research overview Actual student interaction with hardware, versus purely digital content, is a pedagogical opportunity unique to brick and mortar universities. I develop new hardware and project based pedagogy for maximal student learning gains.
selected publications conference proceeding Experimental Investigation of Continuous Magnesium Production by Carbothermal Reduction. Minerals, Metals and Materials Series. 199-202. 2017 Evidence of an Observer Effect Predicted in High-Flux Solar Simulators, but not High-Flux Solar Furnaces 2017 journal article Reversible Molten Catalytic Methane Cracking Applied to Commercial Solar-Thermal Receivers. Energies. 2020 A Framework to Guide the Instruction of Industrial Programmable Logic Controllers in Undergraduate Engineering Education. Education for Chemical Engineers. 76-84. 2020 Investigation of continuous carbothermal reduction of magnesia by magnesium vapor condensation onto a moving bed of solid particles. Powder Technology. 2-11. 2020 Nowcasting, predictive control, and feedback control for temperature regulation in a novel hybrid solar-electric reactor for continuous solar-thermal chemical processing. Solar Energy. 474-488. 2018 Design and Fabrication of Pellets for Magnesium Production by Carbothermal Reduction. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B: Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science. 2209-2218. 2018 A Common Pathway of Root Growth Control and Response to CLE Peptides Through Two Receptor Kinases in Arabidopsis. Genetics: a periodical record of investigations bearing on heredity and variation. 687-704. 2018 Experimental evidence of an observer effect in high-flux solar simulators. Solar Energy. 889-897. 2017 Enhancing the Rate of Magnesium Oxide Carbothermal Reduction by Catalysis, Milling, and Vacuum Operation. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 13602-13609. 2017 A novel experimental method to study metal vapor condensation/oxidation: Mg in CO and CO2 at reduced pressures. Solar Energy. 389-397. 2016 Pressure dependent kinetics of magnesium oxide carbothermal reduction. Thermochimica Acta. 23-32. 2016 Worst-case losses from a cylindrical calorimeter for solar simulator calibration. Optics Express. A1309-A1323. 2015 Intragenic Suppression of a Trafficking-Defective Brassinosteroid Receptor Mutant in Arabidopsis. Genetics: a periodical record of investigations bearing on heredity and variation. 1283-U231. 2010 Coordination of the maize transcriptome by a conserved circadian clock. BMC Plant Biology. 2010 Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon. Nature. 763-768. 2010
education and training Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2018 B.S., University of Texas at Austin 2013 M.S., University of California-Berkeley 2009