Yi Shen is CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Research and Curation Center of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. During 2010-2011 she held a post-doctoral research position in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her research examines cyber-infrastructure for interdisciplinary scientific and engineering research, global engineering education and global competency, and social informatics. She has been participating in several NSF funded research and education projects. In her multiple lines of research, Shen assesses learning and evaluates instruction in intercultural educational practice and global engineering programs. She also investigates cross-disciplinary data preservation and integration.

In global engineering education, Shen has experience and skills in learning assessments, measurement development, historical and archival research, instructional development, and cultural interface. Her most recent work and publications examine cross-cultural competence of U.S. engineering students, with particular focus on identifying and understanding how multiple factors such as gender and prior international experience interact to enable or inhibit different developmental pathways towards increased cross-cultural competency. Such understanding helps inform the design of global programs, with implications for customized and targeted instructional strategies that acknowledge participants’ diversity and orient towards well-defined learning outcomes.

Please contact her if you have potential job opportunities and relevant projects along this line to address questions such as, what kinds of educational experience best prepare future engineers for global practice? How might global competency be best assessed and forged?