Research Theme:
Human Interfacing Devices,Research Interests:
Engineering Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Epistemic Development, and Educational Measurement
Biography:
Dr. Todd Fernandez is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the School of Biomedical Engineering. Todd was previously the Director of Learning Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. There he led a variety of educational change projects including introducing machine learning and AI into technical engineering courses and integrating health professionals students into engineering design courses. His research interests are engineering faculty and students beliefs about knowledge and education with a special focus on how those beliefs interact with engineering education as a culture. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Kern Family Foundation.