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The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) is dedicated to enabling exceptional engineering education at The University of Texas. The FIC provides media, instructional, and faculty development services to support faculty in enhancing their teaching, both with and without technology.
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History of the Faculty Innovation Center |
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Mechanical Engineering professor Phil Schmidt is acknowledged as the founding father of the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC), which evolved from an earlier incarnation known as the Instructional Media Lab (IML). Bridging the gap between real-world engineering practices and traditional engineering education provided the impetus for establishing the IML. In earlier days when classes were smaller, professors took students on field trips, for example to a power plant. As class sizes grew, it became less feasible to do field trips with larger numbers of students. So the idea emerged to bring the power plant to the students.
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Within the FIC, staff expertise enables us to work with faculty based on their needs and interests. More specifically, we can create instructionally sound Web-based tools and environments, distance learning, video productions, social media creations, high-end animations, and other resources as requested. We are able to help you with a needs assessment, all pre-production planning, actual production, and formative and summative evaluations. We are also available to help professors review and improve their teaching. Just let us know what you'd like to do and we'll get started.
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