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Lee Rynearson

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2009Rising activity
Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentEngineering Education and PedagogyExperimental Learning in EngineeringBiomedical and Engineering EducationHigher Education Research Studies

Publications

22

Citations

24

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

17

Publishing since 2009

Research summary
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Lee Rynearson works in engineering education, focusing on how first-year engineering programs are designed and taught. Their work covers topics like curriculum development, professional identity formation, hands-on design projects, and classroom/lab space design to support new engineering students. This research is aimed at improving how engineering programs recruit, teach, and retain students, especially in the earliest stages of their studies.

First-year engineering curriculum designEngineering professional identity and community of practiceHands-on and project-based learningProgram development and student recruitment/retentionClassroom and lab space design for engineering education

Publication activity has been uneven over the last decade, with gaps in several years followed by a cluster of outputs in 2018, 2020, and especially 2024, suggesting bursty rather than steady output.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
172018: 4 publications18192020: 2 publications202122232024: 5 publications5242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
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  • Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University)×1
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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