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ECE Education Research is a rigorous, interdisciplinary field in which scholars focus on and apply research methods from education, learning sciences, and social-behavioral sciences to address a variety of issues pertaining to: teaching and learning; college access and persistence; workforce development; and other issues critical to the success of the field of engineering. Scholars in the subfield of ECE Education Research focus on issues pertinent to the discipline of electrical and computer engineering.
ECE Faculty
Alexander Burgers
WebsiteQuantum optics, hybrid quantum systems, cold atoms in optical tweezers, cavity QED, nanophotonics, integrated quantum systems, light-matter interactions, Rydberg mediated interactions, quantum simulation and quantum sensing.Parag Deotare
WebsiteResearch includes light-matter interaction in nanoscale systems and the development of low energy photonic and excitonic devices for applications in data communication and life sciences.Jeffrey A. Fessler 
WebsiteMentoring PlanStatistical signal and image processing; Tomographic imaging; Parameter estimation; machine-learning methods for inverse problems.Cynthia Finelli
WebsiteEngineering education research: evidence-based teaching, active learning, faculty practices that support diverse students, student learning, and institutional change.James S. Freudenberg
WebsiteFundamental design limitations in feedback control systems, embedded control systems.Brian E. Gilchrist
WebsitePlasma electrodynamics and diagnostics; Wireless Technology; Space Systems & TechnologyStéphane Lafortune
WebsiteSystem and control theory; Discrete event systems; Application to computer and communication systemsMingyan Liu
WebsiteMentoring PlanResource allocation, performance modeling, sequential decision and learning theory, game theory and incentive mechanisms, with applications to large-scale networked systems, cybersecurity and cyber risk quantification.Khalil Najafi
WebsiteSolid-state integrated sensors, Microactuators, Micromechanics, Analog and digital integrated circuitsMehdi Saligane
WebsiteBio Sensors, Edge AI Acceleration, Hardware & Software co-design, Hardware Security, Nanofabrication, Sensors.Fred Terry
WebsiteElectronic properties of materials and their effects on devices; physics of solid state devices.Louise Willingale
WebsiteLaser-driven electron and ion acceleration, relativistic laser propagation through underdense and near-critical density plasmas, laser-driven magnetic reconnection, and proton radiography to study electric and magnetic fields generated during the laser-plasma interactions.Herbert Winful
WebsiteNonlinear optics and photonics; fiber laser arrays; nonlinear periodic structures; tunneling time; nanophotonics; semiconductor laser frequency combs.CSE Faculty
Mark Guzdial
WebsiteComputing education research, task-specific programming languages, learning sciences, education public policy, design methods, and public policy.Xu Wang
WebsiteMentoring PlanHuman-computer interaction, artificial intelligence in education, computer supported collaborative learning and work, human-AI interaction, learning sciences and technologies, cognitive science.Courtesy and Affiliated Faculty
Rachel S. Goldman
WebsiteMy research involves investigations of structure-property relationships in thin films and heterostructures.News Feed
Educating People-First Engineers: A Q&A with Cindy Finelli and Erin Cech
Preparing the next generation of engineers to consider public welfare when developing new technologies.Engineers have a duty to protect public well-being, but less than half learn how to do so effectively
Training in formal classes proves the most effective way to prepare engineers to protect public welfare at workEducating engineers as whole people
Researching education leads the way to a diverse, impactful community of professionals.Cindy Finelli receives Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award
Finelli has provided leadership and vision in the area of engineering education for over 20 years and was responsible for establishing and building the Engineering Education Research graduate program.ADHD in engineering: Improving education for neurodiverse college STEM students
The researchers look to increase the diversity of the STEM workforce.
Caroline Crockett awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research bridging two fields
Crockett’s dissertation will integrate two fields: image processing & machine learning and engineering education research
Building ethical engineering leaders: public welfare awareness in graduate education
A new NSF-funded project will result in a unique engineering graduate course on professional responsibility
$1.8M for ‘active learning’, a step toward broader change in higher education
Rare in engineering education research, the project involves a randomized control trial to determine if it’s effective.
Best Paper Award recognizes research in electrical engineering student motivation
Phillips, Lenaway, Daly, and Foley concluded that early exposure to EE technical areas was likely the best way to draw more students to the field further down the line.
New grad program: Engineering Education Research
New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond.
Making learning addictive
Alumnus develops platform that allows instructors to turn almost any course into a multiplayer online game.
Cindy Finelli: Community building and envisioning the future of engineering education research
Finelli takes on the future of educating engineers
Pioneering engineering education research
In the first approach of its kind, U-M is making big strides in the field of Engineering Education Research (EER).