Research Team
Dave Kim
Dr. Dave (Dae-wook) Kim teaches materials, design and manufacturing related courses at Washington State University-Vancouver. His current research efforts have included manufacturing process development of hybrid composites, fatigue enhancement of automotive/aerospace structures, and mechanical property improvement of marine composite structures. His research projects (~$1 million) have been sponsored by numerous agencies such as National Science Foundation, City of Portland, Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation, US Army Research Lab., NSF I/UCRC Advanced Cutting Technology, SME Education Foundation, and M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, as well as industries including Boeing Co., Phygen Coatings Inc., and Fatigue Technology-a PCC Co. More than 150 technical publications have been authored or co-authored by Dr. Kim in the areas of composites, design, and manufacturing. Dr. Kim has been very active serving in professional communities. He is a past chair of the Manufacturing Division at American Society of Engineering Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Portland Chapter. Away from the office, Dave enjoys traveling, working out, and watching sports/movies. He is married with two happy children.
Wendy Olson
Broadly conceived, my research interests center on how discourse operates in society and culture. I am most interested in the role rhetoric plays in both creating and mediating discourse as a meaning making process—that is as both epistemic and persuasive in character. Important in such cultural analyses is an understanding of not only rhetoric, but also the interrelations between the rhetorical and the material, an acknowledgment of the means by which rhetoric as meaning making is formed at the intersections of political, socio-cultural, historical, and economic conditions. Therefore, my theoretical approach often relies on political economy as well as rhetorical theory as a framework for developing analysis. More narrowly defined, my scholarship addresses two complementary and interdisciplinary areas of study: political economies of literacy and feminist rhetoric in contemporary popular culture.
Praveen Sekhar
Praveen Sekhar received his BE degree (distinction) in electrical and electronics engineering from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 2001, his MS degree in Microelectronics from the University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, USA in 2005; and his PhD in electrical engineering from USF, Tampa, Florida, USA in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sensors and Electrochemical Devices group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM before joining Washington State University Vancouver. His current research interests are in the areas of micro and nanoengineered surfaces for sensing applications addressing energy security, National security and point-of-care diagnostics. Praveen was the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award and is a panelist reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Project Consultant
Bill Condon
Bill Condon is currently Professor of English at Washington State University. He has been a Writing Program Administrator at a wide variety of institutions—the University of Oklahoma, Arkansas Tech University, the University of Michigan, and Washington State University. He is the English Leader of a state-wide College Readiness Project, organized by Washington’s Higher Education Coordinating Board and Co-PI on a Spencer Foundation grant to trace the effects of faculty development into student learning outcomes. He was Principal Investigator of a three-year FIPSE grant devoted to faculty development and statewide accountability assessment around teaching critical thinking.
Project Evaluator
Olusola Adescope
Sola Adesope’s research is at the intersection of educational psychology, learning sciences, instructional design and technology. His recent research focuses on the cognitive and pedagogical underpinnings of learning with computer-based multimedia resources; knowledge representation through interactive concept maps & diagrams, meta-analysis of empirical research, evaluation of learning objects, and investigation of instructional principles and assessments in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) domains.
Project Participants
Jill Darley-Varnis
English, Clark College
Carol Hsu
Engineering, Clark College
Jonghoon Kim
Mechanical Engineering, WSU Vancouver
Meagan Lobnitz
English, WSU Vancouver
John Lynch
Electrical Engineering, WSU Vancouver
Graduate Research Assistants
Matt Frye
English, WSU Pullman
Narayan Kripa Sundararajan
Education WSU Pullman
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Greg Brandelli
Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate
Colin Campbell
Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate
Arnold Castro
Computer Science, Undergraduate
Steve Delay
English, Undergraduate
Kaddijja Dumbuya
Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate
Amanda Flynn
English, Undergraduate
Tyler Hickey
English, Undergraduate
Jake Jones
Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate
Zack Moore
Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate
Ellen Najera-Hohlbein
English, Undergraduate
Ciara Seppala
English, Undergraduate
Kevin Wandro
Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate