Biography
Wenjing Luo joined the Engineering Learning Initiatives team in July 2023 as the Teaching and Learning Specialist. Her work will help develop, implement, assess and research ELI’s expanding programs and initiatives related to teaching assistant development in the College of Engineering. Before coming to Cornell, Wenjing was a learning experience designer in an NIH-funded project where she developed a learner-centered mobile health app for adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Wenjing’s research focused primarily on exploring, designing and developing innovative learning solutions for learners in both K-12 and higher education contexts, including interdisciplinary approaches to STEM learning in elementary and middle schools and instructional design in university settings. Before starting her Ph.D., She was an English as a Second Language teacher in an urban high school in Orlando, FL. Wenjing holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida (2019) and a M.Ed. in English Language Learners from Vanderbilt University (2014).