STUDENT DEVELOPMENT

Investing in students growth and development is my favorite part of my job. I take every opportunity to work with students inside the classroom or out to help them develop a bright future for themselves and for their families. If you look into the students’ survey, you can see that I have been identified by my students as “caring professor”. Over the past five years, I have been maintaining the following activities to contribute to student development: student club advisor, preparing students of national competitions, preparing students for national exams, writing recommendation letters, and sponsoring students in conferences. The following table summarizes these activities.

1-Advisor for the Beaver, Engineering, and Design Student club
As a club advisor, I find growth opportunities for my students in the club. Other responsibilities include: securing funds for the club activities, arranging fund raising activities, involving other faculty in the department, inviting the community for some events, providing training to certain skills, maintaining weekly meeting, and sharing BSU events with the club. Over the past five years, I have worked with my club on the following:

2016 ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition (ASC)
Fund raising “Duck Call” event: Oct 2015, 2016, 2018, &2019.
Nominating student for the 2015 BSU awards
Present the Beaver Organization Bash to represent the club
1st Annual Beaver Engineering & Design Club: Ice Fishing Tournament Feb 2016
Manufacturing tour 2016, 2017
Making your own ice rods 2017, 2020
Boys and girls club STEM day April 2018, Nov 2018, April 2019, Oct 2019
CAD workshop 2019
BSU Community appreciation day 2019
Relay For Life | Cancer Walk | Cancer Fundraising, 2020

Weekly meeting with the my club planning for events

Ice fishing rods workshop , 2020

Meeting to plan for STEM day for the boys and girls club , 2018

Pictures from the STEM days at the boys and girls club

A picture after a duck call event

A meeting with the club members

CAD workshop lead by the club

Brainstorming session for club activities

The club participation in the 2019 BSU community appreciation day

Club participation in ION competition

Duck call activity, 2015

One of the club officers receive the leader of the month, 2017

Club fundraising activity

Sharing important information with the club members such as advising hours

The club participation in the Beaver Organization Bash

Flyer for the club promoting monthly industrial visit

The club visit to the MNDOT

Club flyer for the duck call activity

The club members visits local industries

Pictures from duck call activity in 2016

Club members after an activity

A flyer for the club to promote the duck call activity 2019

The club members promoting ice fishing rods, 2017

Pictures from the ice fishing rods in 2017

Sharing information with the club members such as career expo

The club members planed to attend the Relay for life

Picture of the club attends

2. Preparing students of national competitions
Preparing students for the 2017 APICS student case study competition. It was an amazing experience as students received the fourth place.

3. Preparing students for national certifications e.g. lean six sigma
Amazing success for TADT students achieving 96% passing rate in the national exam of lean six sigma

4. Connecting students with potential employers. See the following examples.

5. Writing recommendation letters for students to support their applications for employment or scholarship opportunities.

6. Sponsoring 21 students to present in the student achievement conference in 2016 & 2018

7. Serving as a member on graduate committees (masters and PhD) and advisor for an honor thesis
I had the pleasure to serve as a member on one PhD thesis, eight masters theses, and two MBA capstone project. I also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor for thesis for an honor program. The following is the list of the theses:

Doctor of Philosophy In Mechanical Engineering: Ms. Kolluri Aruna Prabha “Design And Implementation Of In-Process Monitoring System For Turning Operations: A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach”, 2020
Master of Special Education: Ashley Orth “Benefits and Challenges of Assistive Technology in the Special Education Classroom”, 2019
Master of Special Education: Mitchell Nelson “Assistive Technologies That Promote Independence For Secondary Special Education Students”, 2017
MBA Capstone Project: Courtney Gifford - “Good For The Sole: A Company Overview”
MBA Capstone Project: Patrick Tobin: “Dash Shoes Company”, 2017
Master of Art in Teaching: Nicole Schumacher “Classroom Website To Increase Parent And Student Communication And Understanding Within The Special Education World”, 2017
Master of Art in Teaching: Darren Sonenstahl “Google Site: Using Cornell Notes”, 2017
Master of Art in Teaching: Josh Alessio “Preparing Seventh Grade Math Students”, 2016
Master of Industrial Technology: William Clark “Applying Multiple Views Of A Bill Of Material To Reduce Cumulative Lead Time”, 2016
Master of Art in Teaching: Erin Piel “Developing A Curriculum Designed For A Blended Learning Model In A Middle School Classroom”, 2016
Master of Education: Changying Yan “The Development Of Social Competence In Early Education”, 2016
Honor thesis: Savanah Thompson “Creating A Business Plan For Thin Air Reflections”, 2015

8. Preparing students to present at the capital to speak to the legislators of MN poster presentations

9. Implementing the TAD Excellence Award for outstanding TAD students. The award is given to students since Sp 15.

10. Provide Advising for TADT students
I have advised the following students over the past years: 54 students in spring 21, 52 students in Fall 20, 35 students in summer 20, 49 students in Spring 20, 36 students in Fall 2019, 34 students in spring 2019, 32 students in fall 2018, and 35 students spring 2017