Our People

Specialty/Research Focus: Technical and Professional Communication, Engineering Ethics, Usability Studies, and Rhetorics of Health and Medicine

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications, Writing Pedagogy

Specialty/Research Focus: Neurodiversity; Disability Studies; Learning Sciences; Higher Education; Secondary Education; Out of School Learning; Design-Based Research; Motivation; Collaborative Research; Broadening Participation in STEM; Belonging; Inclusion; Intersectionality; Equity and Social Justice in Engineering and Computer Science Education.

Specialty/Research Focus: Effectiveness of pre-college computing education; Introductory programming education (CS1/CS2); Broadening participation in computing and gaming; Assessment in computing education; History of computing, computing education, and computer games

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications

Specialty/Research Focus: Epistemic thinking; interdisciplinary collaborations; researcher identity; epistemic cultures; faculty agency

Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering – bioimaging and image processing

Research Topics: Wastewater Treatment; Measurement and monitoring of pollutants

Specialty/Research Focus: Composition, Feminist and Critical Pedagogy, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Visual Culture Studies/Visual Rhetoric

Specialty/Research Focus: Introductory Engineering, Leadership in Engineering, Engineering Education

Specialty/Research Focus: Sense of belonging, Transition and Adaptation, Graduate education, Mixed-methods research, Synthesis research

Specialty/Research Focus: Black rhetorics, rhetorics of race, legal humanities, technical communication and social justice, hip hop studies, performance studies, post-Civil Rights American literature and culture.

Research Topics: Digital pedagogy; inclusive online learning; user experience; social media and the woman question; 20th Century post-modern Russian literature; travel narratives.

Specialty/Research Focus: Environmental justice education (environmental racism, community engagement, place-based learning, mental and health equity, and EJ Screen), Critical theories of race (critical race theory, critical race feminism, intersectionality, and Black epistemologies), Research methods (qualitative, ethnography, case study, phenomenology, meta-synthesis review), Social Justice (students, postdocs, and faculty of color, access, and marginalization), Identity (STEM identity, identity, and environmental influences), Pedagogies (culturally relevant, Black liberatory, and critical pedagogies). 

Research Topics: Technical and Engineering Communication; Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Specialty/Research Focus:: Curriculum design and innovation, problem-based learning, active learning, and problem solving in engineering education research

Specialty/Research Focus: Computational and applied mathematics, geophysical fluid dynamics

Specialty/Research Focus: Cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity and inclusion assessment, Data Science teaching and learning, social responsibility, social justice

Specialty/Research Focus: Design thinking, human-centered design and empathy, student agency, participatory and co-design, data visualization, community-oriented engineering, AI, agent architecture, and data mining, educational technology, case-based methods, and computational social science.

Specialty/Research Focus: Engineering design process and methods, undergraduate conceptual knowledge in engineering science courses, Learning Assistant programs, women and girls in engineering programs, epistemology, epistemological framing, productive disciplinary engagement, student discourse, and responsive teaching

Specialty/Research Focus: Introductory engineering, student-centered course design, teaching and student assistant training