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Interview with Dr. Ryan Need, an assistant professor within the University of Florida Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Overview: This post is part of series of interviews with 23 scholars about their research process and path that will be conducted until the end of 2023. Dr. Ryan Need began their tenure-track position at the University of Florida in 2019, which meant that moved to a new location and were just establishing their research group as…
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Interview with Dr. Davis Ferriell, an instructor at the University of Kentucky for the first-year engineering program
Overview: As part of my journey to re-evaluate my own views of research and research process and identity as a researcher, I am undertaking the process of interviewing 25 researchers about their own research career paths, processes, etc. This is the second post in the series is an interview with Dr. William ‘Davis’ Ferriell. His…
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Interview with Dr. Megan Cordill, deputy director and senior scientist at the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Overview: This post is part of series of interviews with scholars about their research process and path. Dr. Megan Cordill is a well-known researcher in our shared field of mechanical deformation. We also completed our undergraduate degrees at the same institution and initially started within a shared research group. Currently the deputy director and senior…
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Protect your research time by drafting off other parents who already forged a path
I first came across the concept of drafting as high school track runner. It is a tactic where a runner conserves energy by running in the ‘wake’ of a runner slightly ahead of them. This process reduces the total energy expended to fight air resistance. [Clarification: I am pretty sure that at in my waddle…
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Choosing a paper planner that matched my needs as a researcher/spouse/mom
In 2017, I was using a digital calendar and a notepad for lists. While I was hitting some work goals, I felt like I was always completing things at the last minute and not turning out things at the quality I wanted. That meant more required revisions on my manuscripts that needed to be responded…
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The principle of childcare redundancy
Since my youngest child turned one in February this year (2022), I felt more ready to leave the house on a work trip and committed to attending my first in-person conference since 2019. I decided to submit a few a conference papers for the American Association of Engineering Education annual conference based on our work…