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Cristián Vargas-Ordóñez

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Early career · publishing since 2020Rising activity
Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentMindfulness and Compassion InterventionsCreativity in Education and NeuroscienceBiomedical and Engineering EducationDesign Education and Practice

Publications

14

Citations

10

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

6

Publishing since 2020

Research summary
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Cristián Vargas-Ordóñez works in engineering education research, focusing on how compassion, social justice, and human-centered approaches can be built into how engineering is taught. Their work explores topics like well-being of engineering students, inclusion and equity in engineering programs, and integrating art and creativity into engineering curricula. Much of this research involves designing and validating tools to measure attitudes like compassion and social justice, as well as creating new hands-on learning activities.

Compassion and ethics in engineering educationSocial justice and epistemic inclusion in engineeringHuman-centered engineering as a disciplineIntegrating art and creativity with engineeringStudent well-being and self-assessment in engineering programs

Publication output was minimal or absent for most of the last decade but increased sharply in 2024 and 2025, suggesting a recent surge in research activity.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
1718192020: 1 publication202122232024: 7 publications7242025: 6 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×2
  • Education Sciences×1
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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