Fellows Directory

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Niveen AbiGhannam

Current Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Institutional Resource

Dr. Niveen AbiGhannam is a science communication researcher and educator whose work centers around the strategic and inclusive communication of technical knowledge. More specifically, her research seeks to understand individual, organizational, and social factors that can drive or hinder public engagement with STEM behaviors. She also examines the identities of publicly engaged scientists and engineers and the meanings that they associate with their engagement experiences. On the teaching front, Dr. AbiGhannam has taught Engineering Communication at UT since 2015.

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Matthew Balhoff

Alumni
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Project-Based Learning

Matthew is a professor in the Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (PGE) Department. Matt’s work as a PTF includes a curriculum-wide design project that is presented to the students in their first petroleum engineering class, taught in the spring of their first year. In every PGE class they are assigned at least one homework assignment or project taken directly from the design project. The objective of this initiative is to use unique methods and tools to develop an integrated and synergistic program.

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Andrew Dell'Antonio

Current Fellow
Music
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College of Fine Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Faculty Communication
Improving Teaching and Learning

Andrew Dell’Antonio (he/him/his) specializes in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with a focus on seventeenth-century Italy. His research interests include musical historiography, reception history, and disability studies.

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Erica "EG" Gionfriddo

Current Fellow
Theatre and Dance
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College of Fine Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Faculty Communication
Improving Teaching and Learning

Erica Gionfriddo is a dance artist, educator and somatic researcher who believes in the intelligent body each of us occupies. They are co-founder of ARCOS Dance (arcosdance.com), whose ongoing inquiry probes the intersection of technology and humanity through rigorous interdisciplinary experimentation. ARCOS’ recent work has focused on “hacking” consumer technologies, or repurposing them outside of their intended uses, into performance and developing an embodied cyborgian movement language.

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Fernanda Leite

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Project-Based Learning

Fernanda Leite is a Professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering. She is the past Chair of a University-wide Bridging Barriers research initiative called Planet Texas 2050. Her built environment research program sits at the interface of engineering and computing. She teaches courses on Building Information Modeling, Project Management and Economics, Construction Safety, and Sustainable Systems Engineering.

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Rick Neptune

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design

Project Title: Integrating Computational Techniques in the Engineering Curriculum 

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Paola Passalacqua

Alumni
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Skill-Building
D'Arcy Randall

D'Arcy Randall

PTF Emeritus
Chemical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Skill-Building