Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research by Cambridge University Press

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contributors Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. E-mail: lmcnair@vt.edu. DEVLIN MONTFORT is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include the theoretical, methodological, and philosophical peculiarities of conceptual change and personal epistemology in the context of engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Washington State University. E-mail: devlin.montfort@oregonstate.edu. BARBARA M. MOSKAL is a professor in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Director of the Trefny Institute of Educational Innovation at the Colorado School of Mines. She is a senior editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research interests include educational outreach, gender issues in engineering, and educational assessment. She has been involved in educational research in engineering for more than fifteen years. E-mail: bmoskal@mines.edu. NANCY J. NERSESSIAN is Regents’ Professor of Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the creative research practices of scientists and engineers, especially how model-based reasoning leads to fundamentally novel insights and how interdisciplinary engineering sciences research laboratories foster and sustain creative practices and learning. She is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and AAAS. Her book, Creating Scientific Concepts (2008), received the inaugural Patrick Suppes Award in Philosophy from the American Philosophical Society. E-mail: nancyn@cc.gatech .edu; www.cc.gatech.edu/∼nersessian. WENDY C. NEWSTETTER is the Director of Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as well as the Director of Learning Sciences Research in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests include interdisciplinary cognition and learning, modelbased approaches to reasoning and problemsolving, and the design of rich learning environments that support and nurture complex, real-world problem solving. She is also interested in developing new models for faculty develop-

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ment. She is a senior associate editor and special issues editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. E-mail: wendy.newstetter@coe.gatech.edu. KEVIN O’CONNOR is assistant professor of educational psychology at University of Colorado, Boulder. His scholarship focuses on human action, communication, and learning as socioculturally organized phenomena. One major strand of research has explored the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilemmas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. Another strand of research has explored community organizing efforts that aim to construct new trajectories into valued futures for youth, especially those of nondominant communities. He is coeditor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; and the Journal of Engineering Education. His teaching interests include developmental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; and discourse analysis. E-mail: Kevin.OConnor@colorado.edu. MARIE C. PARETTI is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, the co-director of the Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center, and the former director of the Engineering Communication Program for Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics at VT. She holds degrees in both chemical engineering and English, and her research interests include communication pedagogies in engineering classrooms as well as communication practices in engineering workplaces. E-mail: mparetti@vt.edu. KURT PATERSON currently serves as Head of the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Paterson is an award-winning educator, author, mentor, and photographer, as well as a noted workshop designer and public speaker on community engagement in engineering. He leads several national initiatives, recently launching ASEE’s newest division, Community Engagement in Engineering Education. He is PI on research projects assessing the impacts of community engagement on students, faculty, and communities around the world. E-mail: paterskg@jmu.edu.