Advising

Dave Kalahar, ATLAS Curriculum Advisor
Kalahar@colorado.edu

Students interested in TAM meet with Dave, who advises students and tracks their Certificate progress. He creates the teaching schedules, gets the courses onto the University system, and registers students into the ATLS courses. Dave also coordinates student access to the ATLAS Building, ATLAS Registration Open House, Graduation Receptions, TAM @ the Movies, and schedules campus courses into the ATLAS classrooms.

Dave has been employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1983. Prior to coming to ATLAS, Dave was the undergraduate academic advisor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences for 14 years. In that time, he was the recipient of Outstanding Advisor awards from both the University of Colorado at Boulder and the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and garnered additional advising accolades from the Minority Engineering Program, Athletics Department, and Air Force ROTC.

Faculty

Aileen Pierce, Instructor
E-mail: Aileen.Pierce - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225D

Aileen Jaitin Pierce has been an instructor for the Technology, Arts, and Media program at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2004. Aileen teaches courses focusing on the intersection of technology and society, as well as the integration of programming into new media. Aileen holds a B.S. in Math/Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. She spent nine years in Silicon Valley working at Oracle and two startups in product marketing and technical support before moving to Boulder.


Ian Hales, Instructor
E-mail: Ian.Hales - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225E

Ian Hales is a graphic artist and designer who is currently an instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder,in the Technology, Arts, & Media Program. Ian is a CU graduate from the School of Fine Arts who teaches courses focusing on digital art, 2D and 3D animation, new media design, as well as gaming and virtual societies. Ian’s work strives to push the standard conception of digital art and graphic design and establish new methods of conveying themes and ideas in visual mediums.


David Schaal, Lead Multimedia Instructor
E-mail: David.Schaal - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225B


Joel Swanson, Director
E-mail: Joel.Swanson - at - colorado.edu
Office Phone: 303.735.2933
ATLAS Building, Room 225C

Joel Swanson is an artist and writer who is currently the Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He teaches courses on digital art, media theory, and the history of design. He received his MFA in digital art at the University of California, San Diego. His art work is motivated by literary theory and exists as a series of installations, both real and virtual, that explore the nature of language and its embodiment. Swanson's work has been shown in various national and international venues. His work can be seen online at joelswanson.net.

Teaching Assistants

Stephen Gorman Butler
E-mail: Stephen.Butler - at - Colorado.EDU

Stephen graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He spent time volunteering as a firefighter, and working on autonomous robotic vehicles for the US Government before moving to Boulder, Colorado and starting his life in the education world, where he has been for the last 10 years, and has worked as an independent Technology Consultant for local K-12 schools, and for the School of Education within the University of Colorado at Boulder. He lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he was working as a Technology Coordinator and even performed in the Carnival parade. He has worked at the Alexander Dawson School as a Network Administrator, Technology Teacher, and for the last 5 years has been the Director of Technology. In the 2007-2008 Academic year, he reduced his role at Dawson to part-time in order to start a Ph.D program in Technology, Media, and Society through the ATLAS Institute at CU, where he is interested in researching how new technology can be used in education as well as in life-long learning. He has a strong sense of adventure, enjoys spending time outdoors, and learning new things. He enjoys traveling, ultimate frisbee, hiking, camping, mountain biking, skiing, good food, spending time with good friends, and enjoying the natural things in life.