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Compared to traditional engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, chemical and computer, the field of engineering education has a low profile. I certainly wasn t aware of it as a student, said Brooke Coley, an assistant professor of engineering at The Polytechnic School, one of the six Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. My academic background is in biomechanics or the science of slips, trips and falls. But I was introduced to engineering education as an area of research during a postdoctoral policy fellowship at the National Science Foundation, and what I discovered was immediately compelling.