University at Buffalo
After receiving his doctorate in Engineering Education from Utah State University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln conducting educational research in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Rivera-Reyes participated in an NSF-funded study to determine the abstraction threshold in electrical engineering and identify relationships between cognitive processing exhibited by students and their course outcomes. He has experience in the telecommunication industry where he worked as a Project Manager developing solutions of high-speed transmission systems for internet and mobile service enterprises. Dr. Rivera-Reyes has trained engineers and technicians through formal courses, on-the-job training, and supervising in the field. He currently serves as a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at University at Buffalo. Dr. Rivera-Reyes teaches courses on fundamentals of electric circuits for non-electrical engineering majors and conduct educational research in undergraduate electrical engineering related to problem-solving and hands-on activities in the classroom and laboratory environments. He has been collaborating on a research project to understand the psychological links between spatial visualization skills and engineering problem solving, while simultaneously establishing neurological evidence for these links. Dr. Rivera-Reyes’ long-term goals are improving laboratory hands-on activities and students’ problem-solving skills.