Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Engineering at Boston College. Technology and space for socially just education, who gets to engineer and how. she/hers
Boston, MA
Joined April 2015
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Super excited (and have been a little stunned) to receive an NSF CAREER award to work with youth on promoting belonging and preventing harm in informal engineering settings!
nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…
Many thanks to the Sabet family and the University for their support!
Professor Siddhartan Govindasamy and Assistant Professor Avneet Hira have been named the inaugural Sabet Family Dean’s Faculty Fellows in Engineering, an honor made possible by Boston College Trustee Bijan Sabet '91, P'21 and his wife, Lauren P'21. tinyurl.com/y89x6nj3
Woohoo! 🎉 sounds like a super interesting project!
So excited about this project and the opportunity to learn from engineering educators. nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…
I have a fantastic student looking for a lab in Australia to be affiliated with for a Fulbright. Her areas of interest are machine learning for fashion and sustainability. Any leads would be very welcome!
Avneet Hira retweeted
.@bclynchschool Professor Andrés Castro Samayoa published an op-ed in @uniworldnews addressing the anti-DEI work unfolding in Florida and elsewhere. READ: bit.ly/3XbMBXN
ALT Andrés Castro Samayoa
Super excited to work with a great team and partners on this project!
The @NSF awarded a grant to a research team from the @bclynchschool and Morrissey College for a project titled, “Empowering Youth in STEM and Technological Careers through AI-enhanced Sustainable and Community-focused Urban Gardening." on.bc.edu/3OwTYqD
ALT Lacee Satcher, Maureen Kenny, G. Michael Barnett, Avneet Hira, and Helen Zhang standing on a staircase
Many thanks to the lovely students and mentors who have made this possible :) @BCHCEngineering @PurdueENE @EducationArcade @MathWorks
Avneet Hira retweeted
A true honor to be @BostonCollege 2023 Commencement Speaker & become member of BC family. Wished future leaders to excel & find strength to in responsibility to always take action for what they love. Like Ukrainians do today defending our homes, families, freedom and democracy.
Excited to work on this new NSF ITEST project with a fantastic team
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I love that going to an American restaurant in any country means that my food will come with an ungodly amount of fries and I will eat them all 🍟🤤
Our chapter about being researchers working with schools through the pandemic is in this book. Loved the space for reflection that this afforded us
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Can ChatGPT condense my writing to meet page/word requirements.. feels like I spend more time doing this than I should
If it takes about a week to get over 1 rejection, what happens when you get 2 rejections in a week? Does academia have a 1 + 1 = 50% off offer
#AcademicTwitter #reviewer2
Always great to step out of the university and build community partnerships. Even better when you have students who lead the way
HCE majors Julia Gardow and Kiana Ramos introducing engineering and 3D printing to youth in an after school setting. This work is part of Dr. Hira’s research (@avneethira) on promoting belonging in engineering and Maker settings among youth from underserved groups in STEM.
Avneet Hira retweeted
"Whether people like their job has a great deal to do with how others treat them. I would argue that being TREATED WITH DIGNITY at work is more important than passion for long-term satisfaction"
I talk #TheTroubleWithPassion w/@jacquithornton in @Nature
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Peter’s presenting our work on schooling through covid at #AESA2023 this week. Go meet him if you’re around - what a fun guy
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