John Rome awarded ASU President's Award for Innovation - 2015

In 2010, Intel approached ASU to pursue a USAID Global Development Alliance grant, which would bring co-investment from a consortium of higher-education, industry and government partners, allowing Vietnamese engineering faculty to train at ASU as well as participate in ASU-led, in-country workshops.

One of this year’s recipients of the President’s Award for Innovation, the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) is giving Vietnamese engineering faculty the knowledge and skills to graduate work-ready students who possess the applied and technical communication skills required by multinational corporations.

Since the project started in 2010, over 250 Vietnamese engineering faculty have been trained at ASU and over 1500 have participated in ASU-led in-country workshops. These training workshops focus on teacher development with the goal of modernizing the traditional Vietnamese theory-based engineering programs by introducing applied, hands-on instructional approaches. With the knowledge and skills acquired through HEEAP, our partner schools are now graduating work-ready students who possess the applied and technical communication skills required by multinational corporations. 

This year the UTO's very own John Rome was honored with the HEEAP team with the President's Award for Innovation

Team Members

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education
Jeffrey S. Goss, Gila Aispuro, David Benson, Sabrina Carretie, Dona Duncan, Octavio Heredia, Khoi Le Van, Hoa Nguyen, Huong Nguyen, Jose Quiroga, Thao Tran, Quang Vo, Kathy Wigal

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, The Polytechnic School
Nicole Barr, Scott Danielson

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Computing and Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering
James Collofello, Douglas Montgomery, Dan Shunk

Intel Products Vietnam
Sherry Boger, Uyen Ho, Trang Nguyen

Lisa Hudson, Office of General Counsel

Tamara Deuser, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development

Connie Borror, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Shelly Potts, University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness

John Rome, University Technology Office

Eloisa Acha, National Instruments

Hulas King, Siemens Corporation

Shannon Moore, Pearson Education

Joakum Parker, U.S. Agency for International Development Vietnam Mission

Scott Welsh, Global Launch

Kapil Sood, Texktronix