• ARS

    • Andrea Ramírez-Salgado, PhD

    AI literacy · Engineering education · Convergent leadership

    Leadership and service

    Building the conditions for emerging ideas to become durable programs, partnerships, and public value.

    I approach service as the outer ring of the AI literacy framework: the work of extending meaningful engagement beyond individual courses and research projects into institutions, professional communities, museums, schools, and public life.

    Department-level leadership

    Convergent Engineering Education Initiatives

    As Program Lead, I help coordinate strategy for AI and other convergent technologies across teaching, research, faculty development, partnerships, credentials, governance, external engagement, and proposal development. The work is intentionally horizontal across engineering disciplines and vertical across learner levels—from K–12 and informal education to graduate programs and workforce development.

    • Translate emerging scholarship into curriculum and professional learning
    • Build cross-unit and external partnerships
    • Strengthen AI, data, computing, and emerging-technology pathways
    • Create strategic conversations that position Engineering Education for broader impact

    Add leadership imageStrategic meeting, convening, cross-unit workshop, or partnership discussion.

    Institutional roles

    Student engagement

    Student Engagement Coordinator at the Warren B. Nelms Institute, supporting the IoT Club and applied AI hardware activities.

    Academic governance

    Curriculum committee member for the MS in AI Systems and MS in Applied Data Science, with additional department service in research-to-practice and external engagement.

    University strategy

    Contributor to UF AI Blue Sky efforts, AI² initiatives, K–12 workforce coordination, and cross-college conversations about AI education and infrastructure.

    National collaboration

    Member of the Cyber-Informed Engineering Education group led by Idaho National Laboratory and NSF proposal panelist.

    Community and public engagement

    Add Cade Museum imageMuseum program, community discussion, or AI learning activity.

    Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention

    As an AI Initiative Advisor and research collaborator, I help explore how museum infrastructure and programming can make AI understandable, tangible, and responsive to community needs.

    Add community imageSTEM Night, multilingual workshop, family event, or youth activity.

    Children Beyond Our Borders

    I support informal learning experiences for Hispanic communities and English-language learners, grounded in the belief that AI literacy must cross language, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries.

    Mentoring

    Recent mentoring includes an undergraduate AI Scholar, master’s capstone students, undergraduate honors theses, near-peer research teams, and service on graduate committees across engineering, education, geology, and computing.

    Professional service

    I review for AERA, RESPECT, ASEE Women in Engineering, NARST, the Journal of Computer Science Integration, the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, School Science and Mathematics, and other scholarly venues.