Valerdi wins Distinguished Outreach Professor Award

The University of Arizona has released a new video celebrating SIE professor Ricardo Valerdi's designation as Distinguished Outreach Professor. The award recognizes his outstanding contributions to STEM education for his project, The Science of Baseball. 

"If you really want to increase the number of students that go into STEM, why not impact them in elementary school?" Valerdi says in the video. "That's where the Science of Baseball comes in. We explain to them 'Hey, Science of Baseball is about changing your perspective.' Launch angles, geometry, physics, Newton's laws of motion. All of these really relevant topics that they can now apply to baseball."

Valerdi's research focuses on systems engineering, cost estimation, and sports analytics. He served on the Board of Directors of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Valerdi is also UA’s Faculty Athletics Representative for the PAC-12 and NCAA.