
PhD Student
Mitch Gerhardt
Mitch is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Engineering Education and a master's student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, with prior experience as a software engineer before returning to academia. His research concerns what and how students think about engineering knowledge.
Education
- 2nd year PhD Student in ENGE
- Master's in Computer Science
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Selected Publications
- Automated Analysis of Knowledge Types in Computer Science Textbooks: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Understanding Epistemic Climate
Mitchell Gerhardt, Andrew Katz · Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition · 2025
- Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching
Andrew Katz, Mitch Gerhardt, Michelle Soledad · International Journal of Qualitative Methods · 2024
- Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching
A. Katz, M. Gerhardt, M. Soledad · arXiv preprint · 2024