Telling Half a Story: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Culturally Relevant Engineering Education in Nigeria and the U.S.

Abstract

is a Doctoral Candidate and Bilsland Dissertation Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests revolve around the professional development of engineering educators in low resource/post-conflict settings and the design and contextualization of instruments to measure the impact of educational interventions. Research projects on these topics have and are currently being conducted in Nigeria, South Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, and the US. His dissertation focuses on understanding the nuances and affordances of culturally relevant engineering education in Nigeria and the United States using a comparative case study methodology.