Speaking & Workshops
I speak at conferences, faculty workshops, and industry events on engineering education, program design, AI in the classroom, and the practical work of building experiential programs at scale. If you're organizing an event and one of these topics fits, get in touch.
Speaking Topics
How to design, fund, and scale new engineering education programs in three years or less. Lessons from the Mines Automotive Engineering Program (0 to 252 students) and the Shell GameChanger Accelerator at NREL ($6.3M, 30 portfolio companies).
Audience: Department heads, deans, program directors, foundation officers
Designing experiential, mastery-based engineering courses that work for hundreds of students and are sustainable for faculty. Drawn from MEGN 417/527 and MEGN 456 redesigns.
Audience: Engineering faculty, instructional designers, faculty developers
How AI tools can amplify (not replace) engineering pedagogy. Frameworks for AI as a learning partner, integration patterns for project-based courses, and what changes in classroom assessment when AI is in the room. (Flash talk delivered at Mines Generative AI Summit, Fall 2025.)
Audience: KEEN community, engineering faculty, ed-tech leaders
Lessons from advising 30+ Capstone teams over 8 semesters and serving on the Mines Capstone Leadership Team and Industry Partnership Board. How to source, scope, and run capstone projects that produce real outcomes for both students and industry sponsors.
Audience: Capstone coordinators, industry partnership offices, deans
Translating industry and federal R&D experience into engineering faculty practice. Building scholarly identity around applied work, leveraging industry relationships for funding and student opportunities, and navigating P&T as a teaching-track faculty member.
Audience: New faculty, postdocs considering teaching positions, faculty mentors
Co-founder of Method & Muse Spirits and director of the GCxN cleantech accelerator on what it actually takes to translate engineering work into ventures. Part case study, part practical workshop on opportunity recognition and value creation.
Audience: KEEN, KERN, engineering entrepreneurship programs, student innovators
Recent Venues & Conferences
Guest Lectures (Mines)
- MEGN 408 -- Spacecraft Subsystems (F23)
- MEGN 452 -- Introduction to Space Exploration (F25)
- HNRS 110 -- Leadership by Design (F24)
- MEGN 391 -- Automotive Design (F24, F25)
- EBGN 566 -- Technology Entrepreneurship (F24, guest judge)
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