1. The University of Michigan
Barbara Ericson – Assistant Professor School of Information
Mark Guzdial – Professor CSE & Engineering Education Research

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 - AI
Elliot Soloway –
Educational Tech.
Barry Fishman
Learning
Environments
Kentaro Toyama
ICT – Social
Change
Nia Dowell
Learning
Environments
Rada Mihalcea NLP
– Human Behavior

10. 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

11. 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

12. For more information
• Barbara Ericson, Ericson@cc.gatech.edu
• Mark Guzdial, Guzdial@gmail.com