I am excited to take on a new role as the Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this position, I will be responsible for the operations of the three undergraduate programs: bioengineering, neural engineering, and CS + BIOE.
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I have recently been exploring ways to adopt second brain techniques to manage and organize my research. At the ASEE 2023 conference, I shared a tips and tricks paper in the NEE division. The full paper is available in the ASEE archive.
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About a year after the pilot of the SPARK program, we reached out to the participants to see how the program prepared them for their academic job search. We published these results, details of the program, and other feedback at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference in Baltimore. The full paper is available on ASEE's website.
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After successfully switching to specifications grading in BIOE415, I shared my process of how I transitioned to specifications grading in a paper presented at the IEEE Frontiers in Education conference in 2022. The full paper can be found on IEEEXplore.
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In the spring of 2021, a group of faculty who taught lab and design courses came together to share lessons learned from remote classes. We found that we could have benefited from a community of practice (CoP) to be able to share ideas and collaboratively solve issues in our courses as we continued to adapt to changes in higher education. At the 2022 ASEE annual conference, we presented a paper that shared the process of forming the CoP and the first year of programming. The full paper is available from ASEE.
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Last spring, UIUC announced that we were moving from Compass2g (Blackboard) to Canvas this academic year. So, I've been exploring Canvas over the summer and decided to jump in and move my course to Canvas this fall. My plan is to share tips about developing courses in Canvas along the way.
Since I have to manually move my content, my goals for this semester are to have a paperless lab and the content is also accessible for all students in my lab. For the latter, I am going to draw from the UDL guidelines and the IT Accessibility 101 course provided by the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services at Illinois.
My first course in Canvas will be BIOE415: Biomedical Instrumentation Lab. I'm organizing each lab into a module with background information and the experiment instructions. Therefore a lot of my content is getting transferred to pages that are just webpages and you can edit the HTML if you know what you are doing.
My first tip is about how to add figure captions to images on pages in Canvas. It is easy if you know HTML, but not if you are trying to search for how to do it on Canvas pages.
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Recent Publications
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Tips for Creating a Functional Personal Knowledge Management System in Academia
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Preparing Women in STEM for Faculty Careers through a Job Search Workshop Series
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Adopting Alternative Grading in an Upper-Level Laboratory Course in Bioengineering
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Development of a Community of Practice for Rethinking Best Practices in Post-COVID Experiential Learning
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Converting a Biomedical Instrumentation Lab From In-person to Online