Andrew Katz

Associate professor

Andrew Katz is an associate professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where he founded the IDEEAS Lab in 2019. He holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University.

His research asks how people in engineering reason, learn, and decide, and how AI can help researchers study those questions at scale without hiding the judgment calls along the way. The lab's work spans engineering ethics, how faculty think about teaching and assessment, student experience, sustainability, careers and the workforce, technology policy, and public perceptions of AI.

Much of the lab's methods work builds open, auditable workflows that use language models to read large bodies of text, such as the GATOS workflow for thematic analysis. His NSF CAREER project studies how engineering faculty understand generative AI and how those understandings shape what they teach. When a method works, the lab builds it into software others can use.

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