Elizabethtown College School of Engineering, Math, and Computer Science (EMCS) faculty members have recently presented research at several notable conferences.
Dean of Engineering, Math, and Computer Science Sara Atwood presented two peer-reviewed papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in Minneapolis, Minn. in June. Both papers, “Internships’ Impact on Recognition for First-Generation and/or Low-Income Engineering Students” and “The effects of gender, race, and intersectional identities on the engineering professional identity of upper-year engineering students,” were part of Atwood’s National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research on the impact of internship experiences on first-generation, low-income students’ identities as professional engineers.
Four professors in the Department of Engineering and Physics – Jean Batista Abreu, Kurt DeGoede, Brenda Read-Daily, and Tomás Estrada – co-authored, published, and presented two conference papers at the 2022 Annual Conference of the ASEE. The papers focused on the department’s entrepreneurial model for capstone projects.
Batista and Estrada each presented one of the papers, “From Problem to Project: An Entrepreneurial Model for a Three-Semester Multidisciplinary Capstone Sequence” and “Implementation of Industry-Inspired Project Management Elements in an Entrepreneurial Capstone Sequence.”
Professor of Physics Mark Stuckey gave an invited talk at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna on April 25. Stuckey was invited to discuss his paper, “No Preferred Reference Frame at the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics,” which he co-authored with Professor of Mathematics Timothy McDevitt, and Professor of Philosophy
Silberstein in Entropy 24(1), 12 (2022).
Associate Professor of Engineering Tomás Estrada was a guest speaker for All Star Code, a program for young men of color. Estrada ran a session on the topic of “Mindfulness and Performance,” where he introduced students to basic techniques in mindfulness and discussed the ways it could positively impact their life.
Associate Professor of Engineering Brenda Read-Daily and alumna Morgan Sommers ’21 presented “Environmental Engineering Outreach in High School Advanced Placement Chemistry Classes” at the 2022 Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference on June 30 at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Peilong Li will be presenting his co-authored paper, “Weakly Supervised Learning for Network Traffic Classification” at the 16th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2022) in Philadelphia on Oct. 3-4. Regarded as one of the top-tier IEEE conferences in the interdisciplinary field of computer networking, architecture, and storage, Li will be presenting the paper as a co-author and the communication author.
“I’m proud that so many of our Etown faculty are invited to present at the most prestigious conferences and research groups in their fields,” Atwood said. “With our innovative teaching practices and cutting-edge research solving real-world problems, it’s gratifying to see our contributions valued in the larger communities of interest.”
