Experts Guide
Professor
XARTS 015
Expertise: Sustainability,
Systems Thinking,
Community Engaged Learning,
Design Pedagogy,
Strategic Planning and Curricular Assessment for Higher Ed
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer is a design professor, artist and writer, whose work integrates technology, craft, and design. Her current focus is on sustainability and systems thinking as related to behavior change.
Egenhoefer is currently a full professor in design at the University of San Francisco, where she has taught since 2009. She serves on the College of Arts & Sciences Sustainability Task Force, the steering committee for the Center for Teaching Excellence, and a variety of other…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Business Law
Roy Eisenhardt graduated from Berkeley Law after serving in the Marine Corps, and practiced law in San Francisco until joining Berkeley as a visiting professor in 1978. In 1980 he became president of the Oakland Athletics, and in 1989 he accepted the role of executive director of the California Academy of Sciences. The interim president of the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010, Eisenhardt has served as a lecturer in sports law at Berkeley Law since 2011.
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Didem Ekici has 20 years of teaching experience in the United States and overseas. She is an alumna of the International and Multicultural Education program at the University of San Francisco where she earned her doctoral degree in 2018. She has been teaching graduate classes in Migration Studies and General Education programs at USF. Besides her adjunct faculty role at Golden Gate University, she is also a faculty member and department co-chair in the ESOL and World Languages Department at…
Assistant Professor
Orange County Campus
Expertise: Nursing education,
Nursing management,
Higher education management,
Academic accreditation,
Curriculum development
Dr. El Najm has over 23 years of experience in nursing education and clinical practice. He currently teaches graduate Medical-Surgical, Leadership, Quality, and Research courses in the Master's program.
Dr. El Najm is experienced in the capacity of ICU Clinical Supervisor, Nursing Faculty, and Academic Program Management. He has a strong background in curriculum development and review and in Higher Education and Healthcare Accreditation. He is passionate about capacity building and excellence…
Faculty Emeritus
Robert Elias has taught in USF’s politics department since 1989. Hailing from a Czech and Irish-Catholic working class family in New York City, Professor Elias created the USF Legal Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, and Peace & Justice Studies programs. He’s taught in USF's Honors Humanities and in the BA/MA in International Studies programs.
Elias has taught previously at McGill University (Montreal), Tufts University (Boston and France), the UC Berkeley, Penn State University, and the…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Expertise: Marketing, advertising, creative nonfiction.
Assistant Professor
Harney Science Center 440A
Expertise: Programming languages,
Software engineering,
Formal verification
Mehmet's research at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering. His focus is on building and using program analyses to understand the behavior of programs automatically.
His current research project focuses on extracting memory and thread safety properties in C programs to make transitioning from C to safer programming languages such as Rust easier. He has also worked on research projects involving dynamic invariant inference, finding similar snippets between programs,…
Professor
Harney Science Center 412B
Expertise: Data Visualization,
Computer Science Education
Sophie’s research interests include data visualization and computer science education. She is a co-founder of the Visualization and Graphics Lab (VGL) and on the steering committee for the Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec). She is passionate about supporting diverse learners in the classroom, and integrating one-on-one student/faculty interaction into her courses on software development and data visualization.
https://sjengle.cs.usfca.edu