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My design work, teaching and research have been recognized all over the world. I'm humbled by the rewards and accolades and continue to strive every day to improve and grow.
GA Dept of Education Keynote Speaker
2018 Georgia STEM/STEAM Forum: GA Dept. of Education: Oct 22nd, 2018: Design Thinking in K-12 Education, Athens, GA: Keynote Speaker
DIS2017: HCI Scotland
Everyone Can Sketch: Reviving Hand Drawn Sketching with an Intelligent Tutoring System Designing Interactive Systems [DIS2017] HCI ACM Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland June 2017
EVA 2016 Speaker
EVA London 2016: July 2016 Electronic Visualization and the Arts London 2016
Author and Speaker: "An Intelligent Pen-Based Online Educaiton Platform for Design Sketching Instruction."
Invited Speaker
Creative Disruption Conference: November 2015 81st Annual Convention - AIA Minnesota Chapter Invited Speaker: Tenets for the 21st Century Designer.
Feature Presenter
Leadership Summit: Design Innovation & Technology: January 2015 Design Futures Council Feature Presenter: "The 21st Century Designer and Innovator"
Design Bloc Founded
Winter 2014 Georgia Institute of Technology Oliver Gift supports endowment fund for the Oliver Professor of Practice position and multidisciplinary design and innovation center, the Innovation and Design Collaborative, aka "Design Bloc" is established.
NSF Research Grant
PerSketchTivity- Empowering and Inspiring Creative, Competent, Communicative and Effective Engineers through Perspective Sketching
National Science Foundation awarded online sketching platform.
Most Admired Educator for 2015
DesignIntelligence: November 2014 (for 2015) DesignIntelligence 30 Most Admired Educators for 2015 The 2015 class of education role models was selected by DesignIntelligence staff with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, and students.
Design Leadership
DesignIntelligence: November/December 2014 Author: "Tenets of the 21st Century Designer: Critical Skills Designers of all Types Will Need in the Future."