Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching Experience

INSTRUCTOR | Gateways to Graduate School: Navigating Research Programs, Applications, and Funding (AGR 490)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN—August 2024 to December 2024

Developed the curriculum for and co-instructed a new 1 credit course designed to aid 23 senior level undergraduate students with their graduate school application materials and prepare them for graduate education

Gateways to Graduate School

Certificate of Foundations in College Teaching | Center for Instructional Excellence

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—October 2024

Part of the College Teaching Development Program at Purdue University West Lafayette, the Foundations Certificate Program provides an overview of evidence-based teaching practices and strategies

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for Chemistry for Engineers (CHEM 116)

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—January 2020 to May 2020

Worked as a “Tech TA” to aid in the transition to campus-wide iPad use for freshman chemistry in fall of 2020
Mentored 40+ students in the lab for first year chemistry for engineers
Prepared recitation presentations weekly and adapted the instruction to be online after the COVID-19 onset
Hosted weekly office hours in person and online to aid in student development and understanding of concepts
Introduced and monitored weekly experiments for two sections, teaching proper chemistry techniques and safety
Hosted review and test preparation sessions open to all students prior to proctoring exams

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for Air Pollution Control I (EENV 443)

Montana Technological University, Butte, MT—January 2019 to May 2019

Worked as a teaching assistant for an upper division undergraduate environmental engineering course
Aided in classroom grading, mentoring, and exam proctoring when needed

Mentoring Experience

Purdue Engineering GradTrack Mentor

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—August 2022 to April 2023

Served as a mentor for a group of underrepresented undergraduate students from institutions across the United States to demystify the graduate school admissions process and prepare application materials

GradTrack Profile

Student Researchers Mentored

Janine Mahoski

Chemistry Undergraduate Research Associate, Purdue University, 2021-2022

Now: Chemistry Intern at National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ashton Cummings

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research Associate, Montana Technological University, 2018-2019

Now: Staff Engineer at Woodard & Curran | PhD Student at Oregon State University

Autumn Lineback

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research Associate, Montana Technological University, 2017-2018

Now: Environmental Technician at Coeur Alaska – Kensington Gold Mine

ACS 2019, San Diego

Future Faculty Training

SSMN Boot Camp 2024, New Orleans, LA

Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) Future Faculty Boot Camp

Academic Job Market & Future Faculty Boot Camp

New Orleans, LA | Fall 2024

Notre Dame FFW 2024, South Bend, IN

Notre Dame College of Engineering Future Faculty Workshop

Notre Dame College of Engineering

South Bend, IN | May 2024

ITM 2024, New Orleans, LA

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

New Orleans, LA |October 2024

Tampa, FL | October 2023

Atlanta, GA | October 2022

This invited workshop is the largest gathering of underrepresented and minority doctoral scholars in the United States
Attended workshop sessions geared toward faculty preparation and the current education literature
Served as a panelist for the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring Sloan Scholar Orientation

NextProf 2023, Atlanta, GA

NextProf Nexus Future Faculty Workshop

NextProf through Georgia Tech College of Engineering, co-hosted by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the University of California – Berkeley College of Engineering

Atlanta, GA | August 2023

Preparing Future Faculty Course

GRAD 590 | Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

West Lafayette, IN | August 2023 - December 2023

Professional Development

Research Conferences

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Environmental Sciences: Water

- Holderness, NH | June 2024

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference

- Denver, CO | October 2017
- Phoenix, AZ | October 2021
- Palm Springs, CA | October 2022
- Spokane, WA | October 2023

The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference – Engineering at the Confluence

- St. Louis, MO | June 2022

American Chemical Society (ACS) National Conference

- San Diego, CA | March 2019
- San Diego, CA | March 2022

Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Student Research Symposium

- Bozeman, MT | April 2016

Professional Development Conferences and Workshops

American Chemical Society (ACS) Leadership Institute

- Houston, TX | January 2025

Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) Fall Classic

- Phoenix, AZ | October 2024

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Conference of Ford Fellows – Fellowship Forever: Lifting our Voices for Knowledge, Equity, and Change