Professor Eric Saliim, serves as Director of Curriculum. He started his career as an environmental toxicologist. After obtaining his MS degree in toxicology, Professor Saliim has been instructing students in North Carolina Central University's Biomedical and Biological Sciences Program for over 14 years. As an educator, he is known for his student engagement and in 2017, was recognized by The Chronicles of Higher Education as a Classroom Trailblazer and Innovator. Professor Saliim is an adjunct professor at North Carolina Central University’s FABLAB. Professor Saliim states, “I try to convey to students that, "Science is really fun. We don’t wear suits all day." Since 2015, Professor Saliim has worked with an outreach program of MIT Center for Bit and Atoms called FABLAB and has served as Director of the first FABLAB on an HBCU campus. In this capacity, he has developed and managed the facility in order to engage students in digital fabrication and computation to facilitate a cultural change in a community excluded from the technological revolution.