Matthew W. Ohland

Dr. Matthew Ohland is the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has taught thousands of first-year engineering students at Purdue and earlier at Clemson University. As of August 2022, he CATME Team Tools developed under Dr. Ohland’s leadership have been used by over 1.8 million students of more than 23,000 faculty at more than 2500 institutions in 88 countries. The software and related research have been recognized with the 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, the 2013 Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award, and IEEE’s Major Education Innovation award in 2016. Dr. Ohland received the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for his leadership of that project. Dr. Ohland Co-Directs the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) with Susan Lord and Michael Prince. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida, M.S. degrees in Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Religion from Swarthmore College. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator and served as the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society.