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Sophia Santillan

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
187 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708-0302
187 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences


WIP: Establishing Peer Observation of Engineering Teaching (POET) as a More Effective Means of Evaluating Teaching

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2025 This work in progress paper investigates a model for peer observation of engineering teaching (POET) and its potential use in regular evaluations for instructors. Applying lessons learned from an initial pilot program as well as perspectives from the liter ... Full text Cite

Work 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 Cite

IT'S CURLING NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS!

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 2023 In a sophomore level dynamics class in Duke University's Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science department, a tabletop sized ice rink was built to demonstrate collision mechanics of Curling stones. Cameras and image processing techniques were used to ... Full text Cite

WIP - 360 Coaching to Support Whole-Student Advising in the First-Year

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · August 23, 2022 Cite

Women in Engineering: 3D Printing Interests, Habits, and Persistence

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · July 26, 2021 Makerspaces are increasingly merging with academics in undergraduate engineering programs. At Duke University, engineering students are introduced to prototyping in makerspaces in their first-year engineering design course. In later engineering coursework, ... Cite

Supporting Students' Skillful Learning: Lessons Learned from a Faculty Development Workshop

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · July 26, 2021 We describe the implementation of an on-campus workshop focused on supporting faculty as they develop metacognitive interventions for their educational contexts. This on-campus workshop at Duke University included engineering faculty as well as other facul ... Cite

Work-In-Progress: Engineering self-efficacy in first-year design

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 22, 2020 This work-in-progress paper describes the implementation and results of surveys to understand the impact of a first-year engineering design course on students. During the Engineering Design and Communication (EGR 101) course, students work in teams to lear ... Cite

Correlation between homework solution website use and course performance

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2011 Cite

Nonlinear two-dimensional elastica analysis of subsea risers

Conference 7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics Eurodyn 2008 · January 1, 2008 This paper models two configurations of flexible risers and pipelines as slender elastica structures. The theoretical formulation leads to a type of nonlinear boundary value problem that can be solved numerically given appropriate boundary conditions. The ... Cite