Fellows Directory

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Niveen AbiGhannam

Current Fellow
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

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 & Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
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.

Maura Borrego

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Student Success
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Krishna Kumar

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

Krishna Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Krishna’s work involves developing exascale micro and macro-scale numerical methods for modeling natural hazards. Krishna also develops Scientific Machine Learning algorithms: Graph Network Simulators and Differentiable programming to accelerate numerical methods and solve optimization, design, and inverse problems.

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Fernanda Leite

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
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 Redesign

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 Redesign
Skill-Building
D'Arcy Randall

D'Arcy Randall

PTF Emeritus
Chemical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Skill-Building
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Navid Saleh

Current Fellow
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

Navid Saleh is an Associate Professor at the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department. He is an environmental engineering faculty member with a passion for teaching. His mission as an educator and researcher has been to engage with the community and co-create knowledge. He has developed modules utilizing problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, conducted detailed and systematic evaluation, and devoted himself to student learning at UT.

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Carolyn Seepersad

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Undergraduate Research

Project Title: Freshman Introduction to Research in Engineering (FIRE) 

 

Nina Telang

Nina Telang

Current Fellow
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Student Success
Student Wellbeing

Nina Telang is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and a Kilby Faculty Fellow. She is passionate about student success and well-being, and has implemented student success programs in her first and second-year courses.

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Carlos Torres-Verdín

Current Fellow
Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

Carlos Torres-Verdín received a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. During 1991-1997, he held the position of Research Scientist with Schlumberger-Doll Research. From 1997-1999, he was Reservoir Specialist and Technology Champion with YPF (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Michael Webber

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering