Investigating Teacher’s Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in a CAD-enabled Learning Environment

Dr. Dasgupta is a Postdoctoral research fellow at Purdue University. He has a PhD in Learning Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. His dissertation work focused on scaffolding students’ productive disciplinary engagement in engineering design activities using suboptimal models. His research interests include the use of counterexamples as primary generators for supporting productive disciplinary engagement, integration of design thinking and scientific inquiry into K-12 education, and designing learning environments that help students generate and use design heuristics and make effective tradeoff decisions.