Dr Sarah Dart
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
QUT Academy of Learning & Teaching
Biography
Sarah is Strategic Lead for Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition within QUT’s Academy of Learning and Teaching (QALT) and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering. Immediately prior to this, Sarah lectured and unit coordinated large undergraduate mathematics and engineering units, while also providing student support through one-to-one consultations, drop-in sessions, workshops, and embedded resources as a STEM Educator in the Student Success Group.Sarah’s commitment to learning and teaching has been recognised by a number of awards. This includes citations from the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (2019) and Australian Awards for University Teaching (2020), the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award from the Australian Mathematical Society (2021), Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2019), and a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (2017).
Sarah’s background is in modelling and simulation, having completed her PhD investigating red blood cell shape and deformability from a numerical modelling perspective. Sarah’s current research interests are in engineering and maths education, educational technology, and academic development. Her most significant project to date has been investigating the impact of worked example videos as part of blended learning designs. Her YouTube channel, houses many of the video resources produced through this project.
(Updated January 2022)
Personal details
Positions
- Strategic Lead, Learning and Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
QUT Academy of Learning & Teaching
Keywords
Engineering Education, Mathematics Education, Learning Analytics, Learning & Teaching, Educational Technology, Academic Development, Higher Education
Discipline
Other Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma of Science (Mathematics) (University of Southern Qld)
- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education (Central Queensland University)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Senior Fellow and Associate Fellow (Indigenous), Higher Education Academy
- Executive Committee Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education
- Member, Australian Mathematical Society
- Associate Investigator, QUT Centre for Data Science
Teaching
Major Teaching Awards:
- Early Career Teaching Excellence Award | 2021 | Australian Mathematical Society
- Associate Fellowship (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy | 2020
- Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning | 2020 | Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), Universities Australia
- Citation for Early Career Contribution to Engineering Education | 2019 | Australasian Association for Engineering Education
- Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy | 2019
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy | 2017
- Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence | 2017 | Sessional Academic Category
- Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award (Team) | 2016
- Winner of Most Inspiring Practice Award | 2016 | Sessional Teaching & Reflection Showcase (STARS)
- Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award (Individual) | 2015
- Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy | 2015
History of Units Taught:
- MXB100 | Introductory Calculus & Algebra | (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer) 2018, 2019
- EGB113 | Energy in Engineering Systems | (Tutor) 2015
- EGB121 | Engineering Mechanics | (Tutor) 2015, (Lead Tutor) 2016, 2017
- ENB130 | Mechanical and Thermal Energy | (Tutor) 2011, 2012
- ENB150 | Engineering Design | (Tutor) 2010, 2012, 2014
- ENB211/EGB211 | Dynamics | (Tutor & Demonstrator) 2011, 2012, (Lead Tutor and/or Guest Lecturer) 2015, 2016, 2017 | (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer) 2019, 2020
- ENB221/EGB323 | Fluid Mechanics | (Demonstrator) 2012, (Tutor & Demonstrator) 2017
- ENB313 | Automatic Control Systems | (Tutor & Demonstrator) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
- EGH421 | Vibration & Control | (Blended Learning Resource Development) 2017
- EGH462 | Process Control | (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer) 2021
- BSB123 | Data Analysis | (Blended Learning Resource Development) 2018
Experience
Employment History:
- Strategic Lead of Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition / Senior Lecturer | Learning & Teaching Unit / School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, QUT | 2021 - Present
- Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition | Learning & Teaching Unit, QUT | 2020 - 2021
- STEM Educator / Lecturer in Mathematics & Engineering | Learning & Teaching Unit / Science & Engineering Faculty, QUT | 2018-2019
- Sessional Academic Success Advisor | Learning & Teaching Unit, QUT | 2016-2017
- Sessional Academic in Engineering | Science & Engineering Faculty, QUT | 2010-2012 & 2014-2017
- Graduate Well Engineer | BG Group | 2013-2014
Selected publications
- Dart S, Spratt B, (2020) Personalised emails in first-year mathematics: Exploring a scalable strategy for improving student experiences and outcomes, Student Success, 11 (2), pp. 1-12.
- Dart S, Cunningham-Nelson S, Dawes L, (2020) Understanding student perceptions of worked example videos through the technology acceptance model, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 28 (5), pp. 1278-1290.
- Dart S, Pickering E, Dawes L, (2020) Worked example videos for blended learning in undergraduate engineering, Advances in Engineering Education, 8 (2), pp. 1-22.
- Dart S, (2020) Khan-Style Video Engagement in Undergraduate Engineering: Influence of Video Duration, Content Type and Course, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2020).
- Dart S, Cunningham-Nelson S, (2020) Seventeen Years of Australasian Engineering Education Research: Trends from Textual Analysis, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2020).
- Dart S, (2019) Developing predictive models of student success in undergraduate engineering mathematics courses, 30th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2019): Educators Becoming Agents of Change: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate, pp. 221-227.
- Dart S, Blackmore K, Willey K, Gardner A, Jose S, Sharma R, Sloan T, Jolly L, (2019) Moving from crime and punishment to success and reward: Transitioning from technical to educational research, Proceedings of the 8th Research in Engineering Education Symposium, REES 2019: Volume 1, pp. 329-338.
- Barns S, Balanant M, Sauret E, Flower R, Saha S, Gu Y, (2017) Investigation of red blood cell mechanical properties using AFM indentation and coarse-grained particle method, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 16, pp. 1-21.
- Barns S, Pickering E, Dawes L, (2017) Worked example videos as a valuable blending learning resource in undergraduate engineering units, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2017), pp. 1093-1100.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sarah, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Abby Cathcart, Dr Henk Huijser