I am an interdisciplinary historian of innovation, engineering, science education, and the nexus of science, engineering, art, and design (SEAD). I teach at Virginia Tech as where I am professor and director of graduate studies in Science, Technology, and Society. I hold affiliated appointments in History and Engineering Education.

I am the author of Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life and Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America, and co-editor with Eric S. Hintz and Marie Stettler Kleine of Does America Need More Innovators? I am writing a new book on The Magic School Bus and the history of science education. My public writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, IEEE Spectrum, Medium, Science, and the Washington Post.

I received my BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins, my PhD in History from Princeton, and my postdoctoral training in the Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

You can find me on the trails and roads with Blacksburg’s incredible running community.