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David Cereceda

Dr. David Cereceda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University since the fall of 2017. His research activities focus on breaking the ground for the Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Machine Learning (M⁴L) Lab, and he is also passionate about excellence in teaching. Dr. Cereceda earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. During his doctoral studies, he conducted his research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles.

  1. Top Hat in Action: High Expectations from Engineers

    David Cereceda is Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, near Philadelphia, PA. Here, he shares how including interactive questions as part of an active learning strategy helped satisfy a demanding student audience

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