{"id":638,"date":"2017-09-29T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T07:47:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/meercat\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

MEERCat Purdue stands for the Mechanical Engineering Education Research Center at Purdue and launched in June 2017. MEERCat currently houses federally-funded research on educating engineers and leverages the strong collaboration among faculty from the Purdue School of Engineering Education (ENE) and the School of Mechanical Engineering (ME).<\/p>\n

MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enabling the holistic formation of Mechanical Engineers by bridging research & practice<\/p>\n

VISION<\/strong>
\nWe are disciplinary experts in scalable mechanical engineering education research with a passion to empower learners, instructors, mentors, industries, and external partners to enable:<\/p>\n

1) Lifelong student success and thriving
\n2) Thoughtful transitions from academia to industry
\n3) Faculty innovation through programmatic change management<\/p>\n

Our vision is to be the world\u2019s most student-centric mechanical engineering education research and transition organization, leveraging our deep expertise in both mechanical engineering and engineering education to cultivate the best mechanical engineers who graduate and live engaged, productive lives, adding value to both their employers and their communities.<\/p>\n

AREAS OF FOCUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data-Driven Approach<\/a>
\nCultural Change<\/a>
\nImplementing at Scale<\/a>
\nCollege-to-Workforce<\/a><\/p>\n

TEAM MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Edward Berger, Executive Director<\/a>
\nDr. Jennifer DeBoer, Director of Research<\/a>
\nDr. Jeff Rhoads, Director of Practice<\/a>
\nAngela Goldenstein, Managing Director<\/a><\/p>\n

Freeform Research Team<\/a>
\nRED & re|course Research Team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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