Engineering Education Directory
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Robin Adams
Professor Emerita of Engineering Education
(765) 496-3267
Jeannete Aguilar
Senior Lecturer
Research: Modeling, control, and estimation of dynamic systems; Estimation and control of systems with friction phenomena
Brandon Allen
Research Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Anderson
Executive Director of Development, College of Engineering, Purdue for Life Foundation
(765) 494-0023
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Eesha Tur Razia Babar
Graduate Student
Ian Bardwell
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Michele Bassett
Administrative Assistant
Edward Berger
None
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
Distinguished Professor of Engineering; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-2552
Kyler Blowers
Assistant Professor of Practice, SOE
Advisor/Major Professor: Joyce Main and Matthew Ohland
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 of Engineering Education
Research: Adaptive expertise; Reasoning with mathematics and models; Conceptual change using simulations; Technology supported learning environments; Designing assessment for learning
(765) 496-3316
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Brenda Capobianco
Professor of Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Affiliated Faculty in Women's Studies; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-9635
Aristides Carrillo-Fernandez
Visiting Assistant Professor
(765) 496-3267
Jeffrey Chase
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Neha Choudhary
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek and William Oakes
Research: Dissertation proposal - "International Service Learning Partnerships: Motivations, Exceptions and Outcomes"
Samantha Current
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
David Czerwonky
EURO Graduate Professional
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Kirsten Davis
Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Global engineering programs; Experiential learning; Systems thinking; Professional skills development
Jennifer DeBoer
Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Research: International engineering education; Education and economic development; Educational technology; Online learning; Quantitative research methods
(765) 496-0195
Anne Delion
Lead Curriculum Developer, SCALE K-12
Jim Demien
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Kerrie Douglas
Associate Professor of Engineering Education
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; 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
Melissa Dyehouse
Research Associate Professor
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David Evenhouse
ENE Temporary Research
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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
Shumaiya Ferdoush
Lecturer
Elena Fine
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
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Beatriz Galarza Tohen
Lecturer
Allison Godwin
Adjunct Associate Professor
S. Selcen Guzey
Assistant Professor of Science Education, Departments. of Curriculum and Instruction and 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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Jennifer Heap
Project Manager, SCALE K-12
Justin Hess
Associate Professor of Engineering Education
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
Professor of Engineering Practice, School of Mechanical Engineering; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
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.
(765) 496-6051
Angela Hoover
Instructional Support Coordinator
(765) 496-0892
Morgan Hynes
Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering
Humanistic Engineering
Pre-college Engineering Education
Engineering Design
Humanistic Engineering
Pre-college Engineering Education
Engineering Design
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Udeme Idem
Graduate Student
Assad Iqbal
Visiting Assistant Professor
(765) 496-0193
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Leah Jamieson
Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-3653
Anne Jarrard
Lead First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Brent Jesiek
Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Historical and social studies of engineering, engineering education, and computing; Global engineering education; Engineering ethics and social responsibility.
(765) 496-1531
Isabel Jimenez-Useche
Assistant Head, First-Year Engineering Program
Research: How to better teach and learn engineering in multicultural educational environments
Lisa Jones
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
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Austin Kainoa Peters
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor/Major Professor: Alice Pawley and Stephanie Masta
Rachel Kelly
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Alison Kerr
Post Doctoral Research Associate
(765) 772-6475
Juyeon Kluin
Research Associate
(765) 588-3603
Daniel Koehl
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
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Patrick Lillis
Director of Development, School of Engineering Education
Jennifer Linvill
Assistant Professor, Technology Leadership & Innovation; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-8340
Russell Long
Managing Director, Midfield
(765) 496-9521
Michael Loui
Adjunct Professor
Research: Motivation and persistence in engineering students; Identity development and affective outcomes; Ethics in engineering and computing
Robert Loweth
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Alejandra Magana Deleon
Professor of Engineering Education; University Faculty Scholar, Computer and Information Technology
Joyce Main
Interim Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Student persistence and outcomes; advising and mentoring; women in science and engineering; global engineering; social stratification; higher education; education policy
(765) 496-6052
Stephanie Masta
Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
Research: Indigenous education; Brown and Black student experiences in educational settings; marginalization in engineering; qualitative research methods; autoethnography
Mac McFall
Senior Lecturer
Amirreza Mehrabi
Graduate Research Assistant; ENE Ph.D. Student; Master of Computer Engineering (AI and ML)
Advisor/Major Professor: Jason Morphew
Muhsin Menekse
Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Metacognition and its implications for learning; technology enhanced learning environments; mobile Learning Technologies with Natural Language Processing (NLP); students’ conceptual understanding in engineering and science; and verbal interactions in teams and other collaborative learning settings
Khairiyah Mohd Yusof
Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Managing change focusing on students' and instructors' transition towards learner centric environment; Faculty development on supporting scholarly practice; Course and instructional design for deep learning. problem-solving and conation; Cooperative Problem-based Learning and Project-Based Learning; Engineering Education from the global perspective
(765) 496-4303
Tamara Moore
Professor of Engineering Education, Purdue University Faculty Scholar
Research: How engineering and engineering thinking promote learning in K-12 mathematics and science classrooms/higher-ed 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
Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
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.
(765) 494-3887
Jeffrey Myers
Assistant Director of First-Year Engineering Academic Advising
(765) 494-9713
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Nimota Nasiru
Graduate Student
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William Oakes
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
150th Anniversary Professor
Professor, Engineering Education
150th Anniversary Professor
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
Director, First-Year Engineering Advising
(765) 494-9713
Matthew Ohland
Associate Head of Engineering Education; Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor of Engineering Education
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Katy Panozzo
Senior First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Alice Pawley
Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Qualitative empirical and critical analysis of U.S. engineering education institutions and organizations relating to gender, race, and other axes of power.
Christine Pekny
Senior Academic Advisor, ENE Undergraduate Program (Multidisciplinary Engineering and Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies)
(765) 494-7422
Heather Perkins
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
Mary Pilotte
Professor Emerita of Practice of Engineering Education
Research: engineering culture and professional practice; generational knowledge transfer; person-thing orientations in engineering; neurodiversity in engineering classrooms and practice.
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Kory Pritchett
Senior Instructional Support Coordinator
Senay Purzer
Associate Head of Graduate Programs; Professor of Engineering Education
Research: Research expertise on design reasoning fluency to promote engineering reasoning for sustainable, conscientious, and ethical design.
(765) 496-1684
Tina Putz
Graduate Program Manager
(765) 496-3704
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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
Research Scientist
(765) 494-0126
Fredy Rodriguez
ENE Temporary Research
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Lauren Seymour
Instructional Support Coordinator
Jeanine Shannon
Communications Director
(765) 337-7047
Mandy Simms
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Karl Smith
Professor Emeritus of Cooperative Learning
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
Rena Sterrett
Lead Project Manager, SCALE K-12
Brandon Stevens
Graduate Student
(765) 494-3750
Ruth Streveler
Professor Emerita of Engineering Education
Research: How students learn engineering; Difficult concepts in science and engineering
Student misconceptions; Conducting rigorous research in engineering education
Greg Strimel
Associate Professor & Assistant Dept. Head, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
(765) 494-7989
Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan
Professor of Engineering Practice
Research: Complex Problem Solving, Engineering Design, Academic Change Management, and Student-Centred Learning, especially focusing on Team-based, Project-based, and Problem-based Learning methodologies
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Robin Terwilliger
Executive Assistant to the Head
(765) 494-3884
Gabriella Torres
Graduate Student & Student Experience Program Lead, SCALE K-12
Advisor/Major Professor: Audeen Fentiman
Nicole Towner
Director of Operations, First-Year Engineering Program
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Sharra Vostral
Associate Professor of History; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
Research: Gender & Technology; Gender & medicine; Material Culture; 20th century US popular culture
(765) 494-4132
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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
Sharita Ware
Senior Instructional Support Coordinator
Andrew Watchorn
Graduate Student
Chad Watson
First-Year Engineering Academic Advisor
(765) 494-9713
Wendy Watson
UPRISE Program Coordinator, Lead Administrative Assistant
Ruth Wertz
Assistant Professor of Engineering Practice
Kathleen Wible
Continuing Term Lecturer
Tempess Williams
Scale Administrative Assistant, SCALE K-12
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Mohamad Zbib
Associate Professor of Engineering Practice
Research: Materials Engineering (microstructural characterization and development of structure-property correlations within diverse materials) and Engineering Education (course design and curriculum development)
(765) 496-9606
Tasha Zephirin
PhD Candidate
Advisor/Major Professor: Brent Jesiek
Research: "A role of a cultural engineering organization in the engineering education experience: A case study"
Carla Zoltowski
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education
Research: Professional formation of engineers; Diversity and inclusion in engineering; Design thinking and learning; Engineering ethics