Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
I bought and hung this solar system for my son when he was just 1yo. He admired it for many years. Today I brought it into my classroom for my STEM students and they love it just as much! I even built a simple lightweight winch out of an empty spool of 3D printing PLA…
As an elementary school STEM teacher it would be a disservice to my students if I didn’t introduce them to 3D printing in this day and age. So our school bought a couple printers this school year and I’ve kept them running almost constantly. It’s been more fun that I imagined it would be. I’m…
My new office at Stetson University is so serene and beautiful. I am very lucky (and thankful) to have it. It’s located in the historic Elizabeth Hall right next to Lee Chapel. Whenever I need a break, I can simply turn around and look out onto the beautiful palm courtyard. I can often hear lovely…
Saw a talk today at the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence at Stetson by Assistant Professor of Voice, Chadley Ballantyne, titled What’s the Buzz? Auditory roughness and vibrotactile awareness. It was fantastic! I admit, I know very little music theory in general (and absolutely nothing about vocal theory!), but Chad’s talk was still…
I needed to illustrate a radiometry concept recently, but I didn’t want to draw it manually with Adobe Illustrator or whatever. I was afraid that parts of the diagram wouldn’t look to-scale, and I was especially worried that if I had to show the diagram from multiple angles, that proportions wouldn’t line up exactly. I’m…
Khim Kelly, UCF College of Business professor, presented a talk today on perfomance-based rewards at our Summer Lecture Series at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training. Kelly, K., Presslee, A., & Webb. A. 2017. The effects of tangible rewards versus cash rewards in consecutive sales tournaments: A field experiment. The Accounting Review, 92(6): 165-185….
Volunteered at our local National Center for Simulation (NCS)’s 2019 Hall of Fame Induction. This year they inducted: Dr. Peter Hancock, Dr. Randall Shumaker, and Michael Tschanz. In previous years, they have inducted the following modsim leaders. It was refreshing to see so many people from so many industries supporting the modeling and simulation community!
Won a best poster award at UCF IST School of Modeling, Simulation & Training‘s first research+industry forum, dubbed SMST Day. If interested, here is the poster I presented. Congratulations also to Arash Zarmehr for both his posters! He’s done some fantastic work in the building performance space. You can see I’m always promoting Cacti Council…
Added a LaTeX template for homework assignments on Overleaf. Please feel free to use it. I’m biased, but I think it’s neat and organized (and my TA liked it). It’s even Star Trek themed! Here is an example PDF.
Participated in the UCF Graduate Research Forum this year. Hundreds of graduate students presented some of their research in poster format, in a ballroom at the student union. Judges came by and delved into the topic with each participant. It was really nice to see so many budding scientists and so much interest work taking…