EESD Students and Alumni
Current Students
Rohini Abhyankar
Focus:
- Acculturation dynamics and outcomes in engineering workplaces
- Faculty development: Risk-taking and additive innovation
- Professional pathways for graduating engineers: Socializer influence
Hadi Ali
Focus:
- Adaptability, risk-taking and value-making
- Future of work and curricular innovation as complex adaptive systems
- Data, systems and society
Ieshya Anderson
Focus:
- Exploring culturally responsive education in STEM
- Participatory engineering
- Curricular design and instructional strategies for engineering education
- Perceptions of engineering in communities
Caroline Clay
Focus:
- Innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- STEM education policy
Michael Greene
Focus:
- Broadening participation in engineering
- Black engineering graduate student experience
- Novel instructional strategies/pedagogy
Jemal Halkiyo
Focus:
- Exploring barriers to quality international engineering education
- Theory to practice disconnect in engineering teaching and learning in Ethiopia
- Diversifying engineering education in Ethiopia, specifically gender diversity
Madeleine Jennings
Madeleine Jennings
Focus:
- Critical theory in engineering education
- LGBTQIA+ engineers and engineering students
- Human systems engineering
- General education research
Javeed Kittur
Javeed Kittur
Focus:
- Persistence of students in online undergraduate engineering courses
- Data analytics in engineering education
- Engagement of novice engineering education researchers in conducting engineering education research
- Engineering faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning
Cecilia La Place
Cecilia La Place
Focus:
- Hackathons
- Lifelong learning
- Self-regulated learning
- Knowledge Transfer
- Diversity and Inclusion in STEAM
Yue Liu
Christopher Mar
Susan Sajadi
Focus:
- Adaptability of the engineering workforce
- Broadening participation in engineering through diversity, equity and inclusion
Shivani Sakri
Focus:
- Experiences of women doctoral students in STEM environments
- Marginalized experiences of Women of Color within engineering
- Imposter Syndrome and its effects on the mental health of graduate students
- Mental health within graduate engineering student
Bala Vignesh Sundaram
Bala Vignesh Sundaram
Focus:
- Teacher empathy within the field of engineering education
Thien Ta
Katreena Thomas
Katreena Thomas
Focus:
- Broadening participation in engineering, engineering leadership, and graduate student experiences in engineering
- Read more about Thomas’s goals to make engineering more diverse and inclusive
Amy Trowbridge
Focus:
- Curricular and co-curricular experiences to broaden and enhance student perspectives
- Grand Challenge Scholars Program
Amy.Trowbridge@asu.edu
(480) 965-4830
Zhen Zhao
Focus:
- Engineering graduate student professional skills development, specifically the interconnection between leadership and mentorship
- Evaluation of engineering education and outreach program processes, outcomes and impacts
- Engineering graduate student attrition
Alumni
Wen Huang
Wen Huang
Postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University – Simmons School of Education and Human Development
Focus:
- Multimodal learning
- Embodied cognition
- Advanced pedagogy in education, particularly in STEM education
“ASU’s EESD program is the place where I started my research dream. Thanks to the faculty, course instruction and research guidance for helping me find my research interests and conduct meaningful studies during my PhD education. In general, I have formed two research directions: the pedagogy of engineering course instruction and the interactive learning environment. I will explore the potential of integrating the interactive learning environment into the engineering/STEM course instruction during my post-doctoral period.”
Mark Huerta
Mark Huerta
Lecturer
Focus:
- Human-centered design
- Sustainability
- Global Development
“Through the EESD program I was able to connect with outstanding faculty that are passionate about improving engineering education. I developed a systems-level view of engineering education and learned the best practices for conducting effective research within the field. The EESD program also helped shape my teaching perspective and prepared me well to be a successful faculty member.”
Eunsil Lee
Eunsil Lee
Postdoctoral Associate at Florida International University (School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education/STEM Transformation Institute)
Focus:
- Engineering doctoral education
- Diversity in Citizenship
- Inclusion & Sense of belonging
“Every experience in the EESD program was learning that prepared me as an educator and researcher in engineering education. I learned how to conduct research while being involved in the rigorous research processes within the community of faculty and peers who respect and value different perspectives. I learned how to teach and mentor students through my first-hand experience of being supported by my advisors and other faculty members in the EESD program who truly care about their students. And now, I am witnessing how my learning in the EESD community is translating into practice in my current position – Thank you, EESD!”
Michael Sheppard
Michael Sheppard
Quality Engineer at Certa Scienta Consulting
Engineering instructor
Focus:
- Multidisciplinary engineering curriculum design
- Strengths-based research
- Military veterans in engineering
- Transitions of survivors of trauma
“Never have I felt more supported in my academic pursuits than during my time as a student of the engineering education systems and design program at ASU. The faculty fostered my development as a researcher of engineering education and adjacent fields such as healthcare, quality and social justice. Through my studies and experiences, I have gained a better understanding of research-based teaching practices which continue to inform my decisions as a practitioner of engineering instruction and operational efficiency in industry.”
