{"id":3265,"date":"2026-06-11T20:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/?page_id=3265"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:39:18","slug":"sharon-miller-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/sharon-miller-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Miller Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><div  class=\"section has-padding-bottom-small  page-layout-wide page-layout-two-column\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns page-layout-columns columns is-multiline is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column column is-full-tablet page-layout-main is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dir-smiller.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Miller\" class=\"wp-image-1917\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dir-smiller.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dir-smiller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dir-smiller-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aged-gold-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db80394b9d20397b3899fa34e446fafa\"><strong><strong>Sharon Miller<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Assistant Vice Provost Purdue University in Indianapolis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ce794d23ee35f34a327b5ce028afe3c1 wp-block-paragraph\">Sharon Miller joined the provost\u2019s office as assistant vice provost for Purdue in Indianapolis in October 2023. In this role she provides leadership for Purdue in Indianapolis with a focus on curriculum and the student experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2a6b204226c2cc58e46ff7d0221d0bf2 wp-block-paragraph\">Miller is also an associate professor of practice in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and brings strong curriculum and program development experiences built from collaborative partnerships. Her P-20 experiences have provided her opportunities to develop, implement, and assess curricular changes that embed engineering design, ethics, and technical communication within different curricula. Her grant funded engineering education work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), in addition to many internal seed awards. This scholarship of teaching and learning and engineering education work focuses on learning how undergraduate student self-efficacy relates to design achievement. Furthermore, Miller has continued to increase experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates in Indianapolis by helping secure funding for an NIH-supported summer clinical residency program for engineering students that challenges students to integrate socioeconomic considerations into clinically relevant design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48bc57548a7abf70fbbb1716d5c06eca wp-block-paragraph\">Miller enjoys teaching, advising, and mentoring students and has been awarded the IUPUI Trustees Teaching Award (2022), the IUPUI Wisner-Stoelk Outstanding Faculty award (2021), the Jaguar Academic Advising Association Faculty Advisor of the Year (2020), and the Aurora University Mark and Marcus Trumbo Excellence in Teaching Award (2015). Her effective coaching of senior capstone design teams has led to local and national design student awards such as an NIH-VentureWell DEBUT award and her creative leadership has forged opportunities for students to connect with several Indianapolis companies and resources including the IU School of Medicine and the IU Health 3D Innovations Lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39d1db32da36ce82a63c7b7ff6092b8e wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Miller received a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) and Master of Science and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering (BME) from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3265\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}