Jiabin Zhu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Engineering Education; Graduate Education; Students’ Cognitive Development
BIO:
Her primary research interests relate to the development of engineering students’ professional skills, the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, the cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students. She has chaired multiple projects from the Humanities and Social Science Program, Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Program and so on. She has published peer-reviewed articles in domestic and international journals in the field of engineering education. For her work on the cognitive development of Chinese engineering doctoral students in U.S. institutions, she received the 2013 Doctoral Thesis Award from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. She received the "Shanghai Pujiang Talent Award" in 2014.
Jiabin Zhu obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University. She received another M.S. in Optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. in Physics from East China Normal University.
Selected Publications:
Zhu, J., Cox M.F. (2015) Epistemological Development Profiles among Chinese Engineering Doctoral Students in U.S. Institutions: An Application of Perry’s Theory. Journal of Engineering Education 104, 345-362
Zhu, J., Li, Y., Cox, M.F., London, J., Hahn, J., and Ahn, B. (2013).Validation of a survey for graduate teaching assistants: Translating theory to practice. Journal of Engineering Education, 102, 426-443.
Zhu, J., Van der Wende, M., Jiang, X. (2016) Challenges and Strategies for Chinese Higher Education in the Age of Globalization:A Qualitative Study. Research on Education Tsinghua University 2016 (3) (In Chinese) (CSSCI indexed)
(朱佳斌,马瑞克·范德文德, 江小华. 全球化背景下中国高等教育的挑战与对策. 清华大学教育研究,2016(3),《新华文摘》数字版转载2017(1))