Monica Cardella
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
204
Citations
3,094
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
23
Publishing since 2002
Monica Cardella studies how people learn and think about engineering, spanning young children, K-12 students, and college engineering students. Her work looks at design thinking, mathematical problem-solving, and how engineering concepts are introduced and communicated in both formal classrooms and informal settings like family interactions. This research is aimed at improving engineering education and understanding how learners of different ages engage with design and math.
Publication output was relatively low and steady from 2017-2019, spiked sharply in 2020 with 75 publications, then dropped to a much lower and fairly stable rate from 2021 onward.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Mathematical Modeling in Preexisting K-12 Engineering Design Challenges (Fundamental)
2024
- Storytelling Approaches for Elevating Student Voices in Research and Dissemination
2024
- Capturing the Design Thinking of Young Children Interacting with a Parent
2020
- Gender Research on Adult-child Discussions within Informal Engineering Environments (GRADIENT): Early Findings
2020
- Engineering Students’ Mathematical Thinking: In The Wild And With A Lab Based Task
2020
- Engineering Student Design Processes: Looking At Evaluation Practices Across Problems
2020
- Engineering Students’ Mathematical Problem Solving Strategies In Capstone Projects
2020
- Engineering Childhood: Knowledge Transmission Through Parenting
2020
- Using Puppets to Elicit Talk During Interviews on Engineering with Young Children
2020
- Engineering Students’ Experiences of Workplace Problem Solving
2020
- Early work for the Mathematics as a Gatekeeper to Engineering Project: A Review of Informal Learning, Engineering and Design Thinking Literature
2020
- Comparative Study of First-Year Engineering Honors Programs between U.S. and China
2020
- Integrating Children’s Literature into Occupational Learning about Engineers
2020
- Analysis of Design Process Knowledge Task Responses: Statistical Approaches to Uncover Patterns (Research)
2020
- CAREER: Mathematics as a Gatekeeper to Engineering: The Interplay between Mathematical Thinking and Design Thinking – Using Video Data
2020
- 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×4
- Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)×3
- Design Studies×2
- International journal of engineering education×2
- International Journal of Technology and Design Education×1
- Natascha Buswell
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Morgan Hynes
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Todd R. Kelley
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Şenay Purzer
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Greg Strimel
Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette
This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.
Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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