Engineering Information Technology

Alejandra J. Magana, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology

and Engineering Education

Joint appointment Department of Computer and Information Technology

and School of Engineering Education at Purdue University

401 N. Grant Street

Knoy Hall Room 335

West Lafayette, IN 47907-1421

Phone: 765-***-****

www: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~admagana/

Email: ********@******.***

Professional Preparation:

Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. in Engineering Education, August, 2009.

M.S., Ed. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. in Educational Technology, December, 2007.

M.S., ITESM, Mexico City, in Electronic Commerce, September, 2003.

B.S., ITESM, Mexico City, in Information Systems Engineering, May 2000.

Academic Appointments:

Purdue University Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology

and Engineering Education

Department of Computer and Information Technology

and School of Engineering Education at Purdue University

September 2010 to May 2011.

Purdue University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

Network for Computational Nanotechnology and School of Engineering Education

Post Doctoral Supervisors: Sean P. Brophy (Network for Computational

Nanotechnology) and Ruth Streveler (School of Engineering Education).

August 2009 to August 2010.

Purdue University, Research Assistant and Instructional Designer,

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Graduate Advisors: Sean P. Brophy (Purdue University) and

George M. Bodner (Purdue University)

August 2007 to August 2009.

Purdue University, Apprentice Faculty,

School of Engineering Education,

Spring 2009.

ITESM Mexico City, Continuous Lecturer,

Department of Computer Science

2002 to 2005.

Honors and Awards:

Awarded the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women Fellowship. September 23-24, 2010 at

Purdue University

Awarded the 2010 AERA Division C New Faculty Mentoring Fellowship April 30-May 4.

Denver, Colorado.

Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the 20th Annual SITE International Conference: Magana,

A.J., Brophy, S. and Newby T. (2009) Pre-service teachers perceptions of web-based

interactive media: Three different tools one learning goal.

Best-Poster Award Winner at the Purdue Graduate Student Educational Research Symposium

2008: Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Schaffer, S. (2008), Taxonomy for conceptions of

Size and scale.

Honorific Mention for the highest GPA for undergraduate studies at ITESM Mexico City.

Instructional Design Activities:

Co-design and co-development of the Teach & Learn section on the nanoHUB.org.

Co-design and assessment ABACUS tool-powered curriculum on the nanoHUB.org.

Content development, assessment, and co-design of Generation-Nano.org.

Teaching Activities:

Purdue University, Spring 2011:

CNIT 180 00 Introduction to Systems Development (course instructor)

Purdue University, Spring 2009:

ENE 69500 005 Pedagogy Content and Assessment (co-instructor)

Enrollment: 17 graduate students.

ENE 69500 006 Cognitive Devices in STEM Education (co-instructor)

Enrollment: 7 graduate students.

ITESM, Mexico City, 2002-2005:

CB00812-Introduction to Internet Applications Development (course instructor)

Enrollment: 27, 23, 22, 26, 33, 29, and 28 undergraduate students.

CB00858-Application Development with Multimedia (co-instructor)

Enrollment: 23 students.

CB00899-Project in Community Service (course instructor)

Enrollment: 10 students.

CB00801-Introduction to Computing (course instructor)

Enrollment: 26, and 27 students.

Academic Services:

Committee Member for the Strategic Planning

College of Engineering at Purdue University.

Member of the Technology Diversity Committee

College of Technology at Purdue University.

M.S. Committee Member

College of Technology at Purdue University.

Industry Partnerships:

Boeing Inc. co-developer of the workshop: SFI-Boeing Workshop: Science, Technology,

Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and the U.S. Workforce.

Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, April 2011.

Boeing, Inc. Lead investigator for the project: Characterizing STEM Education and US

Workforce as a complex system.

Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, April, 2011.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Marepalli, P., Magana, A.J., Taleyarkhan, M.R., Sambamurthy, N., and Clark, J.V. (2010).

SugarAid 0.2: An Online Learning Tool for STEM. Proceedings of the 3rd International

Conference on Information Technology in Education (CITE) Wuhan, China. December

10-11.

Vasileska, D., Klimeck, G., Magana, A.J. and Goodnick, S.M. (2010). Tool-Based Curricula

and Visual Learning. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on e-Learning

(ECEL) Porto, Portugal. November 4-5.

Streveler, R. and Magana, A. J. (2010). Thinking in a Brand New Way: Exploring the

Epistemology of Nanotechnology Researchers. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education

(FIE) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. October 27-30.

Magana, A.J. and Garcia, E.R. (2010). FiPy and OOF: Computational Simulations as Learning

Tools to Convey Computational Materials Concepts and Ideas. Proceedings of the 117th

Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. June 20-23. Louisville, Kentucky.

Magana, A.J. and Riley, D. (2010). First-year Students Perceptions of the Societal and Ethical

Implications of Nanotechnology. Proceedings of the 117th Annual ASEE Conference and

Exposition. June 20-23. Louisville, Kentucky.

Streveler, R., Magana, A.J., Smith, K. and Clark-Douglas, T. (2010). CLEERhub.org: Creating

a Digital Habitat for Engineering Education Researchers. Proceedings of the 117th

Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. June 20-23. Louisville, Kentucky.

Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Bodner G. (2009) Are Simulation Tools Developed and Used by

Experts Appropriate Experimentation Tools for Educational Contexts? Proceedings of

the 116th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. June 14-17. Austin TX.

Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Newby T. (2009) Pre-service teachers perceptions of web-based

instructional media: Three different tools one learning goal. Proceedings of the 20th

Annual SITE International Conference. March 2 - 6, 2009. Charleston, South Carolina.

Best-Paper Award Winner

Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Bodner, G.M. (2008). Professors instructional approaches and

students perceptions of nanoHUB simulations as learning tools. Proceedings of the

115th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. June 22-25. Pittsburgh, PA

Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Newby T. (2008), Scaffolding student s conceptions of

proportional size and scale cognition with analogies and metaphors. Proceedings of the

115th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition. June 22-25. Pittsburgh, PA

Journal Publications under Review:

Magana, A. J., Brophy, S. P. and Bodner, G. M. (in review) Instructors experiences of

computational simulations as learning tools. Journal of Engineering Education.

Magana, A. J., Brophy, S. P. and Bodner, G. M. (in review). A framework for computational

simulations as teaching and learning tools in engineering learning environments.

Instructional Science.

Brophy, S. P., Magana, A. J. and Strachan A. H. (in review). Improving learners conceptual

understanding of properties of materials with molecular dynamics simulations. Advances

in Engineering Education.

Magana, A. J., Brophy, S. P. and Bodner, G. M. (in review) Engineering and science students

perceptions of nanoHUB.org simulations. Journal of Computing in Higher Education.

Presentations, Seminars and Workshops:

Yang, D., Streveler, R., Miller, R., Barrett, N., Magana, A.J., and Santiago-Roman, A. (2011).

Facing Robust Misconceptions: When Should the Interventions Begin? Presentation at

the Annual AERA Meeting: Inciting the Social Imagination: Education Research for the

Public Good. April 8-12. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Magana, A.J. (2010). Teaching and Learning with nanoHUB Simulation Tools: Transforming

Research Findings into Instructional Approaches. Presentation at the Engineering

Education Research Seminar Series. Purdue University West Lafayette, IN., September

30, 2010.

Magana, A.J., Brophy, S. and Bodner G. (2010). The transparency paradox: computational

simulations as learning tools for engineering graduate education. Presentation at the

Annual AERA Meeting: Understanding complex Ecologies in a Changing World. April

30-May 4. Denver, Colorado.

Magana, A.J. (2010). Computational Simulations for Teaching and Learning. Research

Colloquium at Ball State University at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Ball

State University Muncie, IN. March 25, 2010.

Adams G., Madhavan, K. Brophy S., Magana, A.J. (2009) Co designer and facilitator for the

NCN Simulation-based Learning Workshop: Integrating Computational Simulations into

Learning Environments. Big Ten Conference Headquarters and Meeting Center in

Chicago, IL November 5-6, 2009.

Magana, A.J. (2009). Characterizing and scaffolding students' conceptions of size and scale.

Presentation at the Engineering Education Research Seminar Series. Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN., September 10, 2009.

Grant Writing Activities:

Alejandra J. Magana (PI). NSF-SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPRF): Identifying

Research Engineers and Scientists Perceptions and Experiences of Computational

Thinking (I-RESPECT). Research objective: To broaden the understanding of how

scientists and engineers conceive and experience computational thinking by means of

computational tools (declined).

R. Edwin Garcia (PI) and Alejandra J. Magana (Co-PI). Transforming Undergraduate Education

in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES): Conveying

Computational Thermodynamics of Materials through a Cyber-Enabled Research and

Learning Module. Research objective: to develop, implement, and evaluate the

educational potential of a Cyber-Enabled Research and Learning Module to accelerate

and enhance undergraduate learning of thermodynamics of computational materials

through user-friendly, interdisciplinary simulation tools (declined).

Alejandra J. Magana (PI) and John Springer (Co-PI). Transforming Undergraduate Education in

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES): Identifying Computational

and Scientific Thinking in the Context of Proteomics: an Integrative Approach to STEM

Undergraduate Education. Research objective: to investigate the different ways of

conceiving and experiencing computational and scientific thinking by researchers and

students in proteomics to enhance how students apply these ways of thinking through a

problem-based learning module (pending).

Professional Memberships:

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

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