About DEL

The Designing Education Lab (DEL) aims to:

• Explore what it means to be a 21st century engineer
• Design, implement and assess research-informed educational tools
• Support the communities of scholars and practitioners in academia and industry who are engaged in educational research and novel educational methods; and
• Contribute to and advance:
  • Equity in engineering
  • Broadening participation in creation
  • Encouraging creation and creators
  • Caring for people's lifelong well being.

This work is grounded in and motivated by personal interest and experience, builds novel connections, aims for change, and is informed by "history" and evidence.

To learn more, the following articles provide additional context on our lab's philosophy and orientation towards engineering education, approach to research, and culture.  

Connecting People and Ideas: Making Sense of a Research Lab through Creating a Shared Frame. (2020). International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(2), 796-813. Authors: Sheri D. Sheppard, Tua Björklund, Helen L. Chen, Shannon K. Gilmartin, Sara Atwood, Eric Reynolds Brubaker, K.J. Chew, Philipp Christov, Catie Cuan, Patrick Danner, Barbara Karanian, Abisola Coretta Kusimo, Leif Luehmann, Vikas Maturi, Chieloka Mbaezue, Fabian Schäfer, Christian Schnell, George Toye, & Marsie Trego.

Three Stanford Faculty Write about Change & Engineering Education. (Fall 2021). Advances in Engineering Education. Authors: Sheri Sheppard, R. Lanier Anderson, Thomas W. Kenny.

Confronting a Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice: Identifying Opportunities for Redesign and Reinvention. (December 2020). Advances in Engineering Education. Author: Sheri Sheppard