Tamara J. Moore

Tamara Jo Moore is an American scholar of engineering education, the Crowley Family Professor of Engineering Education and Purdue University Faculty Scholar in the Purdue University School of Engineering Education,[1] and executive director of Purdue's INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering.[2] Her research focuses on STEM integration, an approach to education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that emphasizes the interdisciplinary connections between STEM fields rather than their boundaries.[1] She was the first US student to obtain a doctorate in engineering education.[3]

Education and career

Moore studied mathematics with a minor in mathematics education as an undergraduate at Purdue University,[1] and became a high school mathematics teacher. Returning to Purdue for graduate education in mathematics, she discovered the need for engineering students to understand the mathematics she had been teaching, and became interested in engineering education.[3] After a second bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering and master's degree in mathematics education,[1] she completed her Ph.D. in engineering education in 2006, the first US student to obtain a doctorate in engineering education.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Student Team Functioning and the Effect on Mathematical Problem Solving in a First-Year Engineering Course, was jointly supervised by Richard Lesh and Heidi A. Diefes-Dux.[4]

After completing her doctorate, in 2006, she became an assistant professor of mathematics education in the College of Education at the University of Minnesota.[5] She returned to Purdue as an associate professor of engineering education in 2013, and was named as the Crowley Family Professor of Engineering Education in 2025.[6]

Recognition

Moore was a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, "for transformative research on how young students learn engineering concepts that integrates K-12 teacher development that can have a transformative underrepresented minority and under-privileged urban K-12 students".[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tamara Moore", Engineering Education: Our People, Purdue Engineering, retrieved 2026-06-27
  2. ↑ "Our People", INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering, Purdue Engineering, retrieved 2026-06-27
  3. 1 2 3 Henning, Alex (17 February 2008), "Purdue alumnus becomes first Engineering Education grad", Purdue Exponent, retrieved 2026-06-27
  4. ↑ Tamara J. Moore at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Sequin, Cynthia (31 August 2006), "Purdue graduates first engineering education doctoral student", Purdue University News, retrieved 2026-06-27
  6. ↑ "Trustees ratify faculty positions, approve resolutions of appreciation and namings", Purdue News, 12 December 2025, retrieved 2026-06-27
  7. ↑ "Tamara Moore", PECASE recipients, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2026-06-27
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.