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I am currently a faculty member in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University as an Associate Teaching Professor. I am the director of the Make to Innovate program and Assistant Director for the Iowa Space Grant Consortium. My areas of research and interest are in Engineering Education and using tools like virtual and augmented reality, games, and hands-on learning to teach students new skills. My background is in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BS and MS) and Human-Computer Interaction (PhD). I am also a licensed Amateur Radio operator (KB0MGQ) and hold my Private Pilot's license and my Part 107 license. I do a lot with aviation, including the high-altitude balloon program that I run at ISU as well.

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Employment (2)

Iowa State University: Ames, US

2024-08-01 to present | Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Make to Innovate, Assistant Director for Iowa Space Grant Consortium (Aerospace Engineering)
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Matthew E. Nelson

Iowa State University: Ames, US

2019-01-01 to 2024-07-31 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of Make to Innovate, Assistant Director for Iowa Space Grant Consortium (Aerospace Engineering)
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Professional activities (4)

Iowa State University: Ames, Iowa, US

2019-05 to present | Entrepreneurship Fellow (Aerospace Engineering )
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American Society For Engineering Education: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2016 to present
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Stratospheric Ballooning Association: Ames, IA, US

2012 to present | President
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IEEE: New York, NY, US

1999 to present
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Funding (1)

National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program - Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020 - 2024

2020-07 to 2024-06 | Grant
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, US)
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80NSSC20M0107
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Works (6)

Use of games to teach teamwork and communication skills to engineering students

2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
2021-10-13 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637377
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Implementation of an Inductive Learning and Teaching Framework for an Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Control Class

2020-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--34772
Contributors: A. Ram Kim; Benjamin Ahn; Matthew Nelson
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A collaborative project using high altitude balloons to design, build and test space hardware in a classroom setting

2020-04-15 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.31274/ahac.201
Contributors: Christine Nelson; Matthew Nelson
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Make to Innovate: Blending of Project-based Learning and Flipped Classroom Pedagogies to Provide Real-world Engineering Experiences to Engineering Students

2019-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--33074
Contributors: Matthew Nelson; Benjamin Ahn; Christine Nelson
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Board 68: Work in Progress: Developing Engineering Students’ Professional Development Skills through Augmented and Virtual Reality Gaming Environments

2018-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--30086
Contributors: Matthew Nelson; Benjamin Ahn
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Teaching Students Science and Engineering with High Altitude Balloons and ChipKits

2014-06 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--23104
Contributors: Matthew Nelson
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