's research interests include constructivist learning approaches, global education, experiential learning, and problem-based learning. He is enthusiastic about the contribution of innovative pedagogical approaches by working on various teaching and learning models in advancing engineering education practices.

Carolina. He is a USC Connect Faculty Fellow for Integrative Learning and former Bell South Teaching Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computing. He is the ASEE Campus Representative and a Director for the Graduate Studies Division. Dr. Pierce has experience and interest in the evaluation of critical thinking and deep learning of students when immersed in various active learning environments.

Benedict College, has been teaching undergraduate transportation, mathematics, statistics, and computer science courses at different levels. He has been involved in undergraduate research experiences programs since 2011.He has been working on risk analyses and intelligent transportation systems through the development of applications of statistical models on different systems such as traffic signals and freeway monitoring. He is also engaged in the modeling and quantifying of cyberattacks at transportation networks under the framework of connected and autonomous vehicles. He

is an avid teacher who believes everybody can learn, so far as they approach it with discipline and dedication.A trained engineer in the fields of chemical [Universidad de Oriente, Cuba] and environmental engineering [University of South Carolina, Columbia], Samuel is interested and focuses on Waste-to-Wealth Initiatives, where waste is reused or converted into usable resources through hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of waste biomass, thus, creating a sustainable environment, and the remediation of contaminated systems via Advance Oxidation Processes such as photocatalysis.His current research is on the conversion of waste biomass into nanocomposites for environmental and industrial applications. Samuel has been with Benedict College since the Fall Semester of 2004 and teaches both Environmental Science and Engineering courses