Dr. Morelock is an Associate Professor of Practice and the Associate Director of Educational Innovation and Impact in UGA’s Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI).  He coordinates EETI’s faculty and graduate student development programming.  His research focuses on faculty development and organizational change, with an emphasis on creating and sustaining communities of engineering faculty that value educational excellence and support one another in achieving it.  He received his doctoral degree in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where he was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation studied the teaching practices of engineering instructors during game-based learning activities, and how these practices affected student motivation.