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Overview
Shaundra Bryant Daily is an American professor, author, engineering educator

and speaker. Since 2017 Daily has been an Associate professor of the practice in

the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. Some

of her most recent awards include the Technology, Instruction, Cognition and

Learning Early Career Research Award given by the American Education

Research Association.

Daily obtained educational qualifications from Florida State University, Florida

Agricultural Mechanical University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 2003 to 2010, Daily was a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute

of Technology. In 2011 Daily began working in Clemson University and while

there held the positions Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Interim Co2

Chair in the School of Computing. In 2015, Daily ceased working in Clemson

University and took on the role of Associate Professor and Program Director of

Digital Arts and Science in the University of Florida. While here, she also took on

the role of Program Director of Human Centred Computing. Daily again switched

place of work in 2017 and commenced work in Duke University where she holds

the positions Associate professor of the practice in the department of electrical

and computer engineering, Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer

Science and Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Daily has a number of sponsored research projects, most notably one concerning

Online Application to Support Inquiry-based Science (OASIS) Teaching in High

Density Computing Environments to the value of $749, 510. This research project

took place from 2009-2011.

Shaundra Daily also starred the PBS series ‘The Secret Life Of Scientists And

Engineers’. She featured in 5 episodes in 2011. The show aims to display the lives

of science and engineering professionals outside the work place.

Personal Life
Shaundra Daily was born in Alabama in the United States, and has had a keen

interest for science since she was a child. She describes her first science

experiment in her interview with National Science Foundation. The anecdotal

experiment involved a young Daily “trying to create a toothbrush which she could

put in her bathtub so that she could brush her teeth without holding it and also

take a bath.”. Daily recognizes her mother as her biggest role model as a

child as “there was no person that she would ever hesitate to help.”. Daily

credits part of her scientific thinking to the mentorship she received from MIT

scholar, Rosalind Picard. Piccard was Daily’s advisor during her postgraduate

research in MIT. Piccard’s influence meant Daily developed the ability to

challenge and enhance existing material in the scientific world. Daily’s

hobbies include tap dancing and listening to music genres such ads Christian Hip-

Hop, R&B and Country.

Career
Daily’s career has focused on Electrical and Computer Engineering. In particular,

she has worked extensively in the field of Educational Engineering. Since 2001

she has held major Academic positions in American universities. Presently, Daily

is an Associate professor of the practice in the department of electrical and

computer engineering at Duke University. Here she teaches various courses in

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Design and

Computational Methods. Her courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering

aim to provide students at Duke with core Electrical and Computer Engineering

principles such as linear circuitry, frequency representation and both

combinational and sequential logic. While the Computational Methods course

educates students in algorithmic analysis of engineering problems.

Daily is also recognised and respected amongst academics in the Electrical and

Computer Engineering field. Daily has 421 citations on google scholar. Her

research work concerns Educational Engineering, Machine Learning and social

outreach. From 2009-2011, Daily was senior personnel on the OASIS (Online

Application to Support Inquiry-based Science) Teaching in High Density

Computing Environments research project which was sponsored by the United

States Department of Education. This research dealt with training and aiding

teachers in delivering inquiry-based science classes. Daily also worked on

Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum (ICAC) and Incorporating

Technology into STEM Education Using XO Laptops. This research was

sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Her publication, “Teacher

Self-Efficacy and Usage: The case of the XO Laptop in Alabama” demonstrates

her role in the research. This research project involved building and testing

applications associated with the school curriculum. These applications were used

to study how one-computer-per-child can be implemented in such a way as to

support STEM learning and lead more urban children to STEM career paths.

This particular project illustrates Daily’s unequivocal passion for Educational

Engineering.

Daily’s technical Engineering contributions during her career are evident in the research

project, Virtual Environment Interactions: Exploring Grounded Embodied Pedagogy in

Support of Computational Thinking. She held the role of Principle Investigator for this

research project .This project aimed to develop a desktop-based virtual environment

in which students must program a three dimensional character with Child using XO Laptop. which they can later

interact (this environment builds on previous successes of similar programming environments, but utilised grounded embodied

pedagogical strategies) and conduct iterative design experiments to answer a set of research questions.

These were; how does an embodiment-centred curriculum support the development of computational thinking? How does an embodiment centred

curriculum support interest in STEM fields? and how to capitalise on the results of these experiments to iteratively refine the virtual

environment and curricular materials. The amount award to this research project was $368,732.00.

Awards and recognition
Daily is a well decorated Engineer and has received recognition for her work from both academic organisations and popular newspapers. Daily’s work on “Bridging

tech’s gender gap with dance” was addressed in popular newspaper USA Today. Articles on Daily’s work on infusing dance and engineering are present in Chicago Tribune, National Science Foundation, Medical Daily, Diverse Issues in Higher Education and The Journal. Below is an extensive list of articles recognising the significant social impact of Daily’s work. The impact of Daily’s work has also received a number of academic awards. Most recently, she received the Extraordinary Educator Award from Delta Alpha Pi, NuChapter in 2015.

This award recognises outstanding work which impacts those with disabilities and is associated with Clemson University. Daily also received her most notable award in 2015. This was the Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL) Early Career Research Award given by the American Education Research Association. The TICL award highlights the innovation of

young researchers in the intersection of Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning and acknowledges their achievements in their early careers. Daily’s other awards are illustrated below.