Mechanix is used at TAMU, Georgia Tech, LeTourneau University, San Jose State University, and Texas State University. Her SketchTivity software teaches engineers how to draw in 2D-perspective with automatic feedback on their hand-drawn diagrams. SketchTivity is being used at Georgia Tech, TAMU, and San Jose State University. In this talk Dr. Hammond will provide an overview of her engineering education research projects and their impact. She will also cover various initiatives that she has started as Chair of the TAMU Engineering Education Faculty and Director of the TAMU Institute of Engineering Education and Innovation. These initiatives include, among other things, creating multiple communities of practice, increasing involvement in engineering education research at the faculty and graduate level, as well as advancing, pioneering, advocating, and publishing inclusive teaching practices.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Hammond is Director of the Texas A&M University Institute of Engineering Education & Innovation and Chair of the Engineering Education Faculty. Additionally, Hammond is Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and a member of the Center for Population and Aging, the Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems, and the Institute for Data Science. Hammond holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and FTO (Finance Technology Option) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and four degrees from Columbia University; an M.S in Anthropology, an M.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Mathematics, and a B.S. in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.

Hammond has received over $13.5 million in research funding NSF, DARPA, Google, Microsoft, and others. Over $8.5 million of that has come from 34 education research grants, including $7.8 million from 16 NSF engineering education awards. Dr. Hammond has received 13 honors or awards based on her teaching research in engineering education, including multiple best-paper awards on her educational software. Hammond mentored 17 UG theses (and many more non-thesis UG through 351 undergraduate research semesters taught), 29 M.S. theses, and 9 Ph.D. dissertations. Hammond is an ACM Distinguished Member, the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award, and the 2011-2012 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. '45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources.

Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.