I lead a cross-divisional team to identify and intervene with undergraduates who may benefit from student success supports. We created a predictive analytics algorithm to identify current undergraduates who may take longer than four years to graduate and who may exhaust federal aid before their degree is in hand. Identified students are invited to participate in a Canvas-based intervention designed to increase students' knowledge about personal finances & financial aid. Students complete academic plans of study to map out courses through graduation and use a webapp we created to visualize their personal expected financial aid usage through graduation. This helps students align their academic plans with their financial aid resources.  We are tracking outcomes from our students to see if this intervention helps promote timely graduation.  UNC Charlotte has filed an intent-to-use trademark for Fund to Finish™. 

I serve as the project evaluator for this multiyear NSF-funded project to further improve the authorship ethics culture at our institution. Authorship practices are often part of the "hidden curriculum" in academia. We instituted the university-wide Authorship Policy and Resolution Procedures at UNC Charlotte to define what our institution considers good practices for authorship decisions and to outline procedures that researchers can follow if conflicts arise. We are also providing training to graduate students and graduate faculty on authorship ethics and how to have transparent, productive conversations with research collaborators about authorship on a given project. We are tracking if this intervention helps provide trainees with increased knowledge & confidence about how to have a conversation about authorship, and if this work can positively impact perceptions about authorship practices at our institution. 

I am Co-PI & Evaluator on a 3-year NSF funded project designed to test the effectiveness of a novel STEM Communication Training curriculum for graduate students. 

Mechanical engineering courses rely heavily on background knowledge, requiring students to recall and apply information they have learned in previous courses to new courses. This 4-year project with UNC Charlotte, NC State, and NC A&T seeks to scale the use of adaptive learning in the mechanical engineering curriculum. Adaptive learning technology helps create personally-tailored learning paths for students, allowing them to refresh themselves on key concepts and skills as needed to progress successfully in a course.  I am a Co-PI and Evaluator for this NSF-sponsored project.