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Photo of Idalis Villanueva Alarcón PhD Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, PhD Chair and Professor

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., joined the Engineering Education Department in the University of Florida at Gainesville in summer 2020 as an Associate Professor. Prior to this position, she was an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Utah State University and before that, she was a Lecturer in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland at College Park.…

Photo of Amie Baisley PhD Amie Baisley, PhD Director of Electronic Delivery of Gator Engineering (EDGE) and Thomas O. Hunter Rising Star Instructional Associate Professor

Dr. Baisley is currently an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University and her M.S. in structural engineering and B.S. in civil engineering from Arizona State University. After completing her M.S., she taught the sophomore level mechanics courses at Arizona State University.…

Photo of Amanpreet Kapoor PhD Amanpreet Kapoor, PhD Associate Chair for Academics and Instructional Associate Professor

Amanpreet Kapoor is the Associate Chair for Academics and an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education. He teaches computing undergraduate courses in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 2016 and a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, India in 2015.…

Photo of Curtis Taylor PhD Curtis Taylor, PhD Associate Chair for Research and Associate Professor
Photo of Edwin Marte Zorrilla PhD Edwin Marte Zorrilla, PhD Graduate Program Coordinator and Instructional Assistant Professor

Dr. Edwin Marte Zorrilla is an Instructional Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. His research sits at the intersection of educational technology, physiological and emotional learning metrics, and culturally responsive pedagogy, using tools such as electrodermal activity monitoring, salivary biomarkers, and natural language processing to understand the student experience in STEM education.…