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ECE Education Research

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 audio icon

WebsiteMentoring PlanStatistical signal and image processing; Tomographic imaging; Parameter estimation; machine-learning methods for inverse problems.

Cynthia Finelli audio icon

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 & Technology

Stéphane Lafortune

WebsiteSystem and control theory; Discrete event systems; Application to computer and communication systems

Mingyan 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 circuits

Mehdi Saligane

WebsiteBio Sensors, Edge AI Acceleration, Hardware & Software co-design, Hardware Security, Nanofabrication, Sensors.

Clayton D Scott

WebsiteMachine learning theory, methods, and applications.

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 audio icon

WebsiteComputing education research, task-specific programming languages, learning sciences, education public policy, design methods, and public policy.

Brian Noble

WebsiteMentoring Plan

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

Cindy Finelli receives ASEE ECE Division Distinguished Educator Award

Finelli has been a trailblazer throughout her career in Engineering Education Research.

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 work

Educating 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).

Two CSE faculty help make the Ibn Sina School for computer science a reality