Three faculty members from the College of Engineering have been selected for a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) symposium on engineering education, which aims to shape teaching techniques for the future.

Drs. Adjo Amekudzi, Joseph Le Doux and Amy Pritchett will attend the event, the NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE), in Irvine, Calif. Held from Oct. 14 to Oct. 17, FOEE spotlights educational innovators, and participants were nominated by other engineers or deans. Dr. Larry McIntire, chairman of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits on the planning committee.  

The symposium will allow participants from universities all over the country to discuss approaches to teaching, including how to best use technology in classrooms.  Another topic will be massive open online courses, commonly called MOOCs. Tech’s participants will join about 70 other educators at the symposium.

“We want FOEE to become a major force in identifying, recognizing, and promulgating advances and innovations,” said NAE President Charles M. Vest.

Pritchett, who has been on Georgia Tech’s faculty since 1997, is the director of the Cognitive Engineering Center and the David S. Lewis Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Le Doux is the associate chair for undergraduate studies and an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and his research focuses on gene therapy. Amekudzi, another associate professor, researches and teaches about infrastructure and sustainable development in the School of Civil Engineering.