Shaundra Daily

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. Her most recent awards include the Technology, Instruction, Cognition and
Learning Early Career Research Award given by the American Education Research Association .
Daily has sponsored research projects for educational learning. The project titled Online Application to Support Inquiry-based Science (OASIS) 
Teaching in High-Density Computing Environments received $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 workplace .
=== Career ===
Daily received mentorship from MIT scholar, Rosalind Picard. Piccard was Daily’s advisor during her postgraduate research at MIT. Daily’s career has focused on Electrical and Computer Engineering. In particular, she has worked in the field of Educational Engineering. Since 2001, she has held 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. 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 . 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 . Daily’s other Engineering contributions are evident in the research project, Virtual Environment Interactions: Exploring Grounded Embodied Pedagogy in Support of Computational Thinking. She held the role of Principal Investigator for this
research project. .This project aimed to develop a desktop-based virtual environment
=== Awards and recognition ===
Daily has received recognition for her work from both academic organizations and popular newspapers. Daily’s work on the project titled Bridging tech’s gender gap with dance was addressed in the 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 recognizing the significant social impact of Daily’s work. 
JUN 2, 2016
1. The Journal:
Transforming Education
Through Technology
Students Learn Computer Programming
Skills Through Dance	NOV 3, 2014
La Nacion
Danza y programación pueden atraer niñas a
carreras informáticas
AUG 21, 2015 
South Carolina ETV
American Graduate Champion: Dr.
Shaundra Daily	NOV 3, 2014
Medical Daily
Female Students' Computer Skills Improve
With Dance Choreography
AUG 11, 2015 
Book Chapter
• Technology: Cool Women Who Code (Girls
in Science)	OCT 21, 2014 
Clemson Newsstand
Morph Than Meets the Eye
AUG 5, 2015 
Chicago Tribune
Digital Divas weave STEM into fashion and
dance challenges	OCT 3, 2014 
Atlanta Blackstar
7 Black Innovators and Inventors in STEM
Fields Who Blerds Should Know
DEC 1, 2014
ASEE Prism
STEM Education Shall We Dance?	OCT 9, 2013
Girl Scouts of the USA
Careers: Shaundra Daily
NOV 14, 2014
National Science Foundation
Computer scientist Shaundra Daily -
ScienceLives	JAN 13, 2013
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Dr. Shaundra B. Daily Works to Improve
Education with Technology
NOV 7, 2014 
NationSwell
Can Girls Dance Their Way Toward
Computer Programming Careers? Read
more: http://nationswell.com/dance-canincrease-girls-steminterest/#ixzz4sW6Gg1xs	
The Secret Life of Scientists:
Shaundra Daily
NOV 3, 2014
Science World Report
Dance Choreography May Improve
Computational Skills	NOV 3, 2014
Phys Org
Dance choreography improves girls'
computational skills
JAN 19, 2015 
USAToday
Bridging tech's gender gap with dance	MAY 1, 2014 
Clemson Newsstand
Clemson University to bring together art and
technology at Artisphere 2014
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 recognizes outstanding work which impacts those with disabilities and is associated with Clemson University. In 2015, she received the 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.
Extraordinary Educator Award - Delta
Alpha Pi. 2015	Fellow - Delta Airlines. 2003
Technology, Instruction, Cognition and
Learning Early Career Research Award -
American Education Research
Association. 2015	Sean A. Pittman Award for Outstanding
Service to the African American Community
- Florida State University. 2001
Emerging Scholar - Diverse Issues in Higher
Education. 2013
•	Member - Tau Beta Pi. 2000
Epsilon Award for Most Promising
Technologist - Black Data Processing
Association.2013	Torchbearer - National Society of Black
Engineers. 2000
Scholar - Clemson Institute for the
Advancement of Healthcare. 2012	Seminole Torchbearer -Florida State
University. 1998
Fellow - Samsung. 2007	Graduate Community Fellow for Women's
Initiatives - Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. 2006
Fellow - Stanford University LIFE
Center. 2007	
== References ==
== External Links ==
*Shaundra Daily on Linkedin
*Shaundra Daily at Duke University
Category:American professors
Category:American authors
Category:American writers
Category:American speakers
Category:Engineering educators