Professor
Department of Engineering & Science Education
Office: 255 Sirrine Hall
Phone: (864) 656-7148
Email: lbenson@clemson.edu
Editor, Journal of Engineering Education
Ph.D., Clemson University, 2002, Bioengineering
M.S., Clemson University, 1986, Bioengineering, (Minor in EE)
B.S., University of Vermont, 1982, Bioengineering
My research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects focus on student perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, development of problem-solving skills, self-regulated learning, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve student-centered instruction, engineering in secondary science and mathematics classrooms, and assessing engineering students' global competencies.
Undergraduate:
Bioengineering 3200, Biomechanics
Graduate:
ESED 8200, Teaching Undergraduate Engineering
ESED 8250, Engineering and Science Student Strategies
Dennis Lee
Catherine McGough
Victoria Sellers
Science as Art
Sigma Xi (scientific research society)
Clemson Memorial Carillon