Shawn Jordan is an associate professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education.
Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017.
Jordan co-developed the STEAM Labs™ program to engage middle and high school students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts through designing and building chain reaction machines. He founded and led teams to two collegiate Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championships, and has appeared on many TV shows (including Modern Marvels on The History Channel and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC) and a movie with his chain reaction machines. He serves on the Board of the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, AZ, and worked as a behind-the scenes engineer for season 3 of the PBS engineering design reality TV show "Design Squad." He also held the Guinness World Record for the largest number of steps – 125 – in a working Rube Goldberg machine.
Context in engineering design education, the Maker community, culturally relevant pedagogy, virtual teams, K-12 engineering education, entrepreneurship, cross-disciplinarity, creativity, innovation, and human-centered design
STEAM Labs™ Center for K-12 Research and Engagement
Selected Journal Publications
Jordan, S. S., Pereira, N., & Dalrymple, O. (2016). The impact of design swapping on student design sketch quality. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(5).
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2016). Additive innovation in design thinking and making. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3).
Jordan, S., & Adams, R. (2016). Perceptions of success in virtual cross-disciplinary design teams in large multi-national corporations. CoDesign, 12(3).
Oplinger, J., Lande, M., Jordan, S., & Camarena, L. (2016). Making leaders: Leadership characteristics of makers and engineers in the maker community. American Journal of Engineering Education, 7(2).
Selected Conference Proceedings
Horton, P., Jordan, S., Weiner, S., & Lande, M. (2017). Project-Based Learning Among Engineering Students During Short-Form Hackathon Events. Abstract accepted to the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
Jordan, S., White, K., Anderson, A., Betoney, C., Pangan, T., & Foster, C. (2017). Culturally-relevant engineering design curriculum for the Navajo Nation. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2017). Young Makers becoming the engineers of the future and implications. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
La Place, C., Jordan, S., Lande, M., & Weiner, S. (2017). Engineering students rapidly learning at hackathon events. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
Larson, J., Lande, M., Jordan, S., & Weiner, S. (2017). Makers as adaptive experts-in-training: How Maker design practices could lead to the engineers of the future. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
Mabey, M., Jordan, S., Lande, M., & Weiner, S. (2017). A comparison of Maker and Entrepreneurial Characteristics. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
Weiner, S., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2017). Making identities: Understanding the factors that lead young adults to identify with the Maker Movement. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
Weiner, S., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2017). The Engineer of 2020, in the Making: Understanding how young adults develop Maker identities and the implications for education reform. In Proceedings of the Mudd Design Workshop X: Design and the Future of the Engineer of 2020, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
Lande, M., Jordan, S., & Weiner, S. (2017). Making people and projects: Implications for designing Making-based learning experiences. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest (ASEE PSW) Section Meeting Conference, Tempe, AZ.
McKenna, A., Kellam, N., Lande, M., Brunhaver, S., Jordan, S., Bekki, J., Carberry, A., & London, J. (2016). Instigating a revolution of additive innovation: An educational ecosystem of Making and risk taking. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
Wigner, A., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2016). How can Maker skills fit in with accreditation demands for undergraduate engineering programs? In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
Mabey, M., Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2016). Young Makers compare science fairs and Maker Faires. (2016). In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2016). What do Young Makers learn? In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
Larson, J., Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2016). Supporting K-12 student self-direction with a Maker family ecosystem. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
Dickens, M., Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2016). Parents and roles in informal Making education: Informing and implications for Making in museums. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA.
McKenna, A., Kellam, N., Lande, M., Brunhaver, S., Jordan, S., Carberry, A., Bekki, J., & London, J. (2016). Capturing the ecosystem and culture to support risk-taking and additive innovation: Laying the groundwork. Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2015). Is the engineer of 2035 a maker? In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 1053-1054), El Paso, TX.
Jordan, S. (2015). CAREER: Engineering design across Navajo culture, community, and society. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Douglas, E., Jordan, S., Lande, M., & Bumbaco, A. (2015). Artifact elicitation as a method of qualitative inquiry in engineering education. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Foster, C., Wigner, A., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2015). Welcome to the maker movement: Parallel education pathways of adult makers. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Foster, C., Dickens, M., Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2015). Learning from toy makers in the field to inform teaching engineering design in the classroom. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Heiman, A., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2015). What is making? What is engineering? In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Meadows, L., Sekaquaptewa, D., Paretti, M., Pawley, A., Jordan, S., Chachra, D., & Minerick, A. (2015). Interactive panel: Improving the experiences of marginalized students on engineering design teams. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Oplinger, J., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2015). Leadership characteristics within the Making community. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2015). Additive innovation in design thinking and making. In Proceedings of the Mudd Design Workshop IX: Design Thinking in Design Education (pp. 132-140), Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
Pereira, N., Jordan, S., & Dalrymple, O. (2015). Lessons from teaching engineering design in a summer camp for high-ability students: A chain re-action research study. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
27.Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2014). Might Young Makers be the engineers of the future? In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 1408-1411), Madrid, Spain.
Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2014). Making it together, locally: A Making community learning ecology in the Southwest. In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 2448-2454), Madrid, Spain.
Chavela Guerra, R., Smith, K., McKenna, A., Swan, C., Korte, R., Jordan, S., Lande, M., & MacNeal, R. (2014). Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based Entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education. In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 2997-3001), Madrid, Spain.
Foster, C., & Jordan, S. (2014). A philosophy of learning engineering and a Native American philosophy of learning; An analysis for congruency. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Foster, C., Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2014). An ethos of sharing in the Maker community. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Lande, M., & Jordan, S. (2014). Methods for examining the educational pathways of adult Makers. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
McCall, S., Dalrymple, O., & Jordan, S. (2014). Curriculum exchange: Teaching energy concepts using chain reaction machines. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
McCall, S., Taylor, R., Dalrymple, O., & Jordan, S. (2014). Teaching energy concepts using chain reaction machines. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Oplinger, J., Heiman, A., Dickens, M., Foster, C., Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2014). Making and engineering: Understanding similarities and differences. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Pawley, A., Carberry, A., Cardella, M., Carnasciali, M., Daly, S., Gorlewicz, J., Herman, G., Hynes, M., Jordan, S., Kellam, N., Lande, M., Verleger, M., & Yang, D. (2014). The PEER Collaborative: Supporting engineering education research faculty with near-peer mentoring unconference workshops. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Jordan, S., Cardella, M., Lande, M., & Ali, H. (2013). Out of their world: Using alien-centered design for teaching empathy in undergraduate design courses. In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 907-913), Oklahoma City, OK.
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2013) Should Makers be the engineers of the future? In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (pp. 815-817), Oklahoma City, OK.
Lande, M., Jordan, S., & Nelson, J. (2013). Defining Makers making: Emergent practice and emergent meaning. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA.
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2012). Practicing needs-based, user-centered design for electrical engineering project course innovation. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, TX.
Jordan, S., Dalrymple, O., Pereira, N., Astatke, Y., & Fletcher, J. D. (2012). Design swapping as a method to improve design documentation. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, TX.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 314 | Embedded Sys Design Project II |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 592 | Research |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 598 | Special Topics |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 304 | Embedded Sys Design Project I |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
DCI 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 792 | Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 314 | Embedded Sys Design Project II |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 671 | Application of Qual Methods |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 304 | Embedded Sys Design Project I |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
DCI 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
DCI 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 792 | Research |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 314 | Embedded Sys Design Project II |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ASU 101-TPS | The ASU Experience |
EGR 304 | Embedded Sys Design Project I |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
DCI 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 314 | Electrical Systems Project II |
EGR 315 | Robotic Systems Project II |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 304 | Electrical Systems Project I |
EGR 305 | Robotics Systems Project I |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
EGR 565 | Qualitative Meth in Eng Ed |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 593 | Applied Project |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
EGR 792 | Research |
EGR 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 599 | Thesis |
Invited Keynotes
Invited Talks
Associate Editor, Studies in Engineering Education (2019 - present)
Associate Professor, The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University (ASU), Mesa, Arizona, 5/2017 – present
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, King’s College London, United Kingdom, 1/2019 - 6/2019
Visiting Academic, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom, 1/2019 - 6/2019
Adjunct Faculty, Storytelling Institute, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 8/2018 - 12/2018.
Assistant Professor, The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University (ASU), Mesa, Arizona, 1/2011 – 5/2017
Professional Service
Advances in Engineering Education (AEE) Reviewer
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Reviewer
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Reviewer
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Division Director
CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts Reviewer
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) 2018 Program Committee Member and Makerspace Working Group Chair
IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference Reviewer
IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Technical Program Committee Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Education Journal Reviewer
International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) Reviewer
International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace (IJESP) Reviewer
Journal of American Indian Education Reviewer
Journal of Engineering Education Reviewer
Journal of Online Engineering Education Reviewer
LEARNing Landscapes Journal Reviewer
National Science Foundation Grant Proposal Reviewer
National Science Foundation Maker Summit Planning Committee Member
PEER Collaborative National Workshop Planning Committee Member and Facilitator
Arizona State University Service
The Polytechnic School Engineering Education and Systems Design Faculty Search Committee
The Polytechnic School Engineering Education and Systems Design Ph.D. Executive Committee
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Dean’s Sabbatical Advisory Council
ASU Committee for Academic Freedom and Tenure
Provost Native American Advisory Council (P-NAAC)
The Polytechnic School Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
The Polytechnic School Engineering Education Faculty Search Committee
School for the Future of Innovation in Society Public Science and Maker Summit Planning Committee
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Executive Committee
Polytechnic School Director Faculty Search Committee
College of Technology & Innovation Collaboratory Council
Engineering Education Enhancement (EEE) Club
Department of Engineering Energy Systems Faculty Search Committee
Engineering and Engineering Technology Merger – Electrical Program Subcommittee
College of Technology and Innovation K-12 Task Force
i.d.e.a. Museum Board of Directors, Mesa, AZ, 3/2014 - present
Intern, Digital Systems Department, Shure Incorporated, Niles, Illinois, 5/2006 – 8/2006
Intern, DSP-Embedded Controls Department, Shure Incorporated, Niles, Illinois, 5/2004 – 8/2004
Technical Intern 4, Optical Networking Group, Tellabs, Burlington, Massachusetts, 5/2001 – 8/2001
Technical Intern 3, TITAN 5500 Product Development, Tellabs, Lisle, Illinois, 5/2000 – 8/2000
Summer Technical Intern, Raytheon Systems Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 5/1999 – 8/1999 and 5/1998 – 8/1998