Overview
I'm an Associate Professor of the Practice, teaching some required courses for the MEMS major. My research areas are: structural mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and engineering/STEM education.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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2021 - Present
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Pratt School of Engineering
Associate Professor of the Practice of Mathematics
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2022 - Present
Mathematics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Experiences in a study abroad utilizing deliberate psychological education
Journal Article Counselor Education and Supervision · March 1, 2025 Faculty-led study abroad programs promote professional and personal development for counseling students. Through interpretive phenomenological analysis, we explored how Latine bilingual counseling students (N = 7) experienced a study abroad utilizing Delib ... Full text CiteWork in Progress: Evaluation of 360 Coaching to Support Whole-Student Advising in the First-Year
Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 CiteInterrogating the Configuration Space of Postbuckled Beams
Journal Article Journal of Engineering Mechanics · March 1, 2023 This paper considers the global configuration space of postbuckled structures. Initially, a slender buckled beam is considered. The boundary conditions are pinned at one end and fully fixed at the other. The pin-end of the initially flat beam is moved towa ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Duke Girls Exploring Math (DukeGEM)
Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Mathematical Association of America · 2021 - 2023High-Frequency Broadband Energy-Intensity Boundary Element Method Applied to Aircraft Panels Excited by a Turbulent Boundary Layer
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2003 - 2007View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
2007
Ph.D.