Welcome from everyone in Brophy’s research team.  In this site we share some of our current work. Please feel free to contact anyone on the team for more information about our projects.  Dr. Brophy would be pleased to talk with you about our work and how to become a member of our lab. 

 

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Mission:

Explores issues and opportunities for enhancing engineering education environments using principles of how people learn and the affordances of technology.

 

Our research focuses on

*      mechanisms and knowledge to comprehend, analyze, troubleshoot and design complex systems.  

*      how noticing and explaining how systems work impact generating innovative ideas and plans of action. 

*      mechanisms and tools used by novices as they develop toward expert methods of reasoning. 

 

 

Course offering Spring 2010 – Cognitive Devices in STEM Learning Environments