KIM GARCIA Environmental science & engineering
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I'm an environmental engineer who has an extensive background in the water industry where I focused on drinking water and water quality issues related to sampling, analysis, monitoring, regulatory reporting, groundwater monitoring and remediation in contaminated areas where mining impacted water quality, routine monitoring and regulatory reporting was required.

As an expert in the water industry, my expertise includes experience working on the Wastewater side of the industry, and I worked as a an environmental engineer overseeing the Environmental Department for a 316 acre science and technology park which included a vast and varying load of tenants who had offices at the facility. The 316 acre facility included an industrial wastewater treatment plant which was being decommissioned, a wastewater treatment plant, a non-transient non-Community water system which required the development of a sampling program and monitoring plan for compliance with state and federal drinking water regulations. It was also classified as a zero waste facility where all wastewater was treated and reused on site for irrigation purposes. As part of this side of the environmental program, a wastewater treatment plant was in operation, and as the sites environmental engineer, I managed each of these areas and provided oversight to manage the overall effectiveness of treatment at the wastewater treatment plant. My overall objective was to manage the entire environmental program which included the development of a monitoring plan for the site's drinking water sytem, and included the installation of dedicated sampling stations for each monitoring location.

The experience that I have with regard to education spans literally the entire course of my career from inception at the community college level as a math and chemistry tutor to education at the water department and education in the private sector to employees on the utilization of programs and tools that were available to monitor Environmental projects and to coordinate assessments and the use of tools in providing updates on progress and remediation goals.

This is all in addition to the formal teaching experience I gained as a graduate research fellow in the GK-12 program and in the classroom at two local schools in the Tucson area: Tucson Independent School District and the Flowing Wells Independent School District where I took hands-on engineering projects representing my own areas of research at the University of Arizona into the STEM classrooms at these Public Schools.

Subjects

  • Environmental Science Beginner-Intermediate

  • Math Beginner-Intermediate

  • Basic Mathematics Beginner-Intermediate

  • Art & Crafts Beginner-Intermediate

  • Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) Intermediate

Experience

  • Content expert (Jul, 2013–Sep, 2013) at BASIS Tucson Primary
    As a Content expert, preparation of math and science curriculum for 2nd grade students at the primary school was developed, and used to teach each of the five class rotations. Routine development of assessments was required and the utilization of such tools were used to monitor student success and overall learning. This was also measured through the development and utilization of other assignments done in class and at home.

    Specific content for these five second grade classrooms was focused solely on basic math skills and fundamental science concepts including the scientific method and the basic rules of following procedures, making observations, and communicating results.
  • GK-12 Graduate Student Research Fellowship (Aug, 2011–May, 2013) at University of Arizona, USA, Tucson
    This National Science Foundation & University of Arizona Engineering Graduate Student Fellowship award was granted to select graduate students for the purpose of increasing communication skills of research assistants in the graduate program by teaching and assisting as student teachers in classrooms teaching STEM courses in schools within the local community from grades 6-12. Graduate research assistants in this program were tasked with bringing their engineering research projects into the classroom and teaching STEM classes and incorporating their research projects into the existing curriculum.

    The fundamental goal was to bring research from the University of Arizona into local classrooms and enhancing the existing stem course curriculum with Hands-On research projects that were currently being conducted and to also expand the graduate student researchers' communication skills by teaching their research to others having only a very basic knowledge of svience and math after the program had ended.

    As part of the project each graduate student was asked to develop curriculum based on the grade level they were selected to teach and create classroom materials that would enhance existing curriculum and incorporate individual research projects into the classroom. As part of this assignment different materials were developed to assess learning and to enhance participation and creative brainstorming to encourage innovative engineering solutions and ideas for hands on classroom projects and experiments based on STEM topics.

    Fundamental teaching skills were learned and utilized in the classroom to facilitate and encourage participation in classroom projects and discussions on topics being investigated. This included curriculum development, assessment preparation, and the development of assessment tools to gauge effectiveness of said curriculum and overall learning and comprehension by students.

Education

  • Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (Jan, 2010–May, 2013) from University of Arizona, USA, Tucson.
  • Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science (Jan, 2000–now) from University of Arizona, USA, Tucson.

Fee details

    US$35/hour (US$35/hour)

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