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I am a tenured associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tennessee Tech University. I have been on the faculty since 1999, earning tenure status in 2004. From 2009 – 2018, while maintaining my tenure in ME, I held a campus leadership position as the Director of the Oakley Center for Teaching and Learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. During my leadership, the Center worked with more than 40 faculty from across campus and secured more than ten million dollars in state and federal funded STEM education research programs. I have published research in vibrations diagnostics in a variety of applications, from materials characterization to timber foundations in bridges. I have chaired for three PhD graduates and 15 Masters students, and served on more than 20 graduate committees. I am currently advising a PhD candidate and I work with four undergraduate researchers in signal analysis for feature extraction. I teach 70+ students in Dynamics, and 70+ students in Mechanical Measurements each semester. I was recently PI for four years on a ten-year funded program, totaling approximately two million dollars, for the Army Education Outreach Programs (AEOP) Research Experiences for STEM Educators and Teachers (RESET). I have held numerous officer roles in the Southeast Section of ASEE, and am a Past President. I am the Program Chair and Chair Elect of the ASEE Division of Experiment and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS) for 2019-2020. I am a member of the Board of Trustees for Tennessee Tech University, elected from the Faculty Senate to serve for two years, 2019-2021.
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