Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Education Forum Project
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Professor Orit Hazzan is the Technion’s Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
Her research focuses on a) policy in STEM education in higher education and b) computer science and software engineering education. As part of her academic and public activities, she promotes collaboration among the academia, the hi-tech industry, IDF and the education system, with respect to science and technology education.
During 2005-2007 she served as the Technion’s vice dean of undergraduate studies; during 2006-2010 she headed the computer science curriculum committee, assigned by the ministry of education, whose role was to scrutinize the high school computer science curriculum and update it according to new developments in the field; in 2011-2015, she chaired the Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology. Under her leadership, the department changed its status to a faculty.
At the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, she heads the Forum on Science and Technology Education.
Professor Hazzan has published about 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and 7 books.
Additional details about her activities, can be found in her professional homepage.
Science and Technology Education Forum
The Forum for Science and Technology Education started its activities in 2013. The purpose of the forum is to establish and promote cooperation between different sectors in Israel in order to foster K-12 science and technology education. The Neaman Institute decided to focus on this topic due to the importance attributed to science and technology education in Israel for the future of the state and the need to increase the number of high-school pupils who choose to study these subjects on the AP level.
Women In Computing
the project focused on how diversity is expressed in the national Informatics Olympiad. There are numerous international, as well as national, science Olympiads that serve as an opportunity for developing and demonstrating intellectual and scientific skills; as such, they attract highly talented and gifted students. Accordingly, a relevant question to be asked is: What does this fact reflect with respect to the expression of diversity in this context? In this study we aim at examining this question by focusing on how diversity is expressed in the Israeli national Informatics Olympiad.
Engineering and the Public Sector: Do They Go Hand in Hand? The Public Sector Needs Engineering Managers
06 July, 2024
Prof. Orit Hazzan urges higher education institutions, especially universities that train engineers, to emphasize the potential for engineering students to integrate into the public sector. She highlights the importance of exposing students to employment opportunities in this field, discussing the significance of engineering thinking in state management, promoting social involvement, addressing public sector problems during their degree programs, and offering diverse professional development paths that bridge the business and public sectors
The Flag Revolution
04 March, 2023
Prof. Orit Hazzan on the flag revolution and what the Israeli flag symbolizes in protest the regime coup.
If Alona bareket can, so can you
17 November, 2016
If you had 100 million shekels, how would you invest them? houses, a private jet, jewelry or football? Alona Barkat chose to invest this amount in a football club.
