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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education
Meet the Faculty
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David Hammer
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Professor, Department Chair,
Director of STEM Education Program
David studies learning and teaching in the sciences and engineering, across
ages from young children through adults. Most of his work has been in physics;
he started thinking about engineering education in 2010 when he joined the
Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.
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Bárbara M. Brizuela
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Professor, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts & Sciences
I have taught kindergartners, graduate students, and many others in between,
and my current research focuses on children's learning of elementary
mathematics, including early algebra, children's learning of the notational
number system and other notational aspects of mathematics, and mathematics
teachers' learning and professional development.
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Brian E. Gravel
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Assistant Professor, Director of Elementary Education
Brian studies how people use representations to think and
reason–within technological environments, in makerspaces, and in elementary
school classrooms. He works with future teachers in STEM fields to foster
intellectual approaches to teaching built on the belief that children are
nascent scholars with many valuable resources that serve as the foundation of
meaningful work.
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Julia Gouvea
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Assistant Professor
Julia studies biology learners and biology learning environments
primarily at the secondary and post-secondary levels. She is primarily
interested in studying and designing learning experiences for biology students
that support scientific reasoning. |
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Andrew Izsak
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Professor
Andrew's research focuses on how students and teachers reason about topics related
to multiplication (including fraction arithmetic, proportional relationships, and
linear equations). He is especially interested in how they make use of inscriptions
(drawings) and resources for reasoning about quantities. In addition to research on
teaching and learning, he enjoys developing novel mathematics courses. |
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Jessica Watkins
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Research Assistant Professor
Jessica studies how learners reason and participate in science and
engineering. In particular she looks at how learning environments support
students in taking up the practices and purposes of these disciplines. While her
background is in physics, she also looks at learning in interdisciplinary
contexts involving biology, math, and engineering. |
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Kristen Bethke Wendell
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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
Kristen studies learning and teaching in engineering, at
levels from elementary school to undergraduate. In
particularly she's focused on discourse practices in
engineering and how to support learners' engagement in them;
prospective teachers' learning to solve engineering design
problems in their local communities; and responsive
practices of teaching in engineering. |
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