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Investment in Math Education is Needed to Fuel the STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By integrating real-world applications into the curriculum, we can demonstrate the utility and versatility of mathematics in various fields, particularly in STEM careers. When students see the utility of math in their lives and future careers, they may be more willing to engage and persist in their studies.

Education 298
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The Space In-Between: Confidence, Comfort, and Self-Care During the College to Career Transition

Clark Nesxen

After a year and a half as a full-time architectural designer, I’m finally getting the hang of “adulting” and starting to feel settled into my career. Upon settling into the role, I found myself utilizing recently acquired skills, and I was reminded to celebrate my successes. Go to the company happy hour.

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Bringing Marketing’s Vision to Life with Computational Design: 2022 Holiday Card Story

Clark Nesxen

It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively. Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

Research 130
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Designing A Successful Engineering Building: A Case Study of Fitts-Woolard Hall

Clark Nesxen

Completed in 2020, working on the 225,000 square feet Fitts-Woolard Hall was incredibly unique because it has various laboratories, such as a structural testing lab, a large-scale driving simulator, computational labs, and education and research labs. Since we were able to coordinate early, the project was indeed an integrated process.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. students in robotics to advance mutual research priorities. UC Merced 2020 , a $1.3B

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Get Wild! Gamification Creates Immersive, On-Demand Faculty Development 

The Scholarly Teacher

She designed the objectives, content and assessment questions, conducted most of the research and developed a storyboard and other resources to guide the creation of the training. The team’s research indicated that including game elements creates a more captivating training that holds the learners’ interest and increases motivation.

Faculty 130