Community Service & Outreach

Community Service and Outreach (year to present)

  • 2012    SPE ANTEC Student Poster Judge, Orlando, FL – performed evaluation of projects and conducted relative  assessments of projects and interviewed students.        
  • 2011-2015    Faculty presenter at Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA – recruiting seminar for transfer students for Plastics Engineering undergraduate program.
  • 2011-2012    NH TechFest at Windham High School, Windham, NH – recruiting event for middle and high school students for Plastics Engineering.
  • 2011    Presenter at meeting for Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) at World Boston Event – invited by the Provost to meet with eight female professors and researchers from Brazil who visited Boston to learn about the current status of women and girls in science in the United States.  Meetings were organized with local universities and public and private sector partners encouraging the participation of women in science and technology.
  • 2010-2011    Faculty presenter for Girls Day in Engineering lab tour at UML by ~100 middle school girls from Lawrence school districts.
  • 2007-2011    Judge for Middlesex County Middle School Science Fair, Lowell. MA.
    •  served as a Judge of ~1,000, 7th to 12th grade student science projects.
    • Performed evaluation of projects and conducted relative assessments of projects and interviewed students.