CONSTRUKTS, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation with headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We are a consumer electronics company that develops wireless sensor network technologies and consumer electronic products in education and health.
CONSTRUKTS, Inc. is founded on the belief that diversity in the perspective of disciplines, talents and methods will produce illuminating ideas and innovations that have great impact on how we work, learn and play.
CONSTRUKTS, Inc. is founded on the belief that diversity in the perspective of disciplines, talents and methods will produce illuminating ideas and innovations that have great impact on how we work, learn and play.
Pamela L. Jennings, PhD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer & President
www.pamelajennings.org
Pamela L. Jennings is Head and Professor of the Department of Art +Design at North Carolina State University and CEO of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. consumer electronics research company developing mixed-reality and wireless technologies for learning. Solution finding, through computational thinking and creativity has been the catalyst of Pamela’s policy, philanthropic, academic, research, and entrepreneurial projects. She has developed, taught, and advocated for integrative knowledge production across a range of institutions of creativity, learning, and research.
Following the completion of her Master of Fine Arts degree, Pamela collaborated on research projects at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. At both think-tanks she participated in human centered computing and STEM Learning projects that integrated advanced technologies in near-field communication, speech recognition, embedded technologies, and mobile applications. Pamela held the first joint professorship appointment between the School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. There she developed an integrative curriculum that blended learning across new media arts, design, computer science, engineering, and human centered interaction Pamela served as a National Science Foundation Program Officer in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering, directorate. There she led the CreativeIT program and co-led the Human Centered Computing program along with other synergistic NSF funding initiatives. The CreativeIT program funded high risk-high reward research at the nexus of creative cognition and creative practices with research in computer science, engineering, and STEM learning.
Pamela’s technology research and innovations are rooted in her creative works in traditional and new media. Early in her career she became a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her creative works are discussed in several books including “Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists”, Oxford University Press and “Struggles for Representation: African American Film/Video/New Media Makers”, Indiana University Press. She has presented her creative works at several Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) conferences and other world-wide cultural institutions. Pamela curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared visions between art and technology” that was held at the National Academies of Sciences. The exhibition was funded by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Creativity and Cognition Conference.
Pamela L. Jennings received her PhD in Human Centered Systems Design in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts at the University of Plymouth School of Computing, Electronics, and Mathematics (UK); MBA at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business; MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts; MA in Studio Art in the International Center of Photography/New York University Program; and BA in Psychology with vocal studies at Oberlin College.
Chief Executive Officer & President
www.pamelajennings.org
Pamela L. Jennings is Head and Professor of the Department of Art +Design at North Carolina State University and CEO of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. consumer electronics research company developing mixed-reality and wireless technologies for learning. Solution finding, through computational thinking and creativity has been the catalyst of Pamela’s policy, philanthropic, academic, research, and entrepreneurial projects. She has developed, taught, and advocated for integrative knowledge production across a range of institutions of creativity, learning, and research.
Following the completion of her Master of Fine Arts degree, Pamela collaborated on research projects at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. At both think-tanks she participated in human centered computing and STEM Learning projects that integrated advanced technologies in near-field communication, speech recognition, embedded technologies, and mobile applications. Pamela held the first joint professorship appointment between the School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. There she developed an integrative curriculum that blended learning across new media arts, design, computer science, engineering, and human centered interaction Pamela served as a National Science Foundation Program Officer in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering, directorate. There she led the CreativeIT program and co-led the Human Centered Computing program along with other synergistic NSF funding initiatives. The CreativeIT program funded high risk-high reward research at the nexus of creative cognition and creative practices with research in computer science, engineering, and STEM learning.
Pamela’s technology research and innovations are rooted in her creative works in traditional and new media. Early in her career she became a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her creative works are discussed in several books including “Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists”, Oxford University Press and “Struggles for Representation: African American Film/Video/New Media Makers”, Indiana University Press. She has presented her creative works at several Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) conferences and other world-wide cultural institutions. Pamela curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared visions between art and technology” that was held at the National Academies of Sciences. The exhibition was funded by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Creativity and Cognition Conference.
Pamela L. Jennings received her PhD in Human Centered Systems Design in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts at the University of Plymouth School of Computing, Electronics, and Mathematics (UK); MBA at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business; MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts; MA in Studio Art in the International Center of Photography/New York University Program; and BA in Psychology with vocal studies at Oberlin College.
CONSTRUKTS TEAM
The development of CONSTRUKTS has been a collaborative process across many disciplines from the arts to electrical engineering with professional contract designers and engineers and corporate partnerships with Wolfram Research (Urbana-Champaign), Daedalus Product Design (Pittsburgh) and San Juan Software (Seattle). Undergraduate and graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University, North Carolina State University, and Winston-Salem State University have participated in design and technology skills development opportunities alongside team professionals. The most important aspect of the CONSTRUKTS project has been collaborative learning and discovery. Sharing our insights and skills in an open, non-judgmental environment enabled the development of a system that is much larger than the skills and perspective of any one team member or discipline.
CORPORATE, FEDERAL & university partnerships
Wolfram Research: Computation Meets Knowledge
Microsoft HoloLens for Academic Research Program
Highway1 (a PCH International Company) Hardware Start-up Incubator
2015 National Science Foundation, Cybermanufacturing
2013 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
2008 National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
Daedalus Product Development Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Daedalus provides a full slate of research, design, human factors, engineering, and manufacturing transition services to medical, scientific, consumer and industrial product companies.
San Juan Software Seattle, Washington
San Juan Software provides products, training and services to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in order to promote the widespread adoption of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standard for wireless sensor networks.
San Juan Software provides products, training and services to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in order to promote the widespread adoption of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standard for wireless sensor networks.
