Dr. Wendy Newstetter has been appointed as the Director of Educational Research and Innovation for the College of Engineering. Newstetter previously served as director of learning sciences research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.

Newstetter will focus on transforming engineering education by encouraging the development of innovative faculty and educational approaches.  She will be responsible for identifying and developing new models for enhancing and extending knowledge in learning/cognitive science and educational research and mentoring faculty wanting to develop new models for teaching and learning their disciplinary area.  Newstetter will also be working with engineering graduate students wanting to pursue academic careers and developing new research projects aimed at assessing institutional effectiveness from the instructional and educational perspective.

After earning her B.S. in Asian Studies at Colby College, Newstetter went on to Lancaster University for her Masters and Ph.D. in Linguistics.  At Georgia Tech, she has also worked in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and the College of Computing.