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: Sense of belonging, Inclusion in engineering, Graduate education, Diversity in students' citizenship, Faculty and peer interactions
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:: Curriculum design and innovation, problem-based learning, active learning, and problem solving in engineering education research
Specialty/Research Focus: Cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity and inclusion assessment, Data Science teaching and learning, social responsibility, social justice
Teaching Areas: Engineering education and Undergraduate engineering
Department of Engineering Education
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus: Agent architecture and AI, design research and design thinking, data visualization, critical studies, data mining, educational technology, case-based methods, research 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
Director, Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction
Department of Learning and Instruction
Graduate School of Education
Specialty/Research Focus: Curriculum and Instruction; Cultural Studies; Diversity; Digital Media and Learning; Curriculum and Instruction; Design Experiments; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Ethnography; Immigrant Issues; Race, Inequality, and Education; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods
Research Topics: Computer Science Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Information Science; Access and Equity; Assessment; Curriculum and Instruction; Digital Media and Learning; Design Experiments; Literacy; Educational technology; Race, Inequality, and Education; Learning Design; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context
Research Topics: STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media
Specialty/Research Focus: Engineering identity; social justice; equity with the goal of broadening ideas about who engineers are and what they do in order to empower students to tackle the big issues in today’s world through engineering
Specialty/Research Focus: Equity in engineering and science education; conceptual knowledge development and collaborative learning in undergraduate engineering education; collaborative decision-making, identity formation, and affect in PK-12 engineering education
