John Rome awarded ASU President's Award for Innovation - 2015
In 2010, Intel approached ASU to pursue a USAID Global Development Alliance grant, which would bring co-investment from a consortium of higher-education, industry and government partners, allowing Vietnamese engineering faculty to train at ASU as well as participate in ASU-led, in-country workshops.
One of this year’s recipients of the President’s Award for Innovation, the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) is giving Vietnamese engineering faculty the knowledge and skills to graduate work-ready students who possess the applied and technical communication skills required by multinational corporations.
Since the project started in 2010, over 250 Vietnamese engineering faculty have been trained at ASU and over 1500 have participated in ASU-led in-country workshops. These training workshops focus on teacher development with the goal of modernizing the traditional Vietnamese theory-based engineering programs by introducing applied, hands-on instructional approaches. With the knowledge and skills acquired through HEEAP, our partner schools are now graduating work-ready students who possess the applied and technical communication skills required by multinational corporations.
This year the UTO's very own John Rome was honored with the HEEAP team with the President's Award for Innovation
Team Members
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education
Jeffrey S. Goss, Gila Aispuro, David Benson, Sabrina Carretie, Dona Duncan, Octavio Heredia, Khoi Le Van, Hoa Nguyen, Huong Nguyen, Jose Quiroga, Thao Tran, Quang Vo, Kathy Wigal
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, The Polytechnic School
Nicole Barr, Scott Danielson
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Computing and Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering
James Collofello, Douglas Montgomery, Dan Shunk
Intel Products Vietnam
Sherry Boger, Uyen Ho, Trang Nguyen
Lisa Hudson, Office of General Counsel
Tamara Deuser, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development
Connie Borror, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Shelly Potts, University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness
John Rome, University Technology Office
Eloisa Acha, National Instruments
Hulas King, Siemens Corporation
Shannon Moore, Pearson Education
Joakum Parker, U.S. Agency for International Development Vietnam Mission
Scott Welsh, Global Launch
Kapil Sood, Texktronix