PCET Program Staff
Dr. Christine Cunningham
Dr. Christine Cunningham is a research consultant at the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach at Tufts University and the VP of Research at the Boston Museum of Science. She works with K-12 teacher professional development programs focused on engineering education; initiatives to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in undergraduate, graduate, and faculty positions in engineering; and research related to K-12 students' and teachers' conceptions engineering, factors that encourage or discourage pursuit of an engineering major, and how engineering concepts can best be taught to primary and secondary school teachers and students.
Email: ccunningham@mos.org
Ms. Meredith Knight
Meredith Knight is the Program Coordinator for the PCET Program. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach and Teacher Educator for the Engineering is Elementary program at the Boston Museum of Science. Her past projects include investigating gender equity in engineering at the college level, with a specific focus on gender equity in engineering education. She is currently pursuing graduate work in Education with a focus on engineering education at Tufts University.
Email: mknight@mos.org
Dr. Carol Barry
Dr. Carol Barry is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. She is a laboratory coordinator, and teaches classes in Plastics Engineering. Her areas of research include: Extrusion, Injection Molding, Electroheology, Novel Processing Techniques and Analysis, Coating, CAE (Computer Aided Engineering), and Nano-Plastics Processing.
Email: Carol_Barry@uml.edu
Dr. Martha Cyr
Dr. Martha Cyr is the new Director for K-12 Outreach at WPI where she provides leadership for all the K-12 outreach efforts. In addition she is part of the Mechanical Engineering department, teaching heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Prior to this position she was the Director of the Center of Engineering Educational Outreach and a professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, helping to create and build a national reputation for K-12 engineering outreach.
Email: mcyr@wpi.edu
PCET is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant No ESI-0138766. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
