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Education for Leadership Roles
- Preparation to be faculty members, education specialists, policymakers
- Understanding of the engineering education ecosystem
- Experience with various teaching and learning environments
Research Focus Areas
- Student-centered learning and design based apprenticeship
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Diversity and cultures of inclusion
- Role of informal learning environments
- Universal design for STEM students with (learning) disabilities
- Workforce development
Research Outcomes
- Improved teaching techniques that lead to conceptual understanding
- Approaches to teach basic science in an engineering context
- Models of realistic problem-solving
- Guidance for improving undergraduate research experiences
Research Benefits
- Improved conceptual understanding and long-term retention of content
- Students who are prepared for professional practice
- Improved climates for a diverse engineering workforce
People
Rui Guo
Lecturer Department of Civil & Coastal EngineeringBiography
Rui Guo is a Lecturer of the Department of Engineering Education and the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She currently teaches transportation courses for engineers. Before joining UF, she worked as an instructor in Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University from 2017 to 2019. She also worked as a research associate in the ITS and Safety program at Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) from 2015 to 2016. Rui received her BS degree at Southeast University in 2008 and obtained her PhD degree at University of South Florida in 2015. Her research interests include multimodal traffic safety, sustainable transportation, air transportation, and engineering education. She has conducted 10+ funded research projects from state DOT as well as national agencies, presented her studies in core conferences, and published research papers in the major peer-reviewed journals.
Primary Research Area
Environmental Nanotechnology
Other Research Areas
Engineering Education Collaborative
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