Engineering Education, PHD

About the Program

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering Education program at Purdue University is designed for individuals who want to pursue rigorous research in how engineering, science, technology, and math, are best taught, learned, and practiced. The department’s alumni grow and transform the discipline; broaden participation in engineering; discover how engineers think and approach problems; and reveal new ways to assess engineering learning.

Purdue established the School of Engineering Education (ENE)-the world’s first such academic unit-in 2004, and along with it, the world’s first Engineering Education Ph.D. Program. Since graduating our first doctoral student in 2006, ENE has grown an alumni base active in defining and expanding the discipline, and our graduates hold academic positions at prestigious universities across the world in engineering education and STEM disciplines as well as positions in industry and the nonprofit sector. The department shares its findings broadly, and its research efforts influence how engineering is taught in the U.S. and abroad.

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Program Requirements

90 Credits Required

(30 credits from a Master’s may be applied.)

Concentrations

Departmental concentrations:

• Chemical Education/Engineering Education

Interdisciplinary concentrations:

• Computational Engineering Concentration (GR)  
• Interdisciplinary Ecological Sciences and Engineering Concentration (GR)  

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