Professors Susan Stirrup and David Mays applied for and were accepted as Fellows for the AMPLIFY Institute for the academic year 2024 – 2025. The Institute is a leadership institute for instructional faculty at engineering schools that are Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). Professors Stirrup and Mays attended the two-day kick-off event on September 26 and 27 at the beautiful campus of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). After returning from UTEP, each fellow joins a cohort with 3 – 4 other engineering instructional faculty at HSIs across the United States. Each fellow will complete a project at their institution as part of the institute.

Professor Stirrup’s project revolves around providing a space for engineering faculty to explore equitable teaching practices. To this end, she will hold “lunch and learns” each month over the 2024-2025 academic year, the first of which took place today. Every engineering program in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing was represented!

Professor Mays’s project is called Engineering HSI, where he is leading a campus-wide Grand Challenge team of faculty and staff working for CU Denver to be more Hispanic-serving. He says, “It is an honor for CU Denver to be designated as an HSI, and an even greater honor to be a Hispanic-serving research university (HSRU). I am happy to be working with Professor Stirrup and others to make CU Denver’s College of Engineering, Design and Computing (CEDC) feel like home for each and every one of our brilliant, hardworking students.”

Written by Professors David Mays and Susan Stirrup, CEDC