Deb Chachra

Chachra studies the experience of student engineers.^[20] She does not like to be referred to as a "maker" because she believes the world is associated with a male dominated culture.^[21] She is part of Olin College's Collaboratory.^[22] She writes a column for American Society for Engineering Education's magazine Prism called Reinvention.^[23] At Olin College she is looking at how women and minority students engage with engineering education, designing interventions to improve retention and diversity.^[24] She works with engineers all over the world on the development of new education programs.^[25][26] She has investigated group- and project-based learning in engineering education.^[27] She explored ways to develop a bioengineering program with a small footprint.^[28] In 2013 she studied gender and computing, developing a "Gender and Engineering Exploration Kit".^[29] Chachra has challenged academic publishers to combat bias in the industry.^[20] She has written editorials for Nature about the experience of women engineers.^[30] She continues to return the University of Toronto, talking about the design of engineering education.^[31]

Awards and honors

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