Event Information

Title: “Designing the Future: Empowering K-12 Students to Find Their Passion in STEM”
Speaker: Roxanne Moore
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: MRDC 4211

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Join us on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, to hear Woodruff School graduate Roxanne More (MS ME '09, PhD ME '12) deliver a talk titled, “Designing the Future: Empowering K-12 Students to Find Their Passion in STEM." The ME Shaping the World Speaker Series is part of the Woodruff School Connections program.

Bio

Roxanne Moore is a Senior Research Engineer in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering as well as the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Her research interests lie at the intersection of systems engineering, design theory, and artificial intelligence, with applications in industry, policy, and education and a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion..  She has served as PI and co-PI for grants from multiple sponsors including the National Science Foundation and Amazon, Inc. In addition, her STEM outreach programs and curricula have impacted more than one hundred thousand K-12 students nationwide. She is the co-founder and director of Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize, a statewide invention competition, open to all students and teachers in Georgia. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2007, and her Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2009 and 2012.  She received the Georgia Tech Teaching Effectiveness Award in 2018.

Favorite Tech Memory: Tailgates and football games with the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA).

Contact Information

For questions, contact Courtney Sykes at courtney.sykes@me.gatech.edu.