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Communicate Knowledge
Personal Definition
Personal Definition
To find and present engineering education content using oral/written formats, possibly applying effective teaching methods. It is important to consider diverse learners, design content and pedagogy based on different audience members to meet learning outcomes. Language is key to be inclusive and unbiased in any form of communication.
Aspects Connected to Background
Aspects Connected to Background
I am aware that accessibility to knowledge is a widespread problem. By publishing in journals accessible to everyone, knowledge can reach areas where it may not otherwise be able to reach.
Relation with Career Goals
Relation with Career Goals
To impact engineering education in Puerto Rico, but to do that, I plan to use social media, presentations, and personal connections to properly channel where presentations I can make can have an impact on the island.
Aspects of this Competency
Aspects of this Competency
I plan to communicate knowledge to areas where there are populations that can benefit from this knowledge, whether it be my knowledge or others' knowledge. I also consider language as an important factor when communicating knowledge.
Prior Experience
Prior Experience
This section dictates my prior experience related to Communicate Knowledge.
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These experiences complement my aspiration to proficiency in this competency since they directly show that I have the ability to communicate knowledge I have acquired to a diverse set of audiences.
Published May 2024
Communicated the themes of the paper in a pragmatic way so that it is not just a critical piece, but also usable for a wider audience.
Presented at the AERA 2024 Conference and the ASEE 2024 Conference
My contribution to this paper is regarding synthesizing the introduction, literature review, and communicating findings. We are currently in the revision and first draft submission process.
Although this does not directly relate to my dissertation work, it mainly concerns student learning and allowed me to pull from my mathematics teaching certificate experience, CAP (content, assessment, and pedagogy) course, and my human factors knowledge.
IUSE June 2022, ASEE June 2022. AERA April 2023
Along with the UBelong Collaborative team I either created or helped create and present posters about our papers at several conferences. We talk about the pilot intervention and its effects on how it may help students gain a sense of belonging in introductory engineering courses.
We present how demographic disparities are related to the sense of belonging in engineering:
[Click here to see the IUSE 2022 Poster]
We specifically talk about the process of creating an intervention that may help students gain a sense of belonging in introductory engineering courses:
[Click here to see the ASEE 2022 Poster]
[Click here to see the ASEE 2022 Paper]
We describe how this mixed-methods study addressed the efficacy of the ecological belonging intervention.
History and Migration of the U.S. territories seminar presentation
History and Migration of the U.S. territories seminar presentation
April 2023
This independent research examines the history, culture, and migration from U.S. territories to the United States mainland. From a historical perspective, the United States acquired its territories differently. Before this acquisition, other countries ruled these places such as Japan, Spain, Denmark, Germany, or Great Britain. Native to these places are the Chamorro and Taíno peoples, which both hold significant contributions to cultural and identity development today. These histories can influence how students from these areas experience engineering education in the mainland United States.
[Click here to see the list of readings]
Simulation-based Training in the Manufacturing Industry: A Suggested Quick Assessment
Simulation-based Training in the Manufacturing Industry: A Suggested Quick Assessment
HCI Conference Summer 2023
Despite the benefits of simulation-based training, research has shown that knowledge transfer may not be a guarantee. We suggest easy-to-implement tools for industry professionals to create learning objectives with an online generator used by teachers in the education field. I will present this in presentation format at the Human-computer Interaction 2023 conference.
Where are the gays? Literature Review
Where are the gays? Literature Review
ASEE Conference Summer 2022 and Purdue student oSTEM presentation
This systematized literature review is the product of a collaboration between Héctor Rodríguez-Simmonds and Kevin Kaufman-Ortiz. Both have created similar systematized literature reviews for the ENE503 course and decided to collaborate and create a more comprehensive literature review. We presented this at the ASEE conference in Minneapolis, MN in 2022 and then I was invited to present it to the oSTEM Chapter at Purdue University in 2023.
[Click here to see the ASEE 2022 Conference presentation]
[Click here to see the oSTEM chapter presentation]
Engineering Design in a Physics Laboratory Case Study
Engineering Design in a Physics Laboratory Case Study
ASEE Conference Summer 2022
As part of the ENE explorer's program, I worked with Dr. Jason Morphew to understand how students realize metacognition and transfer when an engineering design project is integrated into a physics laboratory. We presented this poster at the ASEE 2022 conference.
[Click here to see poster]
[Click here to read the paper]
Novel Feature Selection Method
Novel Feature Selection Method
2017-2020
I presented this work in several conferences over the development of the method. Here are a variety of ways I communicated this work.
PRISM at Turabo University Presentation
ININ Research Showcase
IISE Annual Conference
[Click here to see the finished paper]
Programming Music Presentation
Programming Music Presentation
September 2019
I learned to use assertion evidence principles to make more effective presentations and facilitate technical communication. This presentation is just a concept, it is not based on research.
[Press here to see the recorded presentation]
Current Works
Current Works
This section demonstrates what I am currently working on related to communicating knowledge.
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These experiences demonstrate my aspiration to proficiency by continually working on this competency.
UBelong Posters/Presentations
UBelong Posters/Presentations
AERA 2025, ASEE 2025
I'll support creation of the poster for the ASEE and AERA conferences for 2025.
Red de Confianza: Trusting networks in Latinx engineering education research
Red de Confianza: Trusting networks in Latinx engineering education research
Started Spring 2025
This work is a continuation of Ser Marica es pa’ Machos: Agency, Activism, and Coping While Engineering.
We describe the trust-building process we went through in our collaborative autoethnography and how it is conceptualized in Spanish vs English. We are synthesizing the literature on trust, relationship building, queer worldmaking, and other things.
July 2021 [Currently paused]
-BRIDGE is a 6-week summer research program that prepares incoming graduate students in many aspects of graduate school life
-This research was ideated by Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz while helping Dr. Justin Hess on a different engineering ethics project.
-Kevin’s background and experiences led him to research the importance of identifying this gap in the literature
Occupational Puerto Rican engineering migrants' narrative analysis
Occupational Puerto Rican engineering migrants' narrative analysis
Starting Fall 2025
Will present this work in the Purdue ENE seminar at the end of the semester. Will invite Cornell folks to this seminar to listen about this work.
Future Direction
Future Direction
Future plans that may help me achieve this goal.
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UBelong Posters/Presentations
UBelong Posters/Presentations
AERA 2024, ASEE 2024
The UBelong Collaborative team will publish in the ASEE and AERA conferences next year. I'll be creating the poster for the ASEE conference and supporting the creation of the presentation for the AERA efforts.
History of Engineering Education in PR Presentation
History of Engineering Education in PR Presentation
Spring 2026
This effort is to help begin to describe a history of engineering education in Puerto Rico.
This presentation will allow me to keep in touch with the island as well as help students understand the importance of history in their engineering degrees.
Other Conferences
Other Conferences
TBD
I also plan to participate in other engineering education conferences such as the FIE and SEFI Conferences
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