During the Fall 2021 semester, I had the pleasure of teaching an honors course with Prof. Daniel Sui (Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech) that focused on the future of work. The course was designed to expose students to the wide variety of research that is undertaken at Virginia Tech on this topic (see the list below). The news article below provides some insight into the course and what the students thought of the experience. We are planning to offer a version of the course again during the Fall 2022 semester.
The list below provides an overview of the subjects covered by our guest speakers during the semester:
- Robots, Computers, and the Gender Wage Gap – Prof. Suqin Ge
- Potential Impacts of Additive Manufacturing and Digital Fabrication Technologies – Prof. Chris Williams
- Historical Perspectives on the Future of Work – Prof. Tom Ewing
- Social Computing, Crowdsourcing, and Human-AI Teams – Dr. Kurt Luther
- Wearable and Pervasive Computing + Transdisciplinary Collaboration: Teams and Processes – Prof. Tom Martin and Prof. Lisa McNair
- Race, Technonationalism, and the Ethical Future of Work – Prof. Sylvester Johnson
- Future of Work for Clinicians in ICU – Prof. Aki Ishida, Dr. Sarah Parker, and Prof. Tom Martin
- Game Theory and the Future of Work – Prof. Sudipta Sarangi
- The Emerging Digital Nomads: Trends and Traps – Dr. Zheng (Phil) Xiang
- Exploring the Unintended Consequences of COVID-19’s Acceleration of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and their Impacts on the Future of Work – Ricardo E. Coleman (Director, Counterintelligence and Security Integration, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Research and Technology)
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