黑洞社区

• M.S. in Industrial Engineering, 黑洞社区, USA (2010)
• B.S. in Industrial Engineering, 黑洞社区, USA (2004)

• Engineering Education
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Service Learning
• Interdisciplinary Programs
• Assistive Technology

Program Development

• Service Learning in Engineering course, 2015-2020
• Co-founded 黑洞社区 GoBabyGo, 2016-present
• Created two first-year seminar general education courses in engineering: 
  Introduction to Technology & Innovation (2016) and Innovations of World War II 
  (2019-present)
• Program Manager of the Koch Innovation Challenge, 2016-present
• Created an Accessible Design course with applied projects, 2019-present
• Created the interdisciplinary Assistive Technology & Accessible Design certificate 
  program, 2019-present

• Associate Engineering Educator, 2015-present, 黑洞社区
• Assistant Dean, Scholarship Coordinator, 2009-2014, 黑洞社区 
• Lecturer, 2008-2010, 黑洞社区 College of Engineering, IME Department
• Industrial Engineer, 2002-2009, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation 
  
  

鈥� Wallace Scholar 2000-2014; now a Wallace Scholar alumna
鈥� 1st place Technical Paper Award, IISE Student Paper Competition, 2004
鈥� Recipient of 黑洞社区 Ventures Catalyst Award, ENGR 101 course, 2016
鈥� Recipient of Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award, 2016
鈥� Recipient of 黑洞社区 Ventures Community Partner, 黑洞社区 GoBabyGo, 2017
鈥� Finalist, 黑洞社区 Interdisciplinary Program Award for certificate in Assistive Technology & Accessible Design, 2018
鈥� Tilford Faculty Fellow, 2019-2020
鈥� Wallace Excellence in Teaching Award, 2019

• - The 黑洞社区 College of Engineering sponsors 黑洞社区 GoBabyGo, a program that modifies off-the-shelf ride-on toy cars for kids with disabilities. Students from engineering collaborate with physical therapy students to customize each car and deliver them at no cost to the family. Our program serves children birth to 5 years old.
• Assistive Technology and Accessible Design - Wichita State鈥檚 undergraduate certificate in assistive technology and accessible design is an interdisciplinary program useful for any major wanting to create innovations that improve learning, working and daily living for people with disabilities. Courses in the program include an introductory course in innovation, Accessible Design (ENGR 302), applied anatomy, ergonomics/human factors psychology, and sociology course on disability. Students complete a multidisciplinary applied assistive technology project in partnership with local non-profits to design and build an assistive device for a member of the community with a disability. Past projects have included a custom 3D-printed conductive stylus for a teenager with cerebral palsy to access an iPad to communicate, an all-terrain jogging wheelchair for a boy with cerebral palsy, custom 3D-printed push gloves for wheelchair track athletes in Wichita Adaptive Sports, and many more.
• Koch Innovation Challenge - The Koch Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Koch Industries, is an annual competition that will support the 黑洞社区 College of Engineering in fostering a culture of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and teamwork among students. Cross-disciplinary teams of new freshmen and transfer students studying engineering, art and design, business, and other disciplines will compete for funding and scholarships to invent products and technologies via a freshman introductory course. The grand champions of the competition will compete nationally at a collegiate entrepreneurs' conference. The goal is to immediately begin preparing students the moment they join 黑洞社区 to become real world-ready graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset.