Title: McDonnell Family Professorship in Engineering Education and Assistant Professor, Tufts University, School of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Secondary appointments: Mechanical Engineering and Education
Education: B.S., civil engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo; M.S., civil and environmental engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez; M.A., education policy and leadership, Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., science education and learning sciences, Stanford University
Age: 38
Mentors: Drs. Bryan Brown, Guadalupe Valdés, Sheri Sheppard, Roy Pea, Daniel Schwartz, Jonathan Osborne, Jennifer Calvert, Ramón Martinez and Sarah Church at Stanford; Dr. Diego Román, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dr. K.C. Busch, North Carolina State University.
Words of encouragement/wisdom: “Believe in the process, the idea and the passion that you have for what you do and trust it.”
Dr. Greses Pérez combines her professional experience as an engineer and expertise as a learning scientist and science educator to engage and inform not only her students but also academia about who could be entering the engineering profession.
