Rate My Professor Brooke Coley

Brooke Coley is an Associate Professor of Engineering in the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, with a dissertation on Adaptive Postural Strategies: Impact of Aging, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2003. Her career includes serving as Assistant Professor at Arizona State University Polytechnic since 2017, Associate Research Scientist at Arizona State University from 2015 to 2017, Associate Director of the Center for Diversity in Engineering at the University of Virginia from 2014 to 2015, Engineering Analyst in the Engineering Education and Centers division at the National Science Foundation from 2013 to 2014, and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation from 2011 to 2013.

Coley specializes in engineering education, with research interests encompassing racial equity in STEM, mental health and wellness in STEM, leadership in engineering, broadening participation in engineering, and engineering identity formation for underrepresented groups. She explores virtual reality as a tool for empathetic and inclusive mindsets, intersections of engineering education, mental health, and social justice, and innovations for inclusive pedagogies. She co-leads NSF-funded studies on diversity in university makerspaces and community college pathways for underrepresented engineering students. Key publications include "Academic Makerspaces in Context: An Exploratory Study of the Experiences of Black Men" (Studies in Engineering Education, 2025), "Enginovation: A Social Experiment in Innovating Together" (ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2025), "Scaffolding Student Success: Campus Services to Support Black Undergraduate Women in Engineering Programs" (Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2025), and "Toward Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Through Photovoice" (Qualitative Psychology, 2025). Awards include the Apprentice Faculty Grant from the ASEE Education and Research Methods Division (2017), the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (2011-2013), and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh (2007). She serves as Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research Advancing Racial Equity, Justice and Sociotechnical Innovation Centered in Engineering (RARE JUSTICE), has contributed to numerous NSF panels and site visits, and refereed for the Journal of Engineering Education. Coley has presented invited talks such as "Inclusive Maker Pedagogies and the Power of Story for Innovation in Engineering" at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (2017).