching as well as how to promote them in students.

The EMIT Academy was funded by the Kern Family Foundation through the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) as a subcontract from the ASU Mentorship 360 project.

Past Participants in the EEIA

2022

• Saurabh Basu
  Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
• Griselda Conejo Lopez
  Computer Science & Engineering
• Ali Demirci
  Agricultural & Biological Engineering
• Sean Knecht
  Engineering Design & Innovation
• Reuben Kraft
  Mechanical Engineering
• Martin Nieto-Perez
  Nuclear Engineering
• Adomas Povilianskas
  Engineering Science & Mechanics
• David Stabler
  Architectural Engineering
• Michelle Vigeant
  Acoustics

2021

• Jake Langelaan
  Aerospace Engineering
• Pansy Leung
  Mechanical Engineering
• Mechteld Hillsley
  Chemical Engineering
• Andrea Ragonese
  School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI)
• Sandra Allain
  School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI)
• Mike Janik
  Chemical Engineering
• Somayeh Asadi
  Architectural Engineering
• Tong Qiu
  Civil and Environmental Engineering

2020

• Gary Aurand
  Chemical Engineering
• Gregory Huff
  Electrical Engineering
• Jude Liu
  Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Alfonso Mejia
  Civil Engineering
• Lucas Passmore
  Engineering Science and Mechanics
• Charlie Purdum
  Industrial Engineering
• John Regan
  Civil Engineering
• Sarah Root
  Industrial Engineering
• Parisa Shokouhi
  Engineering Science and Mechanics

2019

The Academy was not held in 2019.

2018

• John Gershenson
  Design Your Own Adventure – A First Year Seminar in defining a personal, problem-based path to Engineering for Humanity
• Ilgun Guler
  Inquiry Based Learning in Civil Engineering
• Jason Moore
  ME 340 Project Development for Community Engagement with State College School District
• Elizabeth Sikora
  Engineering for Community Engagement (redesign of existing ESC 097 FYS)
• Ryan Solnosky
  Enhancing Real Structural Systems’ Exposure in a Steel Design Class via Technology & Classroom Flip
• Alan Wagner
  Using Social Impact Model to Foster Ethical Thinking in Engineering

2017

• Rachel Brennan
  Motivating Inquiry, Creativity, and Innovation through Incentive-Based Design Projects in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Vikash Gayah
  Personalized Learning Plan for Pre-requisite Material
• Swaroop Ghosh
  Self-Learning Cybersecurity Training (CST) Kit for Cybersecurity Education
• Tim Kane
  Freshman Seminar Project-based Experience, collaborative with student chapter of IEEE
• Frank Koe
  Applying Entrepreneurial Principles within Medium-to-Large Companies
• Andrew Zydney
  Strengthening Problem-Solving Skills in CHE 210 – Introduction to Materials Balances