Teaching & Mentorship

Dedicated to STEM Excellence through Equity and Diversity

  • My mission is to increase the number of underrepresented and minoritized students who graduate from engineering programs

    I am able to accomplish this through encouraging collaboration, and emphasizing diversity as a critical component to the learning environment. I believe that my responsibility as a teacher is to instill confidence in my students to question and challenge me. In my teaching, I will incorporate inclusive teaching methods into my curriculum, and ensure that students from diverse backgrounds have voices in my classrooms.

  • My goal is to serve as a role model for students of color who do not see their place in STEM

    Using my background and experience to interpersonally connect with students, I will continue to educate and train myself on teaching across cultures and backgrounds, while ensuring classroom activities are curated to diverse audiences.

Courses

SUSTAIN 101D: Sustainable Innovation for Disaster Resilience (Fall 2023)

Course Description: Disaster Resilience embodies two concepts: adaptation and recovery. As climate change exacerbates the occurrence and intensity of environmental disasters, innovators and decision makers must collaborate to help vulnerable communities and the built environment adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses in a sustainable way without compromising long-term development. This course is tailored to solution-oriented students who are comfortable focusing on wicked problems, and care about the complexity of sustainable and equitable innovation. The course intends to teach students how to lead the design and implementation of products and services that will help real people who are experiencing disaster, with an emphasis on those facing disproportionate effects due to historical contexts.

Partners

CEE 245E: Equitable Infrastructure Solutions (Winter 2023)

Inaugural 2023 Cohort

Inaugural 2023 Cohort

Course Description: The built environment enables access to economic and social mobility, however access to such systems is not uniform across communities. This creates infrastructure inequity. Climate change threatens to exacerbate existing inequities in interdependent infrastructure systems such as energy, transportation, air, and water/wastewater to name a few. The engineer of tomorrow must understand the inequities in the system and the policies that produced them in order to develop robust and innovative approaches to design and manage future systems. This course will introduce students to the prominent theories of equity and environmental justice with a focus on implementation for infrastructure. Students will learn the limitations of decontextualized technical engineering solutions and their impacts on society. Upon completion of the course, students will understand how to abstract and develop models that incorporate elements of equity and justice in civil engineering systems. This course is designed to prepare next generation engineers for careers in which they will participate in projects that directly affect historically marginalized communities.