Research Projects

Terrestrial fate & transport of LDPE type plastics:

This research aims to understand the effect of weathering and mechanical abrasion on fragmentation of LDPE plastic types from macro-plastics to micro-plastics.

Students performing experiments in a lab and out in a field.

Community Capacity & Resiliency:

This research aims to understand how the Capacity Factor Analysis (CFA) model can be adapted from community level to family and personal level.

Graph of how interconnected a community is

Collaborative Research:

This collaborative, tri-campus researchaims to assess the engineering students’ cultural wealth at:University of Colorado Boulder, James Madison University and Angelo State University. Findings from this research will tremendously assist educators in designing asset-based curriculum changes to achieve newly desired studentoutcomes such as sustainability performance or environmental justice.

Previous research projects