Our community of faculty scholars engage in interdisciplinary research that focuses on real world problems and lays the groundwork for the innovations of tomorrow that can improve the lives and the livelihood of people around the world. Their research generates the knowledge and understanding needed for a better society, and it strengthens our teaching mission by enriching our students' learning experience in and out of the classroom. We encourage you to further explore our featured undergraduate research work.
The 10 featured or most recent scholarship and patent listings are displayed for each faculty member listed below.
Paradise, Tawni
Journal Articles
- With Malle R Schilling, Jacob R. Grohs, Holly M. Matusovich , and Cheryl Carrico Cheryl Carrico 4, "Differentiating middle school students’ conceptions of engineering from interests in engineering," 2025.
- "An evaluation of an implementation of high school girls summer outreach camp converted to an online format (evaluation)," 2022.
- With Tahsin Chowdhury, Kirsten Davis, Homero Murzi, and Michelle Soledad, "Developing Global Competency Virtually: Student Experiences in a Global Program That Transitioned Online Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.," 2022.
- With Malle R Schilling, Jake Grohs, and Jordan L Landey, "Teacher experiences in a community-based rural partnership: Recognizing community assets," 2022.
- With Holly M Matusovich, Andrew L Gillen,, W Van Montfrans, Jacob R Grohs, and Cheryl Carrico, "Student outcomes from the collective design and delivery of culturally relevant engineering outreach curricula in rural and Appalachian middle schools," International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), 2021.
- "Supporting Parent Engagement at Home: Parent Perceptions of Important Knowledge in Educating their Children in Engineering Activities of Varying Structure," 2021.
- With Malle R. Schilling, Jacob R. Grohs, Holly M Matusovich, Cheryl Carrico, and Holly Larson Lesko, "Changes in Teacher Self-efficacy Through Engagement in an Engineering Professional Development Partnership," 2020.