{"id":107627,"date":"2025-03-13T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/?p=107627"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T23:17:04","slug":"hampton-honored-for-immersive-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/blog\/hampton-honored-for-immersive-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampton honored for immersive education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 13, 2025, Dean Ian Robertson held an event to recognize engineering faculty and staff for outstanding contributions. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.engr.wisc.edu\/cee\/Faculty\/Hampton_Jesse\/\">Jesse Hampton<\/a>, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the Harvey Spangler Award for Innovative Teaching and Learning Practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our college, we pride ourselves on providing our students hands-on educational experiences. Hampton has taken this notion to the next level\u2014particularly in his new course, <em>Nondestructive Evaluation<\/em> (CEE\/GLE 534). To cement understanding of science and engineering principles, Hampton takes his students into the field to feel, hear and see nondestructive evaluation in real life. Recently, for example, they spent three days equipping a historic lighthouse with fiber-optic sensing cables and conducting detailed LIDAR scans to assess its long-term structural health. When they returned, they analyzed four weeks&#8217; worth of data and jointly authored a paper for the <a href=\"https:\/\/spie.org\/\">International Society for Optics and Photonics<\/a> 2025 conference on Smart Structures and NDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all of his courses\u2014among them, <em>Seepage and Slopes<\/em> and <em>Soil Mechanics<\/em>\u2014Jesse includes uncertainty discussions and modules. He uses tools like ChatGPT and Python to enhance his students&#8217; technology literacy and understanding of scientific programming in the context of civil and geological engineering problems. And he leverages augmented or virtual reality to bring difficult concepts to life. It&#8217;s also worth noting that Hampton&#8217;s contributions have not gone unnoticed by his colleagues, who unanimously supported the nomination for his award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2025, Dean Ian Robertson held an event to recognize engineering faculty and staff for outstanding contributions. 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