Department: Staff/Administrator
Email: mbsacre@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-624-9836
Office: 148 Benedum Hall
Engineering Education Focus: Mary's principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and VentureWell. Mary's current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering.
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Department: Industrial Engineering
Email: rmclark@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-648-5359
Office: B12 Benedum Hall
Engineering Education Focus: Dr. Clark conducts research on both externally and internally-funded education-related projects with faculty interested in enhancing and assessing instructional practices within their classrooms. Renee conducts both quantitative and qualitative assessment and evaluation and focuses on pedagogies for active learning, learner-centered instruction, and engineering professional development, including reflection and metacognition, simple active learning to drive interactivity and application, flipped classrooms, adaptive learning, design thinking, and game-based instruction. Another current research area for Dr. Clark is promoting the propagation of active learning in the Swanson School via a 2018 award from the Provost’s Office, in which she coaches and mentors faculty who have an interest in implementing or enhancing active learning in their classrooms, often for the first time. She is also a newly-appointed associate editor for Advances in Engineering Education.
Recent Engineering Education Papers:
Active Grants and Recent Achievement Awards:
Department: Industrial Engineering
Email: aprila@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-383-6014
Office: B12 Benedum Hall
Engineering Education Focus: I facilitate professional development on instructional best practices for current and future STEM faculty, in both synchronous online and in-person environments.
Recent Engineering Education Papers:
Department: Industrial Engineering
Email: lms162@pitt.edu
Phone: 704-264-6415
Office: B-12, Benedum Hall