Mark Onyango Email & Phone Number

Mark Onyango is a graduate assistant in the Department of Engineering and Computing Education (DECE) in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He earned his Master’s degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology’s School of Electronics and Information Engineering in Harbin, China and holds a Bachelor of Education (Electrical Technology Education) from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. I am extremely passionate about teaching and public information dissemination. Creating a safe, friendly and productive environment for my target audience to learn is my top priority. With a strong background in electrical engineering, I am a meticulous python programming-based data analyst with vast experience working with a variety of synthetic aperture radar datasets, arising from my two years postgraduate research studies as a Master of Engineering student. A Critical thinker continuously looking at ways of improving teacher-student engagement processes, I am adept in organizing work flow, creating lesson plans, presenting ideas in a compelling way, interacting with the learners and fellow trainers with a view to improving content delivery across a range of engineering topics in a learner-based and hands-on approach. As such, I maintain professional boundaries while building lasting relationships.My passion for teaching encompasses circuit analysis, electrical machines and digital electronics, courses delivered while working as an assistant lecturer in Kenya at The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology, as well as Head of Subject, Physics at Kenyatta High School. The combination of my teaching and data analysis skills earned me a position at a child and women rights community-based organization, Champions of Peace-Kisumu (CoP-K), as a capacity building coordinator, a precursor to my new action-research interest. My current work social science research centers on Underrepresented Minoritized Population (URMs) whose stories remain underrepresented within the wider Engineering Education Research spectrum. We aim to explicitly examine and uncover the structural and systemic forces behind it in an effort to advance solutions towards understanding the intersectional experiences in engineering to uproot and dismantle the practices that perpetuate inequitable outcomes in engineering education.