Throughout her undergraduate and graduate career, Alka has received immeasurable support from amazing mentors and now she tries to be that support for underclassmen. Born and raised in India, Alka, moved to the US in 2016 to pursue her BS in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech. Students could expect practice, reflection, and collaboration!Īlka (she/her) is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. I want to see where student’s interests lie and showcase how these topics impact them. We have words and punctuations to build sentences to communicate our thoughts, the way we have operations and variables to build equations to uncover patterns we see in different fields. Learning a new language not only takes practice, but it also takes context. I believe that these topics are the language used to communicate how the world behaves around us. After reflecting as an instructor, the next steps include building a foundation. I believe incorporating inclusive learning practices starts with the instructor themselves, thinking “why am I teaching this the way I am? What are some implicit biases I have? What did it feel like when I couldn’t understand a topic, made a mistake, etc.?” This is important to build empathy with the students as we’re creating the curriculum and taking into account what they go through. When it comes to learning these topics, there has to be an understanding that not everyone has the same background, learning styles, passions, etc, and it is important to take that into consideration while teaching complex topics. Teaching Philosophy: As a person of many intersecting identities, I understand how being in these classes at Stanford, despite having loved math and science, impacted my learning. She is passionate about these topics and wants to ensure students get an opportunity to engage in it! Overall, she is happy to join the ACE family as a LCA in order to explore diversity and inclusion in STEM. She attributes her family and friends for her continued growth, holding them close to her core. Outside of this, she enjoys playing tennis, ping pong, and really any racket sport, watching and rewatching early episodes of Spongebob (will make at least reference per day), and singing along to any Beyoncè song. This year, she will be an Ethnic Theme Associate (ETA) for Zapata, the Lead Course Assistant for ACE, and the Regional Northern California Zone Chairperson for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). She spent her undergraduate years as an executive member of the Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (SBSE), a Patient Health Navigator for Cardinal Free Clinics, a student lead for Seeds of Change, a Residential Assistant (RA) for Ujamaa. She continued her research with this lab after participating in the Cardiovascular Institute undergraduate research program. Currently, she is doing research in the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab under Alison Marsden, where she focuses on using numerical methods to create patient specific models of the cardiovascular system. She’s done research as a ChEM-H scholar in Zhenan Bao’s lab working with flexible, skin like materials for diagnostics. Their academic interests include the intersections of medicine and engineering, particularly in cardiology. The Catalyst for Collaborative SolutionsĬeline Escarmant (any/all) is a current fifth year Coterminal Student earning their bachelor’s degree in Biomechanical Engineering and Masters’ in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.Technology Transfer/Technology Licensing.Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school).Stanford Data Science & Computation Complex. Stanford Engineering Reunion Weekend 2022.Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Council.Summer Opportunities in Engineering Research and Leadership (Summer First).Graduate school frequently asked questions.Stanford Engineering Research Introductions (SERIS).Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE).Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).Additional Calculus for Engineers (ACE).Stanford Summer Engineering Academy (SSEA).About the Equity and Inclusion Initiatives.
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