Engineering Childhood: Knowledge Transmission Through Parenting

Dr. Monica Cardella is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also the director of Informal Learning Environments Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Learning and Research (INSPIRE). She conducts research on undergraduate engineering students’ design and mathematical thinking in formal and informal contexts in addition to research on how children develop engineering thinking in informal learning environments.

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