Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Tooker Professor and Assistant Dean of Engineering Education, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
• Associate Research Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Biography

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh is Assistant Dean of Engineering Education and Tooker Professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Ganesh’s research is in designing, implementing, and studying engineering education curricula, fostering classroom goal structures that promote mastery learning, and engaging in system-wide change to develop students’ engineering identity. His research has attracted support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Science Foundation Arizona, and other prominent foundations. He is principal investigator of Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), co-principal investigator of Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3): The Modeling Institute (2009-2014), and co-principal investigator of Water SCIENCE: Supporting Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering, and Career Exploration with Water (2014-2017), all, National Science Foundation-sponsored projects. He is married to Annapurna Ganesh, who is residential faculty in Early Childhood Education and Chair of Education Studies, at Mesa Community College. Ganesh is an avid reader and collects books. He enjoys photography and likes taking photographs of doors.

Education

• PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State University, 2003
• MCS, Computer Science, Arizona State University, 1994
• BE, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mysore, India, 1989

Expertise

• engineering education
• research methodology
• graphical exploratory data analysis
• Clean Water and Sanitation
• Quality Education