Formerly the Director of the Digital Media Studies program for 12 years, she has been teaching in the SOA since 2001 and brings to the University active research, teaching and community service. Her work specializes in design, art and technology; fostering student engagement and academic exploration through a heuristic mode of teaching. Ms. Pitera’s pedagogy is rooted in teaching students to learn to think by challenging them to solve problems & engage critical thinking through multi-faceted and energetic project processes: through the doing and making of architectonic form. In the spirit of the student-centered mission, students are engaged in doing what they love as a vehicle for reaching their fullest potential.