Enas Aref — Assistant Teaching Professor, BGSU

Building human-centered systems for education, technology, and the people inside them.

I work at the intersection of human factors, AI ethics, instructional design, and management — building frameworks, tools, and deployed systems that institutions can actually use.

College of Engineering and Innovation · Bowling Green State University earef@bgsu.edu

What I build

Five domains. One through-line.

I spot structural problems in fields where people are underserved by the systems designed to support them — and I build things that address them. Each research and teaching domain is independent and rigorous; together, they form a coherent scholarly identity.

AI-Integrated Education

Seven-layer framework ecosystem for ethical, human-centered AI integration in higher education. Deployed agents, evaluation rubrics, and literacy models.

Ergonomics & Human Factors

Machine learning and computer vision applied to fatigue classification in repetitive motion tasks. Interdisciplinary PhD research at WMU.

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

Designing learning environments that recognize the full humanity of students and educators. Grounded in care ethics, grief scholarship, and practice.

Management & Organizations

Team dynamics, conflict resolution, project management, and AI integration in organizational settings. Classroom-tested and practitioner-grounded.

Teaching Innovation

Instructional design, active learning, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Curriculum development across engineering, technology, and management.

Selected impact

Work that reaches beyond the classroom.

Scholarship that is classroom-tested becomes more useful when it travels — into institutions, policy conversations, and practitioner communities. Below is one example of that reach.

Michigan SBDC · Google.org Initiative

The AI Literacy Framework was cited as a core framework in the Michigan Small Business Development Center's official guide on Artificial Intelligence for Small Businesses — part of America's SBDC AI U, a national initiative supported by a $10 million Google.org grant to equip small businesses across the United States with AI literacy and tools.