Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biography
Pronouns: she/her/hers/ella
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Education
Affiliate Faculty, Chemical Engineering Department
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
University of Florida
Dr. Rivera-Jiménez is an assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Education (EED) and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on understanding the role of engineering communities while enacting their agency in participatory and transformational change.
She is particularly interested in understanding how professional development influences organizational cultures and promotes wider engagement in engineering. As an education practitioner, she also explores evidence-based practices to integrate teamwork, ethical awareness, and effective collaboration into the curriculum.
Dr. Rivera-Jiménez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at many institutions, such as Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), community colleges, and R1 public universities.