John Morelock, Ph.D.

EETI Associate Director for Educational Innovation and Impact

Research Interests: Institutional change, Student motivation, Faculty & graduate student development


Dr. Morelock is an Assistant Professor of Practice with an emphasis on engineering education research, and EETI’s Associate Director of Educational Innovation and Impact.  In addition to coordinating EETI’s faculty development programming, Dr. Morelock conducts research on institutional change via faculty development, with an emphasis on innovative ways to cultivate and evaluate supportive teaching and learning networks in engineering departments and colleges.  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.

 

 

Selected Courses

ENED 7010: Preparing to Be an Effective Engineering Educator

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