Award Letter. DAAP Dean Probst for 2015 DAAP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

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1 Ming Tang. Content Listing TEACHING Course Taught Independent Study Graduate Thesis Advising Invited Review & Lecture Curriculum Development Academic Advising Student Accomplishments Teaching Award Award Letter. DAAP Dean Probst for 2015 DAAP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Endorsement Letter. UC Provost Davenport for Sustainable Urbanism course. IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. Supporting Letter. SAID Director Williams for Innovative use of Technology Teaching Award Letters from Students

2 TEACHING Courses Taught Fall SAID Design Studio 1. (12 students) 6 credits SAID Communication Skills 3. (103 students) 3 credits Spring 2015 ARCH Digital Media Skills. (80 students) 3 credits ARCH Capstone Studio. (12 students) 6 credits SAID 6099 Sustainable Urbanism Study Abroad in China. 8 students. Co-teach with Prof. Auffrey, Wang, and Lu ( total 22 students) 4 credits Fall 2014 ARCH ARCH 4th year studio. (10 students) 6 credits ARCH 7036 ARCH Elective. (7 students) 3 credits Summer 2014 ARCH 7014 Visualization III. (16 students) 4 credits Spring 2014 ARCH 3001 Studio III. (16 students) 6 credits ARCH 3410 Digital Media. (77 students) 3 credits ARCH 7013 Visualization II. ( 21 students) 4 credits SAID 6099 Sustainable Urbanism. Study Abroad in China. 8 students. Co-teach with Prof. Auffrey, Wang, and Lu. ( total 14 students) 4 credits Fall 2013 ARCH7012 Design Visualization I. (16 students) 4 credits. ARCH4001 Architecture Studio 4. (9 students) 6 credits. Summer 2013 ARCH Design Visualization III. (8 students) 4 credits. Co-teach with Prof. Williams. 4 credits. Spring 2013 ARCH Building Design Research Studio. (15 students) 6 credits. ARCH 3410 Digital Media. (50 students) 3 credits. Fall 2012 ARCH 7013 Design Visualization II. (18 students) 4 credits. SAID 6099 Sustainable Urbanism. Study Abroad in China. (8 students, total 23 students from three sections) 4 credits. Co-teach with Prof. Auffrey and Prof. Lu. ARCH MARCH1 Graduate Studio. (8 students) 6 credits. ARCH 7002 Visualization I. (12 students) 4 credits. Spring 2012 ARCH 402. Capstone Studio. (20 students) 6 credits. Winter 2012 SAID294. Computer Skills. (103 students) 3 credits. ARCH 202. Studio II. (15 students) 6 credits.

3 Autumn 2011 ARCH 713. Graduate Elective Studio (11 students). 6 credits. Co-taught with architects in Perkins + Will: Dr. Ajla Aksamija, Todd Snapp, Michael Hodge ARCH 512. Graduate Representation Skills and Composition (15 students). 3 credits HNRS371H Honors Guided Study (1 student). 3 credits Summer 2011 ARCH 794. Parametric Thinking & None-Linear Design, Special Topics on Digital Media (7 students). 3 credits Spring HNRS371H. Honors Guided Study (2 students). 3 credits ARCH 203. Architecture Studio 2 nd Year. (18 students). 6 credits. Co-taught with Anton Harfmann ARCH 203. Architectural Studio 2 nd Year (19 students). 6 credits ARCH 716. Performance Driven Design, Special Topics in Architectural Representation (12 students). 3 credits. Co-taught with Architects in Perkins + Will: Dr. Ajla Aksamija, Michael Hodge Winter 2011 ARCH 202. Architectural Studio 2 (15 students). 6credits. Co-taught with Karl Wallick, Renee Martin, Conor Brady. SAID 294. Computer Skills (70 students). 3 credits Autumn 2010 ARCH 512. Graduate Architectural Representation & Composition (13 students). 3 credits SAID294. Computer Skills (19 students). 3 credits Independent Study Spring 2015 Independent study. (7 students). Digital fabrication, environment simulation. Spring 2014 Independent study. (1 student.) 1 credit. Digital fabrication. Fall Independent study (2 students). Niehoff studio installation, parametric design Summer 2013 Independent study (3 students). Competitions. Spring 2013 Independent study (1 student). Digital fabrication. Fall 2012 Independent study (1 student). Arduino Sensor and kinetic structure. Spring 2012 Independent Study. (9 students) Grasshopper. Studio Book. Winter 2012 Independent Study. (1 student ) Lamp.

4 Spring 2011 Independent Study (5 students) Computer Skills and Digital Design Application Thesis Research Winter 2011 Independent Study. (7 students). Computer Skills and Digital Design Application Autumn 2010 Independent study. (3 graduate students) Parametric Urbanism and Various Digital Fabrication Techniques Becker Competition. Independent Study. (16 students). Co-taught with Peter Chamberlain (SOD), Jim Postell (SAID). Bended wood. Furniture design competition. Graduate Thesis Advising Member, Thesis Committee: Colin Klimesh. M.F.A (SOD), Domestic Aesthetics: human desire and the perception of objects (Graduated Spring 2015) Member, Thesis Committee: Caleb Wild. M.Arch. Digital Derivation: the role of algorithms and parameters in building skin design (Graduated Spring 2015) Member, Thesis Committee: Po-Hung Chiu. M.Arch. L-system in Architecture design. (Graduated Summer 2015) Member, Thesis Committee: Daniel Coleman, M.Arch. Stadia as Urban Epicenter (Graduated Spring 2015) Member, Thesis Committee: Ming Gao. A sustainable development analysis and design in a rural city: A case study of Wilmington, OH (SOP) Member, Thesis Committee: Niccolo Boldrin. Dynamic Inevitability in Computational Design (Graduated Spring 2014) Member, Thesis Committee: Michael Haddy. Adaptive Harbor Machines: Design Approaches for the Changing Urban Coast (Graduated Spring 2014) Chair, Thesis Committee: Andrew Newman, M.Arch. Parametric Articulation (Graduated Spring 2013) Member, Thesis Committee: Fricano John, M.Arch. Infusing Mixed Use Into Vacant Retail (Graduated Spring 2013) Chair, Thesis Committee: Anthony Mangione, M.Arch. Digital Design and Craft: Designing an Urban Infrastructure with Digital Technique (Graduated Summer 2015) Member, Thesis Committee: Yalan Zheng, M.S. The 798 Zone. The European Avant- Garde In China. (Graduated summer 2013). Member, Thesis Committee: Ge Yuan, M.S

5 Member, Thesis Committee: Hamdi Mortan, M.S (Graduated Summer 2014) Member, Thesis Committee: Yang Lin. M.S. Encounters with A Baroque Square and Skyscrapers: The urban transformation of Zhongshan Square Dalian China ( Graduated Spring 2012) Member, Thesis Committee: Trevor Jordan. M.Arch. Digital Craft (Graduated Spring 2012) Member, Thesis Committee: Diane Guo, M.Arch. Building the Invisible, Bridging the Gap Between Past and Future in Chinese Architecture (Graduated Spring 2011) Member, Thesis Committee: Xinjia Wang. Master of Community Planning. Applying Form-Based Code Principles to Chinese Cities: Improve Urban Landscape Control in Regulatory Planning Framework. ( ) Member, Thesis Committee: Jeff Welch, M.Arch. (Graduated Spring 2011) Member, Thesis Committee: Ciara Seymour, M.Arch. Reciprocal capacities and adaptive space (Graduated Spring 2010) Member, Thesis Committee: Michael Zhao, M.Arch. New palace: design a multifunctional sports complex for Yanbian Korean prefecture in Northeastern China (Graduated Spring 2010) Invited Reviews & Lectures Spring 2015 Guest lecture for ARCH7013. Design Visualization 2. Under Prof. Ball. Fall 2014 ARCH4001. Architecture Studio 4. Under Prof. Larson. SAID Design Studio 1. Under Prof. Marcu. Spring 2014 ARCH Capstone Studio. Under Prof. Marcu Fall 2013 ARCH4001. Architecture Studio 4. Under Prof. Larson. Spring 2013 ARCH7002. Graduate Architecture Studio. Under Prof. Bible. INTD Furniture / Millwork. Under Prof. Postell. Fall 2012 ARCH Architecture Studio. Under Prof. Riorden. Guest lecture for SAID Design Studio. Under Prof. Hildebrandt.

6 Spring 2011 ARCH 4002 Architecture Capstone Studio, under Prof. Williamson Winter 2011 ARCH301. Architecture Studio 3. Under Prof. Greinacher. Guest lecture for Design, Art, and Built Environment Design, (23DAPP111), Under Prof. Cindy Damschroder Fall 2011 SAID 201. Immersion Studio. Under Prof. Stedman. Summer ARCH501. Pre-Texts for Architecture. under Prof. Nnamdi 23ARCH504. Graduate Studio: Housing and Community. Under Prof. Slaughter. Spring ARCH602. Structure/Environment/Construction Studio 2. Under Prof. Slaughter. 23ARCH602. Structure/Environment/Construction Studio Two. Under Prof. Harfmann. 23ARCH901. Thesis Studio. Under Prof. Bible, McInturf, Kanekar. 23ARCH794. Special Topics in Digital Media. Under Brian Ringley. Autumn ARCH502. Graduate Studio: Order and Tectonics in Architecture. Under Prof. Wallick. Curriculum Development SAID Sustainable Urbanism in the Global Perspective Collaborated with Prof. Auffrey, Prof. Wang in the School of Planning, and Prof. Lu in the Environmental Engineering, I developed a course titled sustainable urbanism in the Global Perspective. This UC Forward interdisciplinary course focuses on the sustainability in the global perspective. We were awarded with three-year UC Forward grant to develop this study abroad course. ($9,200 in 2013, $10,000 in 2014, $7,800 in 2015) We have recruited undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students from various majors and traveled to China every year from 2013 to Through a series of symposiums, field trips, and workshops, UC students interacted with researchers, faculties and students from Beijing Jiaotong University, Qingdao Technology University, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Technology, and Shandong University. Students learned various issues and challenges facing Chinese cities during the rapid urbanization process in China. (See details in appendix student project)

7 2015 "Resilient City" Symposium with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Technology. Collaborative workshop with Qingao Technology University "Future City" Symposium with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Technology "Sustainable Urbanism" Symposium with Beijing University of Technology. Course website: nable/ ARCH3410, (previous SAID 294). Computer Skills. Required course for undergraduate Architecture students. Taught in spring 2015, spring 2014, spring 2013, winter 2012, winter 2011 and autumn New development on course content: Parametric designs, digital fabrication, Building Information Modeling, visualization were added to the course. Students work were exhibited in 2015, 2014, 2013 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conferences, and 101 st, 100 th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) conferences. (See details in appendix student project) ARCH 7002, 7012, Design Visualization I. ARCH512. Graduate Architectural Representation & Composition. Required course for Graduate MARCH II students. Taught in Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Autumn 2011, and Autumn New development on course content: Architectural visualization including photorealistic rendering, 3D animation, and real time rendering were added to the course. Digital Design and Computation Tutorial Library Developed a comprehensive video library to teach various software including Revit, 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, Grasshopper, Ecotect, Mudbox, AutoCAD, Vassari. The library

8 ( includes more than 250 demonstration videos. It has been visited by my colleagues and students more than 423,000 times since it was launched in December Academic Advising Since 2011, I served as the faculty adviser for a new student organization named digital fabrication of responsive materials (dform). I worked closely with a group of SAID students to initiate this student driven organization. The organization won $7,000 from University to design and build an installation for UC Niehoff studio in dform is helping the upcoming 2015 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference at University of Cincinnati. Student Accomplishments Student project from computer skills (ARCH3014, spring, 2015) was accepted at 2015 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference exhibition. Sponsored by Cincinnati Architectural Foundation (AFC), student project from ARCH3014 Fall 2015 was exhibited in the AFC downtown gallery Students in 2015 sustainable urbanism course (SAID6099) presented research in the Resilient City Symposium at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Student project from computer skills (ARCH3014, spring 2014) was exhibited in the 2014 ACADIA conference exhibition and published in the conference proceeding book. Students in 2014 sustainable urbanism course (SAID6099) presented research in the Future City Symposium at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Student Trey Meyer from Building Design Research Studio ARCH4002 won the first place of ACSA Fabric in Architecture competition in dform organization won the $7,000 university grant to construct the architectural installations to optimize the interior acoustic performance of Niehoff studio. Funded by dform, three winning team from my spring 2013 computer skill course constructed the prototypes. The project was exhibited in the 2013 ACADIA conference exhibition and published in the conference proceeding book. Co-authored with me, student Hans Koesters published paper titled Parametric Computation: student voices on parametricism and design technique in the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design (ii journal) in Student Hans Koesters from Capstone Studio ARCH 402 won the Director Choice Award in 2012 DAAP works. Student projects from course ARCH 716, Performance Driven Design. Special Topics in Architectural Representation were published in the Peer Reviewed Journal Perkins + Will Research Journal in (See full article in appendix publication)

9 Teaching Award 2015 DAAP outstanding junior faculty award, University of Cincinnati. This award acknowledges your impact on students through excellence in teaching in the School of Architecture and Interior Design. By DAAP Dean Probst.

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11 Beverly Davenport Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost 2614 McMicken Circle 210 Van Wormer Hall Cincinnati, OH (513) October 9, 2014 Dear IIE Heiskell Award Committee, I was delighted to hear about IIE s Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. When reading about the Study Abroad category to highlight programs providing innovative programs and services to make study abroad accessible to a broader student population, I immediately thought of our UC Forward: Sustainable Urbanism program. Please accept this letter as my official endorsement for this award. The Sustainable Urbanism study abroad program is part of our UC Forward program. UC Forward is a philosophy, an idea, a re-imagining of what a university experience should be. It is a one-of-a-kind teaching, learning, and research initiative pairing students and faculty with external experts, all from differing perspectives to solve today's problems and develop tomorrow s workforce in unique and relevant ways. The Sustainable Urbanism program takes this innovation a step further by providing a study abroad to China in addition to the on-campus learning. The University of Cincinnati seeks to provide study abroad opportunities to as many of our students as possible. In our Academic Master Plan, ( UC 2019 ), it outlines nine Operational Principles as the road map for the University of Cincinnati as it enters its third century. One of these Operational Principles is Global Engagement. The University of Cincinnati previously established its UC 2019 goal to double the number of UC students participating in study abroad from 800 ( ) to 1,500 ( ). This past academic year UC sent approximately 1,350 students abroad. Inspired by the Institute of International Education s Generation Study Abroad Challenge, UC has raised its personal goal to 1,700 students studying abroad by For , the University of Cincinnati is committing approximately $862,000 to study abroad scholarships and $100,000 for faculty mentoring and development grants. The Sustainable Urbanism study abroad program is the poster child for the University of Cincinnati s educational experience. We would be honored to have it as a model for the International Education community. Sincerely, Beverly Davenport Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

12 College of Design, Architecture, Art and Plann School of Architecture and Interior Design University of Cincinnati PO Box Cincinnati, Oh Phone Fax Web: Dear Dr. Smith I am writing you at this time to give my highest recommendation for Professor Ming Tang receiving the Innovative use of Technology Teaching Award. Professor Tang is a leader in the field of digital design and fabrication in the field of architecture. Educators all over the world are adopting Professor Tangʼs recent book on parametric building design. His impact on the discipline of architecture, and our students continues to grow. Professor Tang is very deserving of this award. His use of technology in the classroom is both inventive and immersive. The use of technology is inventive in that he has set up a non-linear structure of absorbing online content that allows students to learn through inquisition. Professor Tangʼs online content encourages browsing in the same way that searching library stacks often leads to new discoveries. Professor Tangʼs use of technology is also immersive in that it takes advantage of multiple forms of media to address different styles of learning. Lastly, I suspect the way Professor Tang is using technology today will be the standard for all of our classes in the not so distant future. It not only flips the classroom, but also flips the discourse on teaching. It would be difficult for me to overstate the impact Professor Tang has had on both our students in terms of learning opportunities, as well as faculty who are beginning to embrace the use of technology in teaching because of Professor Tangʼs success. I completely support Professor Tang being a recipient of the Innovative Use of Technology Teaching Award, and I look forward to your favorable review. William Daryl Williams, Director SAID College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning School of Architecture and Interior Design University of Cincinnati PO Box Cincinnati, OH

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14 Craig E. Moyer 451 Ludlow Ave. Apt. 110 Cincinnati, Ohio (937) March 30, 2015 To whom it may concern, I am writing this to give my overwhelming support of Assistant Professor Ming Tang to the review committee for his exceptional use of technology in teaching which has provided countless hours of ongoing support and learning opportunities not only for myself but also for countless numbers of students both graduate and undergraduate who have come before and inevitably, after my time at the University of Cincinnati. It was the fall of 2012 when I was introduced to Assistant Professor Tang during my first digital visualization lab courses where I became familiar with his vast constantly updated digital tutorial library. Ming has created and hosted this library on his personal website and has been updating and cataloging the ongoing video tutorials he has produced over the years for a variety of architectural and design software packages. He not only uses this tutorial library in his lectures in class but also keeps the library open to students to view tutorials at any time they wish. This remarkable contribution has unquestionably contributed a great deal to the ongoing education of future designers and architects at UC. It has contributed such a great amount that the library itself has become somewhat of an online repository of tutorials known amongst the students. I would go so far as to say that the tutorial library has become somewhat infamous amongst the students in DAAP, with students referencing Ming's tutorials who may not have even had Mr. Tang as an instructor for a class. It would be easy to stop at the tutorial library as sufficient evidence of his great contribution to teaching, however Mr. Tang's teaching has also lead to academic success for me personally as well. From the courses I took with Ming, as well as the tutorial library I was able to learn a remarkable amount of information on software in short periods of time. Since I was able to learn the software quickly I was also then given opportunities to assist Mr. Tang in research projects that extended well beyond the limits of my architectural coursework. It is with this knowledge that I write in support of Assistant Professor Ming Tang for the Junior Faculty Award for his outstanding commitment to past, present and future students in digital skills, and for his abilities in effectively teaching complex and sophisticated architectural and design software in an easily digestible and engaging fashion. Sincerely, Craig E. Moyer M.Arch candidate 2016

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17 Student Letter. Trey Meyer From: Trey Meyer Sent: Tuesday, August 27, :14 PM To: Tang, Ming (tangmg) To Whom It May Concern: It is with great pleasure that I write this letter of support on behalf of Professor Ming Tang. I had the opportunity to be under Professor Tang s supervision in two studio courses, ARCH 203 and ARCH 4002, as well as SAID 294, Computer Skills. During my time in the Architecture program, Ming served as a professor as well as a mentor. He made himself available to students outside of studio hours, keeping an open door to all who had questions. As a professor, Ming ran a very organized and rigorous studio. I was able to easily keep track of the progression throughout the course with Ming s implementation of online tools hosted on his ming3d.com website. He kept an updated online schedule to keep students focused and on task. Ming takes advantage of modern strategies of communication and information sharing through such things as his extensive online tutorial library and archived student blog postings. He capitalizes on his advanced level of understanding using digital tools and simulations to help students rethink the process of problem solving. I experienced this in the capstone studio (ARCH 4002), Computational Adaptation. Professor Tang pushed my limits in design thinking as well as in digital computation and understanding. The support, conversation, and motivation he instilled helped in producing a 1 st Place award in ACSA s Fabric in Architecture student design competition. My personal experiences have seen Professor Tang focusing his diverse educational and professional background into a new perspective of viewing design. He is able to relate his knowledge to students in an understandable fashion, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to benefit from his passion for design. I believe having Professor Ming Tang in the School of Architecture and Interior Design strengthens and promotes the school s continued excellence and I strongly support his reappointment at the University of Cincinnati. Trey V Meyer B.S. Arch University of Cincinnati M. Arch Clemson University

18 Student Letter. Nathaniel Hammitt. From: Nathaniel Hammitt Sent: Wednesday, November 09, :33 PM To: Tang, Ming (tangmg) Ming was my professor for Computer Skills 294 during Fall quarter During his course we completed four projects of varying degrees of difficulty. One of the final projects was to document an existing house and design it in Revit (Revit is one of the Architecture industry's predominant design tools). As I am from South Africa, I chose to model South Africa's famous 10x10 houses for this final project ( Unnamed1.jpg). It was a great experience to model an existing house, and I felt that Ming's ability to astutely instruct me in Revit gave me a leg up on my peers when I went out for co-op in the Summer. And in fact, my goal for co-op was to return to South Africa and work with an esteemed international design firm in Cape Town. While interviewing with various architecture companies, I received an inquiry from DesignSpaceAfrica, one of the most well-esteemed design firms in South Africa. They had noticed my portfolio work, and were very impressed with my models of the 10x10 houses-- which they themselves had designed and constructed in AutoCAD but did not have a model of their own project as good as the one which I had done during Ming's class. After speaking with Luyanda Mpahlwa, the principal and lead designer at DesignSpaceAfrica, and learning that his firm was undergoing an extensive firm-wide transition from AutoCAD to Revit I was asked how well I knew Revit and if I would mind using my skills in the program to teach and help develop their firm's response to the program. Given my background with Ming and the work experience I had on one of their very own projects I said "yes" and they hired me right on the spot! I went on to spend my summer on co-op in Cape Town working with DesignSpaceAfrica and guiding their team through their transition from AutoCAD to Revit - and I was even able to assist them in two design projects, one of which I led and submitted to a national design competition for urban issues in Cape Town. None of this would have been possible had it not been for Ming's class and his concerted efforts to teach me how to better use Revit for practical purposes." You are one of the most inspiring teachers on the campus and your commitment to students and their development of good design does not go unnoticed. I hope that these few words will serve you well as you assemble this report to the school. Thanks again for all you do! Nate Nathaniel Hammitt, LEED Green Associate Alpha Rho Chi Worthy Associate Architect University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design BS Architecture 2012