The University of MichiganBarbara Ericson – Assistant Professor School of Information

Mark Guzdial – Professor CSE & Engineering Education Research

Where is it?

• The University of Michigan is in Ann Arbor, Michigan• The state that looks like a mitten

• Ann Arbor consistently ranks in ”Top Places to Live” Lists

Downtown Ann Arbor A Covered Shopping Arcade

Facts about Michigan

• Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world.

• Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of streams.

View of Detroit from the Detroit River Mackinac Bridge

What is Michigan Famous For?• Detroit, Motor City – Car Capital of the World

• Motown Music - Hitsville U.S.A

• Sanders Desserts

Henry Ford R. E. Olds

The Dodge Brothers

Things to See Near U. Michigan

• Greenfield Village and Ford Museum• Henry Ford’s personal museum of

buildings and antique vehicles

• Detroit (about 1 hour drive)

• Chicago (about 4 hour drive)

Facts about the University of Michigan

• #1 Public Research University in the U.S.• National Science Foundation

• Top 5 U.S. Public University• U.S. News & World Report

• Over 40,000 students• From 122 countries

• The football stadium seats over 100,000 people

Famous Alumni

• Madonna

• James Earl Jones • Darth Vader

• Tony Fadell• One of the fathers of the i-pod• Also cofounded Nest Labs

• Larry Page• Co-founder of Google

• Gerald Ford• 38th President of the United States

The University of Michigan Campuses

• North Campus• Computer Science and Engineering

• Bob and Betty Beyster Building

• Central Campus• School of Information

• North Quad

• Free bus between the two

Law School

Research Areas

• Computer Science and Engineering• Engineering Education• Big Data• Assistive Technologies• Robotics• Computer Games

• School of Information• HCI• Social Computing• Health Informatics• Computer Science Education

John Laird - AIElliot Soloway –Educational Tech.

Barry FishmanLearning Environments

Kentaro ToyamaICT – Social Change

Nia DowellLearning Environments

Rada Mihalcea NLP – Human Behavior

Barbara Ericson

• Assistant Professor• School of Information

• Research Areas• Interactive ebooks

• http://tinyurl.com/TeacherCSP-new

• http://tinyurl.com/StudentCSP-new

• http://tinyurl.com/JavaReview-new

• Parsons Problems

• Increasing Diversity in Computing• Project Rise Up and Sisters Rise Up

Mark Guzdial

• Professor• Computer Science & Engineering• Engineering Education Research

• Research Blog: https://computinged.wordpress.com/

• Research Interests• Media Computation

• Teaching computing in the context of manipulating digital media

• http://mediacomputation.org• Using programming as a notation to learn

other subjects better• Mathematics, Economics

• Cognitive mechanisms in learning programming

• Public policy supports for computing education

For more information

• Barbara Ericson, Ericson@cc.gatech.edu

• Mark Guzdial, Guzdial@gmail.com