Engineering Education

Engineering Education is a multidisciplinary research area that explores how students learn engineering concepts, how educators teach them, and how educational practices and policies can be improved to foster better learning outcomes. It combines principles from engineering, education, psychology, and the social sciences to study and enhance the effectiveness of engineering instruction.

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Rohit Dua
Dr. Rohit Dua

Associate Teaching Professor

Research Interests

Engineering & K-12 Education, OURE

Kelvin Erickson
Dr. Kelvin Erickson

Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EE Undergraduate Coordinator

Research Interests

Control Systems, Factory Automation, Programmable Logic Controllers, Advanced Process Control

Theresa Odun-Ayo
Dr. Theresa Odun-Ayo

Director, Cooperative Engineering Program

Research Interests

STEM Education Pedagogy, K-12 STEM pipelines, social and gender issues in STEM, Institutional Research, Power systems stability, Smart grid.

Joe Stanley
Dr. Joe Stanley

Professor, Associate Chair, Academic Affairs and Computer Engineering Coordinator

Research Interests

Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Image and Signal Processing, Data Fusion, Machine and Deep Learning, Medical Informatics, Precollege STEM Education Outcomes.

Theresa Swift
Dr. Theresa Swift

Teaching Professor, Laboratory Coordinator

Research Interests

Engineering education

Steve Watkins
Dr. Steve E.Watkins

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering HKN & TBP Faculty Advisor

Research Interests

Smart Sensor Systems, fiber optics, UAV instrumentation, engineering education, and pre-college education

Robert Woodley
Dr. Robert Woodley

Associate Teaching Professor, Advising and Recruiting Specialist, CEC dean’s educator.

Research Interests

Computational intelligence; embedded systems; digital logic; control systems