Architecture professor recognized for innovative teaching practices with new C-PAD Teaching with Technology Award

Lab founder and director Benay Gürsoy was named the recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design’s inaugural Teaching and Learning with Technology Award.

These images are from Gürsoy’s “Hacking Materials and Production Methods” course during which students were able to collaborate, repair, operate and hack a Z-Corp 3D printer that had once arrived in horrific shape.

The C-PAD award recognizes a faculty member in the college who utilizes technology to enhance education.

“Benay has distinguished herself as a maker who is totally immersed in using technologies as tools for intelligent design, and as a teacher who is dedicated to making these technologies accessible to students. They walk into this class to confront technology through creativity and Benay transforms their individual naïveté into group curiosity and then into a collective confidence.” - Marcus Shaffer, associate professor of architecture.