Mentors
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Vanessa Lynn Svihla
Dr. Vanessa Svihla is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) with appointments in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program and the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. She serves the School of Engineering as the Special Assistant to the Dean for Learning Sciences. Her dissertation (The University of Texas at Austin) investigated learning in a biomedical engineering capstone design course. She served in the Peace Corps and was a post-doctoral scholar at UC Berkeley. She was selected as a 2014 National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Scholar and was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in 2018. As the architect of UNM’s REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (RED) project, Dr. Svihla collaborates with engineering faculty to identify and build on diverse students’ engineering assets. Dr. Svihla's edited books, Design as Scholarship and Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Educational Research explore challenges researchers face when aiming to do work that has meaning in the world. Dr. Svihla's research focuses on how people learn when they design, building on her own practice in fashion and instructional design. She is particularly interested in how people frame problems, how these activities relate to identity, agency and creativity, and ways to assess these complex disciplinary practices.
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Baker, Glenn Eli
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