Matthew Wisnioski bio

MW: Matthew Wisnioski is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, where he was named a Diggs Teaching Scholar for pedagogical practices that advance, challenge, and/or unsettle existing conventions of teaching and learning, with emphasis on critical and inclusive pedagogy. His historical scholarship explores pedagogical innovations in the sciences from cold war entrepreneurship programs to The Magic School Bus. He has worked as a critical participant in engineering education as well as art and technology collaborations, including a NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. Most recently, he is co-editor of Does America Need More Innovators? (MIT 2019), a dialogue among leading champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.