EASE Research Team
Working to encourage equity, ethics & career readiness via sports & STEAM.
Director and Founder
Leroy Long III, PhD
- Associate Professor, Engineering
- Grant Recipient, 2019 NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant Program & 2020 NSF Research Initiation Grant
- Interesting fact: I'm artistic and creative (drawing, writing poetry, etc.)
Student Alumni
Melanie Canfield
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2021
- Middle Blocker, Volleyball
- Dream job: Leading a team in designing the most sustainable form of renewable energy
Ruth Chungi
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2021
- College of Engineering Representative, Student Government Association
- Executive Board, African Student Association
- Interesting fact: I enjoy redesigning interior spaces and exploring new outdoor places.
Mahteme Desta
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2021
- Engineering Ambassador, Boeing
- Interesting fact: I love exploring new cuisine, enjoy traveling and am trilingual.
Sydney Ellis
- B.S. Human Factors, 2022
- Outside Hitter, Volleyball
- Dream job: Human factors professor who is able to create new human factors programs at other universities
McKenzie Jackson
- B.S. Civil Engineering, 2021
- Midfield, Lacrosse
- Dream job: Civil engineering firm involving construction
McKenna James
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2019
- Former Middle Blocker, Volleyball
- Systems Engineer (program: Fleet Ballistic Missile), Lockheed Martin
- Master's Student (program: Systems Engineering), University of Arizona
- Interesting fact: Moved 13 times & attended 3 high schools before college
Sydney Jones
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2023
- Forward, Basketball
- Dream job: Project manager over commercial airplanes at a company like Boeing
Claudia Morello
- B.S. Physics, 2018
- Doctoral Student, (program: Physics), Kansas State University
- Graduate Research Assistant in Condensed, Soft & Biological Matter Physics
- Dream job: Designing optics experiments at a national lab or optics company
Danielle Ogilvie
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2020
- Former Student-Athlete, Soccer
- Engineer, Accenture
- Interesting fact: Studied abroad as an undergraduate
Christian Pierre
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 2019
- Former Chapter President, NSBE
- Flight Test Engineer, Boeing
- Master's Student (program: Mechanical Engineering), University of Southern California
- Interesting fact: Fluent in three languages
Kobe Reese
- B.S. Human Factors, 2021
- Extra-curriculars: User experience design
- Dream job: User experience research and design
Olivia Roa
- B.S. Human Factors, 2020
- Former Libero, Volleyball
- Master's Student (program: Human Factors), ERAU
- Dream job: User experience designer for a company like Google
Faculty Research Affiliates
Sharnnia Artis, PhD
- Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Assessment Specialist
- DEI researcher, engineering education
Robert Bennett III, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Health, Exercise and Sport Studies
- Sport and Society Researcher; Historian
- Former D2 Student-Athlete
E Nicole Bronson, Ed.D.
- Program Consultant, New Teacher Center
- Former Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Central Florida
- International School Leader, Honduras & The United Arab Emirates
Jeff Brown, PhD
- Professor, Civil Engineering
- Senior Design Instructor
- Grant Recipient, 2020 NSF Research Initiation Grant
Morris Council III, PhD
- Associate Professor, College of Education
- UWG Faculty Athletic Rep.
- Athletic Scholarship Recipient, Former D1 Student-Athlete
Kelly J. Cross, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Diversity and Inclusion Researcher, Engineering Education
- Intersectionality & identity researcher
James Pembridge, PhD
- Professor, Engineering Fundamentals
- ERAU Faculty Athletic Rep.
- Grant Recipient, 2019 NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant Program
Robin Roberts, D.Mgt.
- Assistant Professor, Business
- Leadership & Organizational Development Researcher
- Grant Recipient, ERAU +UP Worldwide Grant
Lulu Sun, PhD
- Professor, Engineering Fundamentals
- Entrepreneurial Mindset Researcher, Engineering Education
- Engineering Graphics and Gamification Researcher
DeLean Tolbert, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
- Access and Equity Researcher, Engineering Education
- Engineering Design and Problem-solving Researcher
Research
ENGINEERING
Using More Frequent and Formative Assessment When Replicating the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education
- Paper Authors: Leroy Long III, Claudia Morello
- http://commons.erau.edu/publication/1296
All Publications
- Expanding the Boundaries of Ethical Reasoning and Professional Responsibility in Engineering Education Through Critical Narratives
- Brotherly Bond: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Analysis of Black Male Scholars
- Toward an antiracist engineering classroom for 2020 and beyond: A starter kit (JEE - Journal of Engineering Education, AEE - Advances in Engineering Education)
- Using More Frequent and Formative Assessment When Replicating the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education
- Using Active Learning and the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education to Cultivate Academic Success among First-Year Engineering Students
- Conversations about Diversity: Institutional Barriers for Underrepresented Engineering Students
- Institutional Barriers to Black and Latino Male Collegians’ Success in Engineering and Related STEM Fields
- Black Male "Buoyant Believers" in Engineering and EngineeringRelated Fields
- Lessons Learned from Successful Black Male "Buoyant Believers" in Engineering and Engineering-Related Fields
- How Undergraduates' Involvement Affects Sense of Belonging in Courses that Use Technology
- Investigating First-Year Engineering Students' Educational Technology Use and Academic Achievement: Development and Validation of an Assessment Tool
ARTS
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Integrating Creative Thinking and Innovation into a Graphical Communications Course
- Paper Authors: Leroy Long III, Lulu Sun
- https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1202/
All Publications
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Integrating Creative Thinking and Innovation into a Graphical Communications Course
- Instilling an Entrepreneurial Mindset in a New Generation of First-Year Engineering Students Through a Graphics Course Project
- Enhancing Engineering Students’ Communication Skills through a Team-Based Graphics Course Project
SPORTS
Undefeated - Black Collegiate Women in Volleyball and STEM
- Authors: DeLean Tolbert Smith, Leroy L. Long III, Aishwary Pawar
- https://peer.asee.org/undefeated-black-collegiate-women-in-volleyball-and-stem
Set and Spike: Mentoring a Student-Athlete in STEM for Undergraduate Engineering Education Research
- Authors: Leroy L. Long III, McKenna D. Gooch
- https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1523
Black Unicorns: STEM Access for Black Student-Athletes in Non-Revenue Sports
- Authors: Leroy L. Long III, Sharnnia Artis, Morris Council III
- 2021 Conference of CONECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity
- https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1535/
Life After Sports: Black Males Pursuing Engineering and Related STEM Fields
- Poster Authors: Leroy L. Long III, Robert A. Bennett III, Morris R. Council III, McKenna James
- 2019 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE)
- http://commons.erau.edu/publication/1370
Grants
- NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant Program 2019 - Career Readiness Challenge Report and Slides
- NCAA awards $100,000 in grants to 6 research teams
- NCAA Innovations in Research and Practice Grant Program 2019 Grant Recipient
Career Readiness Challenge (CRC) App - Promo Video
- Authors: Melanie Canfield, Sydney Jones, Christian Pierre, Olivia Roa
- https://youtu.be/hcyN1fs_SSU
Career Competencies: More than Students, More than Athletes
- Poster Authors: Melanie Canfield, Sydney Jones, Christian Pierre, Olivia Roa
- 2019 Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach Student Research Symposium (SRS)
- http://commons.erau.edu/db-srs/2019/poster/11
