Engineering Education Directory
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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
Jeffrey Anderson
Director of Development
(765) 494-0023
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Dianne Bell
Administrative Assistant - First-Year Engineering
(765) 494-3895
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
George Bodner
Arthur Kelly Distinguished Professor, Chemical Education
Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-5313
Carol Brock
Administrative Assistant
(765) 496-0467
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
Ahmed Butt
Graduate Student
Patrice Buzzanell
Distinguished Professor of Communication; Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Affiliated Faculty: Center for Families; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion (CRDI); Courtesy Faculty in Engineering Education
Affiliated Faculty: Center for Families; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion (CRDI); Courtesy Faculty in Engineering Education
(765) 494-3317
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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
Beverly Clendenen
Purchasing Clerk (Account Clerk IV)
Monica Cox
Adjunct Associate Professor
(614) 247-8953
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Jennifer DeBoer
Assistant 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
Heidi Diefes-Dux
Professor Of Engineering Education
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
Associate Professor of Technology, Leadership, and Innovation; Director, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program; Associate Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
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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Sarah Ehrlich
Academic Advisor
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Soheil Fatehiboroujeni
Postdoctoral Researcher
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
Jill Folkerts
Lecturer
(765) 496-6409
Ellen Foster
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Elizabeth Gajdzik
Assistant Director, INSPIRE
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek and Senay Purzer
(765) 494-9599
(765) 494-3974
Allison Godwin
Assistant 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
William Graziano
Professor of Psychology Sciences
Courtesy Faculty
Courtesy Faculty
(765) 494-7224
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
Lane Hooker
Temporary Clerical - Artisan/Fab Lab S
Jeffrey Huddleston
Artisan and Fabrication Lab Supervisor
Morgan Hynes
Associate Professor
Research: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering;
Humanistic Engineering;
Pre-college Engineering Education;
Engineering Design
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Billi Jennings
Director of First-Year Engineering Advising
(765) 494-9713
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
Associate 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
Saundra Johnson
Administrative Assistant
(765) 496-9523
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Melissa Kidwell
Sponsored Program Account Management
(765) 494-3885
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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Russell Long
Managing Director, Midfield
Michael Loui
Visiting Professor
Research: Motivation and persistence in engineering students; Identity development and affective outcomes; Ethics in engineering and computing
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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
Jairo Marmolejos
Sponsored Program Account Management
(765) 494-0547
Loretta Mckinniss
Administrative Assistant
(765) 494-3331
Muhsin Menekse
Assistant 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
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
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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Gaurav Nanda
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Matthew Ohland
Associate Head, Professor
(765) 496-1316
William Oakes
Professor, Engineering Education
Director of EPICS
Director of EPICS
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
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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Alice Pawley
Associate 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
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.
Senay Purzer
Associate Professor
Research: Design education and assessment at the intersection of critical thinking and creative thinking.
(765) 496-1684
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Carlene Quirk
Associate 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
(765) 494-0126
(765) 494-7499
Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Matilde Sanchez-Pena
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research: Institutional level research, aiming to progress engineering as a more diverse field through rigorous research on the advancement of women and other minorities at all levels of engineering. Knowledge level research, aiming to identify the evolving knowledge and skills the engineering practice requires, and find how to teach this knowledge effectively.
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
Theodore Sorg
Graduate Student
Rene Alexander Soto Perez
Graduate Student
Advisor/Major Professor: Ruth Streveler and Kerrie Douglas
Amy Stanley
Business Manager, Aero And Astro/Materia
Shelby Stinson
Secretary V
(765) 494-5755
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
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Tracy Thoennes
Academic Advisor
Nathan Thomas
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
Nicole Towner
Instructional Support Manager
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Jessica Valley
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
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
Yanbing Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
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
Dennis Warner
Visiting Professor
James Whitford
Instructional Support Coordinator
(765) 494-3977
Kathleen Wible
Continuing Term Lecturer
Richard Womack
Instructional Support Specialist
(765) 494-7733
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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