Heralded Researcher Villanueva Alarcón Named New EEd Chair

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., an associate professor, popular mentor and groundbreaking researcher at the University of Florida, has been named the new chair of the Department of Engineering Education at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

She replaces Hans van Oostrom, Ph.D., the department’s founding chair. In 2016, he created the Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education, which evolved into Department of Engineering Education (EEd).

“I want to thank Dr. Hans van Oostrom for starting and leading this department in its early years,” Villanueva Alarcón said.

She is now the first Latina to chair a Ph.D. engineering education program in the United States.

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