Community Leaders
Christopher Swan
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum Development, School of Engineering
Tufts University
E-mail: Chris.Swan@tufts.edu
Christopher Swan is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department and currently serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Curriculum Development in the School of Engineering at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Department of Education, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. He has been an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education, having served at various officer posts for the Environmental Engineering Division (2003-7) and the Community Engagement Division (2011 – present). His current research interests in engineering education focus on project-based learning and service-based pedagogies. He also does research on the impact of temperature (heating and/or freezing) on engineering properties of soils and on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.
Chris Carroll
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
E-mail: chris.carroll@louisiana.edu
Dr. Carroll is an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Department of Civil Engineering. His engineering education research interests include learner centered teaching environments and the use of problem, project, and competition-based learning activities at both the university and K-12 levels. His experimental research interests included reinforced and prestressed concrete structures and the progression of structural engineering throughout antiquity. He has been featured on five television documentaries in conjunction with the History, Science, and Discovery Channels with topics ranging from pyramid construction to Cold War nuclear bunkers. He graduated with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2009 and with MS and BS degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2005 and 2003, respectively.