Dr. Anthony Butterfield is a Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah, where he has taught for over a decade. As teaching faculty, Dr. Butterfield’s research has focused on engineering education, centering around project-based active learning and makerspaces, particularly as applied to first-year students; retention of underrepresented groups; and STEM community outreach and citizen scientist efforts. Dr. Butterfield has received multiple teaching awards from the department up to the national level, including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2017 Award for Innovation in Chemical Engineering Education and NOGLSTP’s GLBT Educator of the Year Award. Dr. Butterflied is the past-chair of the American Society of Engineering Educators’ Chemical Engineering Division. He is also the chair for the AIChE Societal Impact Operating Counsel, and the founding chair of AIChE’s LGBTQ+ & Allies Initiative.
Camilo A. Duarte-Cordon, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. His research focuses on using computational modeling to understand and predict the mechanical response of materials subjected to extreme loading conditions. Camilo obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He's originally from Colombia, receiving his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Colombia, in Bogota. He plans to pursue a career in academia where he can work on research in computational mechanics and engineering education, as well as on projects and initiatives to support underrepresented communities in STEM.
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