Meet the GLIDE Research Group

Kirsten A. Davis, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Dr. Kirsten Davis is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research explores the design and assessment of global engineering programs, student development through experiential learning, and approaches for teaching and assessing systems thinking skills. Dr. Davis's research is informed by her professional experiences working as an engineer at General Electric and as a study abroad program leader. Across her research projects, Dr. Davis seeks to connect educational research to educational practice and employs a variety of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Dr. Davis holds a B.S. in Engineering & Management from Clarkson University and an M.A.Ed. in Higher Education, M.S. in Systems Engineering, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Virginia Tech.  For her leadership and research of international programs, Dr. Davis received the 2019 Harold Josephson award for professional promise in international education from the Association of International Education Administrators.

GLIDE Research Group Members

Siddhant (Sid) Joshi
Ph.D. Candidate
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Research interests: Sid’s research focuses on areas such as systems thinking, engineering problem solving, intercultural learning, and developing competencies and skills of engineers to meet the needs of the industry and society.
Anne Wrobetz
Ph.D. Candidate
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Research interests: Anne's research interests center around the experiences of working and caretaking students in engineering-for-transfer programs at community colleges, and the institutional support structures that help these students persist to careers in engineering.
David Czerwonky
Ph.D. Student
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Research Interests: David's current research interests include undergraduate research experiences, model-based reasoning in electromagnetics, teaching sociotechnical aspects of electronic circuits, and computational bioelectromagnetics.
Lexy Arinze
Ph.D. Student
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Research Interests: Lexy’s research interests surround global engineering impacts, early career engineers and developing competencies to bridge the academia-industry gap.

GLIDE Alumni

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Cloris Chen
M.S. in Engineering Education
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​  Amanda Wolf
  Undergraduate Researcher 
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​Harry Gomez-Donato
Undergraduate Researcher
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​Sage Maul
Ph.D. Student
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Dr. Davis's Advising Approach
Challenge and Support – I will support you in finding the resources you need and to challenging you to grow as an educator and a researcher.
Feedback – One of the biggest ways we can challenge and support each other is through detailed and growth-focused feedback.
Growth Mindset – I view every experience as an opportunity to learn and encourage  students working with me to do this as well. As a mentor, I will work to build in opportunities for reflection.
Apprenticeship – In a Ph.D., you learn by doing, where you start with more support and gradually over time shift to having more responsibility.