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Rebecca Essig

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2014
Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentEngineering Education and PedagogyExperimental Learning in EngineeringDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesMarine and coastal ecosystems

Publications

14

Citations

135

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

12

Publishing since 2014

Research summary
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Rebecca Essig's work focuses on engineering education, particularly how writing and communication skills can be integrated into first-year and core engineering courses. Her research examines teaching methods, course design, and student retention, including outreach efforts aimed at introducing girls to engineering and leadership. An earlier line of work also involved environmental water-quality monitoring in the Great Lakes region.

Engineering education and curriculum designWriting-to-learn techniques in engineering coursesFirst-year engineering student retentionSTEM outreach and mentorship for underrepresented groupsWater quality monitoring (earlier research)

Publication output has been low and uneven over the past decade, with occasional small clusters of activity (e.g., 2018-2020, 2024-2025) interspersed with years of no recorded output.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
172018: 1 publication182019: 1 publication192020: 3 publications3202122232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication×1
  • Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice×1
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research×1
  • The Journal of STEM Outreach×1
  • Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University)×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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