Engineering Education Directory
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Asem Aboelzahab
Graduate Student
Robin Adams
Professor
Research: Design thinking and learning; Interdisciplinary thinking (investigating what it means to work at the interface between disciplines); Design of interdisciplinary learning environments; Strategies for connecting research on learning and teaching practice
(765) 496-3267
Jeannete Aguilar
Continuing Lecturer
Research: Modeling, control, and estimation of dynamic systems; Estimation and control of systems with friction phenomena
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Chanel Beebe
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Monica Cardella
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Experiences and Learning of Community Partners in Community Engaged Design Settings"
Brianna Benedict
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Allison Godwin
Research: Dissertation proposal - "An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Engineering Programs as Hybrid Spaces in Engineering Education"
Edward Berger
Professor, Engineering Education
Research: Teaching with technology; Assessment of technology interventions; Non-cognitive factors and their role in student success; Discipline-based engineering education research
(765) 496-0193
Gary Bertoline
Dean, College of Technology
Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-2552
Virginia Booth Womack
Graduate Student; also Director of the Minority Engineering Program
Advisor/Major Professor: Alice Pawley and
Stephanie Masta (Zywicki)
(765) 494-3974
Sean Brophy
Associate Professor
Research: Adaptive expertise; Reasoning with mathematics and models; Conceptual change using simulations; Technology supported learning environments; Designing assessment for learning
(765) 496-3316
Paige Brown
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Allison Godwin
Research: Dissertation proposal - "The Preparation of Black Women Engineers for the Gendered and Racialized Culture of Engineering"
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Brenda Capobianco
Professor, Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Affiliated Faculty in Women's Studies; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-9635
Monica Cardella
Professor
Director, INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering
Director, INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering
Research: Engineering Learning in Informal Settings; Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering; Pre-college Engineering Education; Engineering Design
(765) 496-1206
Jeffrey Chase
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Neha Choudhary
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek and William Oakes
Research: Dissertation proposal - "International Service Learning Partnerships: Motivations, Exceptions and Outcomes"
Herman Clements
Graduate Student
Beverly Clendenen
Purchasing Clerk (Account Clerk IV)
Donovan Colquitt
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Monica Cardella
Research: Dissertation proposal - “Pursuit is Purpose: One Black Man's Persistence Through Engineering Education"
Monica Cox
Adjunct Associate Professor
(614) 247-8953
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Kirsten Davis
Assistant Professor, Engineering Education
Research: Global engineering programs; Experiential learning; Systems thinking; Professional skills development
Jennifer DeBoer
Associate Professor, Engineering Education
Research: International engineering education; Education and economic development; Educational technology; Online learning; Quantitative research methods
(765) 496-0195
Anne Delion
Instructional Support Coordinator
Kimberly Dixon
Assistant Director-Financial Affairs
(765) 496-6573
Kerrie Douglas
Assistant Professor
Research: Evaluation of open online engineering courses;
Rationale and evidence to justify assessment uses;
Fair assessment of minority groups in engineering;
Assessment as means of learning in engineering design contexts
(765) 494-6932
Nathalie Duval-Couetil
Professor, Department of Technology, Leadership and Innovation; Director, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program; Associate Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship
Research: Multidisciplinary entrepreneurship education;
Environments and conditions that foster entrepreneurial activity among students;
Educational program evaluation and assessment;
Women and leadership;
Market and technology assessment
(765) 494-7068
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Hossein Ebrahiminejad
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Matt Ohland
Research: Dissertation proposal - “The Effect of Curricular Pathways & Engineering Program Structures on Engineering Students’ First-Year To Second-Year Retention”
Sarah Ehrlich
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
David Evenhouse
Post Doc Research Associate
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Audeen Fentiman
Crowley Family Professor in Engineering Education
Research: First year engineering curriculum design;
Recruitment and retention of engineering students from underrepresented groups;
P-12 curriculum modification leading to greater interest in and better preparation for the study of engineering;
Graduate education reform;
Radioactive waste management;
Environmental risk assessment
(765) 494-7781
Tiago Forin
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Robin Adams
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Reflections and Global Engineering Experiences"
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Allison Godwin
Associate Professor, Engineering Education
Research: Identity development of diverse engineers;
Characterizing latent diversity (features of diversity outside of visible markers like students' underlying attitudes and mindsets);
Student interactions with peers in diverse teams;
How students at the intersections of multiple social identities (e.g., race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.) experience engineering culture and navigate their identities as engineers;
How non-cognitive factors (e.g., motivation, identity, etc.) impact student success;
Mixed methods research
S. Selcen Guzey
Assistant Professor of Science Education, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction and Dept. of Biological Sciences, Courtesy faculty of Engineering Education
Research: Integration of engineering into K-12 science classrooms;
Influences of integrated STEM education approaches on student achievement and interest;
Effective integrated STEM teaching approaches;
Life STEM Education
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Cindey Hays
Administrative Assistant to the Head
(765) 494-3884
Justin Hess
Assistant Professor
Research: Designing and implementing pedagogical methods to enhance engineering students’ ethical development, with a focus on ethical sensitivity, ethical reasoning, and care; Exploring the functional role of empathy in engineering design, ethics, and innovation; and Synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making
Eric Holloway
Senior Director of Industry Research, College of Engineering
Research: the professional formation of students and engineers for practice; the impacts of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students who interact with industry; the social and cultural contexts of engineering disciplines and research experiences; designing and implementing assessments of learning and professional development experiences.
Angela Hoover
Instructional Support Coordinator
(765) 496-0892
Morgan Hynes
Associate Professor
Research: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering;
Humanistic Engineering;
Pre-college Engineering Education;
Engineering Design
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Leah Jamieson
Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering
(765) 494-3653
Anne Jarrard
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Brent Jesiek
Professor
Research: Historical and social studies of engineering, engineering education, and computing; Global engineering education; Engineering ethics and social responsibility.
Isabel Jimenez-Useche
Assistant Head, First-Year Engineering Program
Research: How to better teach and learn engineering in multicultural educational environments
Beata Johnson
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Joyce Main
Research: Dissertation proposal - "The Influence of Engineering Students’ Extracurricular Involvement on Career Aspirations and Professional Development"
Saundra Johnson
Administrative Assistant
(765) 496-9523
Amanda Johnston
Post Doc Research Associate
Lisa Jones
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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Alison Kerr
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Melissa Kidwell
Sponsored Program Account Management
(765) 494-3885
Dayoung Kim
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek and Michael Loui
Research: Dissertation proposal - “Promoting Professional Socialization of Engineers: Focusing on Moral Personality with Cultural Influences”
Michael Klinker
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Juyeon Kluin
Research Associate
(765) 588-3603
Daniel Koehl
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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Yonghee Lee
Post Doc Research Associate
Russell Long
Managing Director, Midfield
Ruben Lopez
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Tamara Moore
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Unfolding the Engineering Thinking of Undergraduate Engineering Students"
Michael Loui
Visiting Professor
Research: Motivation and persistence in engineering students; Identity development and affective outcomes; Ethics in engineering and computing
Joseph Lyon
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Ruth Streveler and Alejandra Magana Deleon
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Characterizing computational thinking through the use of modeling and simulation activities within the engineering classroom"
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Alejandra Magana Deleon
Professor and University Faculty Scholar, Computer and Information Technology
and Engineering Education (by courtesy)
and Engineering Education (by courtesy)
Joyce Main
Associate Professor
Research: Student persistence and outcomes; advising and mentoring; women in science and engineering; global engineering; social stratification; higher education; education policy
(765) 496-6052
Justin Major
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Allison Godwin
Research: Dissertation proposal - "More than Income: Socioeconomic Inequality and the Engineering Pathways of Undergraduate, Low-Income Women of Color"
Jairo Marmolejos
Sponsored Program Account Management
(765) 494-0547
Joana Marques Melo
Visiting Assistant Professor
(765) 496-0195
Quintin Martin
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Kayla Maxey
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Morgan Hynes
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Understanding the Influence of faculty on Engineering Identity Formation of Undergraduate Engineers"
Loretta Mckinniss
Administrative Assistant
(765) 494-3331
Muhsin Menekse
Associate Professor
Research: Students' learning of complex tasks and concepts in engineering and science; Verbal interactions in collaborative learning settings (e.g., teams, small groups); Metacognition, reflection, and learning; Technology enhanced learning environments
Hillary Merzdorf
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Kerrie Douglas
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Sketching Skills Assessment in AI-Based Instruction"
Tamara Moore
Professor
Research: How engineering and engineering thinking promote learning in K-12 mathematics and science classrooms, as well as in higher-education engineering classrooms, through the paradigm of STEM integration. Support STEM integration pedagogies through curriculum development and teacher professional development. Mathematical modeling as a means for STEM integration.
(765) 496-9030
Jason Morphew
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research: Self-Regulated Learning and Metacognition; Embodied cognition and conceptual understanding in engineering and science; Educational technology and online learning; Assessment to enhance student learning.
Jeffrey Myers
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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Tuan (Harry) Nguyen
Student Media Producer
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Matthew Ohland
Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor in Engineering Education
(765) 496-1316
William Oakes
150th Anniversary Professor
Director, EPICS Program
Professor, Engineering Education
Director, EPICS Program
Professor, Engineering Education
Research: Service learning in engineering education; Impact of cognitive and non-cognitive variables on student persistence; Design in engineering education
(765) 494-3892
Curt Oechsle
Interim Director, First-Year Engineering Advising
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Katy Panozzo
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Christina Pantoja
Doctoral Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Joyce Main
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Leaving the Engineering Profession"
Alice Pawley
Professor
Research: gender and race in engineering education; feminist science and technology studies; underrepresented students and faculty in engineering; feminist theory; critical race theory; intersectionality theory; institutional structure and inequality; social justice in engineering and engineering education; broadening participation in engineering education
(765) 496-1209
Christine Pekny
Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs Advisor
(765) 494-7422
Heather Perkins
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Mary Pilotte
Director of Engineering Education Undergraduate Degree Programs
Research: engineering culture and professional practice; generational knowledge transfer; person-thing orientations in engineering; neurodiversity in engineering classrooms and practice.
Kory Pritchett
Instructional Support Coordinator
Senay Purzer
Professor
Research: Design education and assessment at the intersection of critical thinking and creative thinking.
(765) 496-1684
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Breejha Quezada
Graduate Student
Carlene Quirk
Administrative Assistant
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Donna Riley
Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education
David Radcliffe
Kamyar Haghighi Head and Epistemology Professor Emeritus of Engineering Education
Research: Interdisciplinary research methods in engineering education; Design thinking and engineering knowledge creation; Engineering design and design management in industry; Sustainable systems design; Professional formation of engineers in practice
(765) 494-3884
Dhinesh Radhakrishnan
Post Doctoral Research Associate
(765) 494-0126
(765) 494-7499
Fredy Rodriguez
Post Doctoral Research Associate - Edu
Hector Rodriguez
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Ruth Streveler and Allison Godwin
Research: Dissertation proposal - "A Collaborative Autoethnography of the Experiences of Engineering Students at the Intersection of Gay Latinx Male Identities"
Jacqueline Rohde
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Allison Godwin
Research: Dissertation proposal - "Master and alternative career narratives: Expectations for what “counts” as an engineering career and how career decisions are made"
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Elizabeth Sanders
Graduate Student
Karl Smith
Cooperative Learning Professor (Part-Time)
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Research: Building rigorous research capabilities in engineering education. The role of cooperation in learning and design. Teamwork. Project and knowledge management and leadership.
(612) 210-7915
Amy Stanley
Business Manager, Aero And Astro/Materia
Lazlo Stepback
Graduate Student
Ruth Streveler
Professor
Research: How students learn engineering; Difficult concepts in science and engineering
Student misconceptions; Conducting rigorous research in engineering education
(765) 496-9031
Alexander Struck Jannini
Graduate Student
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Tracy Thoennes
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Nathan Thomas
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Nicole Towner
Instructional Support Manager
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Sharra Vostral
Associate Professor Of History
Courtesy Faculty
Courtesy Faculty
Research: Gender & Technology; Gender & medicine; Material Culture; 20th century US popular culture
(765) 494-4132
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Teresa Walker
Director of Communications
(765) 494-9391
Phillip Wankat
Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Professor Emeritus of Engineering Education
Research: Improving engineering education and separation processes.
(765) 494-0814
Andrew Whitehead
Graduate Student
James Whitford
Instructional Support Coordinator
(765) 494-3977
Kathleen Wible
Continuing Term Lecturer
Taylor Williams
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Kerrie Douglas
Research: Dissertation proposal - "An Argument-Based Approach for Validating Undergraduate Engineers’ Assessment Profiles Identified Using Machine Learning"
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Tasha Zephirin
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek
Research: Dissertation proposal - "A role of a cultural engineering organization in the engineering education experience: A case study"
Carla Zoltowski
Asst Prof Of Engr Practice Of Ece
Research: Professional formation of engineers; Diversity and inclusion in engineering; Design thinking and learning; Engineering ethics
(765) 494-2382