Dr. Homero Murzi

Dr. Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education and is passionate about developing effective and inclusive pedagogical interventions that can prepare engineering students to the complexities of the workforce, including understanding social issues and sustainable impact of engineering decisions. He has worked for over 15 years in academia and industry with the goal of improving the culture in engineering. He has been recognized with multiple awards during his career including being inducted in the Edward Alexander Bouchet Honor Society, the Fulbright Faculty Development Program, and recipient of a United Nations recognition in the High Commissioner for Refugees. His Diggs Teaching Enhancement Project, a Connected Learning Engineering Course, provides first-year engineering students with a non-traditional approach to reflect on engineering issues and develop their engineering identity in a reflexive community of practice. It uses a blog platform where students will actively participate in weekly guided reflections and peer feedback. Students will actively participate in course content development and use guided prompts to reflect on issues of social justice, sustainability, and aspects of engineering that are not traditionally discussed in engineering classrooms. Murzi received his PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech, a MBA from Temple University, and a Master and Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Táchira in his hometown of San Cristóbal, Venezuela.