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People in the Engineering Cognition Lab

Principal Investigator
	Shane Brown, P.E. Associate Professor, Engineering Education Read more about Prof. Brown's awards here.
Current Graduate Students
	Matt Barner (M.S. and Ph.D.) I am creating and measuring the vitality of a virtual community of practice as a platform for facilitating a group of engineering educators engaged in action research.
	Jorge Miranda (M.S.) My research entails investigating what engineers studied in college and how this relates to what they have done and what are doing in engineering practice.
	Jason Pascoe (M.S.) Modeling the social and cognitive engagement of engineering students in and out of the capstone design classroom.
	Edgar Castro (M.S.) My research involves a detailed investigation on how safety is being taught in transportation engineering schools across the country. From this research, needs and priorities regarding safety in transportation will be identified and potential solutions will be developed to surpass current education about safety.
	Keisha Villanueva (M.S.) The purpose of my research study is to learn how existing engineering programs evaluate and assess teaching across the country. During this study, I will be conducting interviews, collecting documents of current practices, and developing a summary document that identify the best practices to evaluate and assess teaching in engineering departments. A model will be developed that will more effectively evaluate teaching, classroom performance, and include formative assessment aspects that allow faculty to improve their teaching based on feedback.
Current Undergraduate Students
	Moises Valiente
	Lauren Wallace Lauren is an undergraduate student in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering. She is developing a literature review on situated cognition in engineering education.
Postdoctoral Researchers
	Nicole Pitterson Nicole joined the research team from Purdue University and is working on developing instruments to measure social and cognitive engagement in the classroom.
	Oai Ha Oai joined the research team from Utah State University and is working on data on practicing engineers understanding of engineering concepts.
Past Students and Postdocs
To read about our successful past students and postdocs, click here.