Achievement

Complex technical problems that include humans in the decision making loop require integrative approaches across disciplines. This integrative approach must be prepared and taught differently, engage students from all disciplines that have a stake in the problem, and must be informed by the problem itself. Our IGERT addresses this educational need through problem driven courses that are co-taught by faculty from different disciplines and require key aspects of knowledge be acquired through doing (project based learning). Furthermore, they are context adaptive to the needs of each student, and incorporate results from real-world experimental settings. Our co-teaching process requires harmonious co-design of syllabus, extensive preparation ahead of each class, and cross-disciplinary sensitivity during class. For example, our Motion Capture and Analysis course examines human activity via integrative qualitative (dance) and quantitative (computer vision) perspectives.