Engineering and Technology Education Doctoral Students
2020-2021
Dani Bates
Better understanding the influence and impact of online facilitated design challenges on young learners’ interest and self-confidence in STEM.
Chris Boakye
Investigating the role and impact of STEAM education in socio-economically disadvantage communities at the K-12 level. Investigates how STEAM education can serve as an impetus to help break generational poverty.
Teena Coats
Interested in research in informal learning, students with different needs, and first-year teacher experiences.
Mariam Elias
My research interest includes the influence of computational thinking through Makerspace activities on graduation rate in STEM disciplines.
Eric Hall
My research interests are in curriculum development, teacher professional development, and underrepresented populations in STEM, focused on mathematics and engineering.
The impacts of project-based learning on early childhood educators. The use of augmented reality in technology and engineering education.
John Howe
Investigating Digital Competence as a framework for evaluating the gap between student self-reported knowledge and empirically tested skills.
Dominick Manusos
My research interests include curriculum development in career and technical education and support systems for beginning teachers.
Megan Morin
My research interests are undergraduate research experiences (community college students, women, and URM populations), STEM programming, and K-20 engineering education.
Erik Schettig
Erik Schettig’s research interests include STEM curriculum development, spatial visualization skills, and utilizing informal learning environments.
Corey White
Corey’s interests revolve around the integration of robotics in mathematics instruction, specifically in effecting mathematics instruction among middle grades students.