Collaborative Solutions, an Interdisciplinary Project Based Learning (IPBL) course at Arkansas Tech University designed to develop critical thinking and communication skills, will host its annual symposium on Tuesday, March 6, at 6 p.m. in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 300A.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Scheduled speakers include Dr. Damon Bryant, who will speak on the utilization of artificial intelligence to predict elite sport performance, and Dr. David May, who will lecture on the implementation of robots in social sciences research.
Bryant is co-founder and chief scientist at Lumina Datamatics Assessments and Analytics and Most Valuable Recruit. He is an industrial and organizational psychologist with almost 20 years of experience in data analytics and psychometrics.
May is a professor in the Mississippi State University Department of Sociology. He is working on research projects funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Research and Development Center and the Mississippi State University Henry Family Foundation.
Dr. Matthew Young, assistant professor of electrical engineering at ATU, is teaching the spring 2018 offering of Collaborative Solutions. In order to ensure representation from a variety of academic disciplines, upper level students from every discipline across campus were encouraged to enroll in the course.
Another group of ATU students will enroll in the course and take on another issue during the spring 2019 semester.
Collaborative Solutions is made possible through the philanthropy of Bob Dickson, ATU Class of 1968.
