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Nicholas Fila

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2010
Design Education and PracticeEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentBiomedical and Engineering EducationCreativity in Education and NeuroscienceEngineering Education and Pedagogy

Publications

81

Citations

607

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

17

Publishing since 2010

Research summary
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Nicholas Fila studies how engineers are educated and how they experience their profession, focusing on topics like empathy, ethics, creativity, and design thinking in engineering courses. His work often involves redesigning engineering curricula and studying how students and faculty think about and practice engineering, particularly in biomedical and computer engineering contexts. This research is aimed at improving how engineering is taught and how ethical and empathetic reasoning is fostered among students and educators.

Engineering education and curriculum designEthics in engineering practice and researchEmpathy and design thinking in engineeringCreativity and innovation in student projectsCourse design methodology

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a large spike in 2020, a dip in 2021-2022, and a modest, fairly steady rate of a few papers per year since 2023.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 5 publications18192020: 21 publications21202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication222023: 4 publications232024: 7 publications242025: 4 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • International journal of engineering education×3
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×3
  • Purdue University Press eBooks×2
  • CoDesign×1
  • AEE Journal×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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