Scott Lemos Jr

In my role as Senior Lecturer, my teaching focuses on equipping students with a foundational understanding of business and economics while fostering a deep appreciation for sustainable management principles. With almost a decade of experience teaching courses in business and economics, I strive to make complex economic and managerial concepts accessible and relevant, connecting theories to real-world applications that resonate with students’ experiences and future careers. For this, I rely heavily on case study methods to simulate real-world decision-making, guiding students through hands-on analysis of current environmental, economic, and social issues facing businesses today. This approach not only cultivates critical thinking and problem-solving skills but also encourages students to think holistically about the impacts of business decisions on communities and ecosystems. I incorporate innovative teaching methods such as collaborative projects, sustainability-based simulations, and flipped classroom models that encourage active learning and engagement with the material.

In my role as a Research Economist, my primary approach uses economic methods to examine challenges in environmental policy, with a particular focus on non-market valuation techniques. I apply this research in a variety of settings, including agricultural food systems and public drinking water systems. A secondary strand of research takes an experimental approach to better understand effective teaching methods, broadly falling into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (‘SoTL’) literature. Some examples of this work include (1) the development of scalable solutions for developing writing abilities in large sections of Principles of Economics and Introduction to Business courses and (2) techniques that can be used to mitigate problems associated with students' over-confidence in their abilities on both writing and math based assessments.