David Knight

David Knight is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and serves as Chief of Strategy in the College of Engineering and Special Assistant to the Provost. His research aims to promote a systems view of engineering education with an explicit mission to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and inclusiveness of the field. Knight’s research tends to be at the macro-scale, leverages large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. He currently leads a National Science Foundation S-STEM Research Hub of 30 colleges and universities focused on understanding how to design, cultivate, and sustain organizational partnerships that support low-income engineering, computer science, and computing students. Knight currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Education.