Bhavana Kotla

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Early career · publishing since 2020Rising activity

Engineering Education and Curriculum Development Biomedical and Engineering Education Participatory Visual Research Methods Higher Education Practises and Engagement Experimental Learning in Engineering

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Publishing since 2020

Research summary

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Bhavana Kotla studies engineering education, focusing on how students develop an entrepreneurial mindset and design thinking skills. Their work explores teaching methods such as hackathons, open-ended design challenges, photovoice reflection exercises, and generative AI tools for grading, mainly in first-year and interdisciplinary engineering courses. This research is aimed at improving how engineering curricula prepare students to combine technical skills with creativity and entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial mindset in engineering educationCurriculum design and pedagogySociotechnical and open-ended design challengesUse of generative AI in teaching and assessmentInterdisciplinary STEM-to-arts (STEAM) integration

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from no publications before 2020 to a peak in 2024, with continued activity into 2025 and 2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.8/year recently

Recent publications

Work in Progress: Photovoice Reflection at the STEM-to-HASS Inflection Point of an Entrepreneurially Minded Engineering Project
2026
Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Hackathons: Lessons from Initial Implementation of EM in an Informal Learning Environment
2025
Assessing the Impact of the Use of Generative AI in Developing and Using Assessment Grading Rubrics for Engineering Courses
2025
Modernizing the photogrammetry curriculum by integrating the entrepreneurial mindset, bio-inspired design and STEAM approach
Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning · 2024
Using an open-ended socio-technical design challenge for entrepreneurship education in a first-year engineering course
Frontiers in Education · 2023
Growing the Entrepreneurial Mindset in First Year Engineering Students Using Sociotechnical Design Challenges
International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP) · 2023

Publishes in

Trends in Higher Education×2
European Journal of Engineering Education×1
Frontiers in Education×1
International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP)×1
International Journal of Educational Research Open×1

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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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