Abstract: This talk will be an overview of four principles that guide my course design and teaching: be active, embrace remote, focus on fundamentals, and be relevant. I will describe why I use each principle, and give brief explanations of how I have enacted them into my courses. This talk will also include a brief discussion of degree progression issues, and how I have addressed some of the issues to improve my current institution's B.S. Computer Science curriculum.

Short Bio: Dr. McLeod's research interests are in the areas of robot motion planning, mixed reality for robotics, and computer science education. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte in 2019. His dissertation focused on real-time robot motion planning for mobile robots in unknown environments.

Dr. McLeod is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte.