Research Foci:
The Texas Engineering Experiment Station’s Education Achievement Division has worked since1991 on research and development of innovations in engineering education. The overarching questions that have guided the work are
- Exploration of issues that inhibit certain groups of people from matriculation into engineering degree programs and effectiveness of intervention efforts. This exploration has included studies on the entry of women, ethnic minority males, and ethnic minority females into engineering studies at the BS, MS, and PhD levels, as well as entry of US citizens into PhD studies in engineering.
- Exploration of issues that interfere with the persistence of women, ethnic minority males, and ethnic minority females in engineering educational programs and the effectiveness of intervention efforts. This has been primarily focused at the undergraduate level, but recent work has investigated graduate level student persistence.
- Exploration of educational environments and pedagogies that enhance the success, measured by numerous metrics in academic and then professional performance and persistence in engineering, of all students enrolled in engineering.
- Exploration of strategies for change management for major unit innovations in engineering education as well as individual faculty members’ development in new pedagogical approaches.
Contact Information:
Dr. Karan Watson, Ph.D., P.E.
Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost
1126 TAMU
607 Rudder Tower
College Station, TX 77843-1126
Voice 979-845-4274
Fax 979-845-1822
Email watson@tamu.edu