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Juan David Ortega-Alvarez

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2012Rising activity

Publications

38

Citations

102

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
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Juan David Ortega-Alvarez works in engineering education, focusing on how engineering students learn and how courses can be designed and taught more effectively. His work covers topics like project-based learning, first-year engineering design courses, concept inventories (tools to measure student understanding), and the use of generative AI in teaching, often studying classroom or program-level interventions and student experiences.

Engineering education and pedagogyProject-based and experiential learningFirst-year engineering curriculum designAssessment and concept inventoriesUse of technology (including AI) in teaching

Output was modest and uneven from 2017-2023 with some gap years, but activity increased sharply in 2024-2025, suggesting a recent growth phase in publication activity.

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
2017: 2 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 4 publications20212022: 2 publications22232024: 10 publications10242025: 7 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • El Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad EAFIT (Universidad EAFIT)×2
  • IEEE Transactions on Education×1
  • Studies in Engineering Education×1
  • Computer Applications in Engineering Education×1
  • Lecture notes in networks and systems×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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