Group Members

Natasha Perova is currently a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She previously worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a research assistant focusing on students’ learning algebra and also taught an introductory physics course at Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts. Before that she worked as a graduate research assistant at the Center for Engineering Educational and Outreach at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Dana received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University, a master's degree in Physics Education from the University of Virginia, and a master's degree in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. Her research interests are difficult concepts in engineering, assessment & instrument development, and information literacy in engineering.

Qaiser Malik received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Engineering Education from Michigan State University (MSU) in 2010. He earlier got his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MSU and B.E in Aeronautical Engineering from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. He is currently working as the technology steward for Collaboratory for Engineering Education Research (CLEERhub.org)

Geoffrey earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Illinois Foundry for Engineering Education as well as the Engineering Education department at Purdue University. His research interests include conceptual change and development in engineering students, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, blended learning (integrating online teaching tools into the classroom), and intelligent tutoring systems.