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= Ruth Streveler = Ruth A. Streveler is a professor of engineering education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She has been affiliated with 10 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.

Early Life
Streveler attended Indiana University in Bloomington and earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology in 1975. She earned her Master's degree in Zoology from The Ohio State University in 1977. Streveler earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1993.

Research and Career
Dr. Streveler's primary research interest is understanding how students learn difficult concepts. She worked in a student support office for low-income and first-generation students at the Colorado School of Mines. Later, she ran the teaching center, which was then called the Center for Teaching Effectiveness. Streveler worked to change the name to the Center for Engineering Education. The Rigorous Research in Engineering Education (RREE) Workshops, for which she received an NSF Grant are some of Streveler's primary contributions to the field of engineering education.