The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI) is pleased to announce a Teaching Innovation Grant Program for faculty who wish to employ innovative teaching strategies for their undergraduate courses in the Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. The CTEI is committing approximately $100,000 to this grant program. Applicants may request up to $20,000 for a proposed project. These grants are made possible by the generosity of Johns Hopkins Emeritus Trustee Christopher Hoehn-Saric and the Smart Family Foundation.
Program Details
CTEI staff are available to provide feedback on proposals before submission and offer assistance in identifying qualified students to assist in grant implementation. Once awarded, the CTEI will provide in-kind support, including project management, instructional design, access to and support for the use of CTEI multimedia software and equipment, pedagogical consultation, assessment assistance, and workshops to assist project teams and/or undergraduates enrolled in the courses.
Proposal are due no later than Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST.
Note: In order to support many instructors, the CTEI requests that an individual apply for no more than one grant per application cycle.
2023 Awarded Projects
Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
Classics
Race Before Race
Create a series of online modules featuring experts in ancient studies who will provide students with content and guidance that more fully reflects the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Faculty: Nandini Pandey
History of Medicine
Seeing Early Modern Medicine
Incorporate digital humanities tools into Health and Healing in Early Modern England, a 300-level undergraduate seminar about English medicine, 1500—1800.
Faculty: Mary Fissell
Mathematics
A Writing Intensive Version of AS.110.405 Real Analysis I
Redesign the curriculum of Real Analysis I to be a UWP approved writing-intensive course, without sacrificing content and its use as a prerequisite for many other courses within the major.
Faculty: Richard Brown
Public Health Studies
Development of a Well-being Requirement for Public Health Studies Major
Develop a “Well-Being Lab” requirement for the Public Health Studies (PHS) major, for students to learn about the multiple dimensions of well-being experientially and identify activities that support their own personal health and well-being.
Faculty: Maria Bulzacchelli, Cara McNamara, and Leslie Bauman
Writing Seminars
Teaching Fellows Project
Create an ‘Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship’ course which expands on the current ‘Teaching Writing’ course, to allow students a two-semester experience teaching writing in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
Faculty: Katharine Noel
Whiting School of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Training Engineering Students to Lead through In-class Experiential Management Learning
Introduce engineering students to the skills and knowledge required for effective engineering management through a structured in-class program that mimics the position of a technical manager in an engineering-focused organization.
Faculty: Eileen Haase
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence as Teaching Assistant
Develop an application to pilot the use of artificial intelligence as a teaching assistant in one or more of the lower-level Computer Science (CS) courses at Johns Hopkins University.
Faculty: Ali Madooei, Sara More, Scott Smith, and Jason Eisner
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Developing and Redesigning the Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Senior Design Course
Develop and redesign the mandatory Capstone Senior Design course so that it will be held across two semesters and eventually allow for multidisciplinary senior design projects.
Faculty: Lucas Buccafusca