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Avneet Hira is an Assistant Professor and Sabet Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Department of Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Teaching, Curriculum and Society at Boston College. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. Her research is in the field of engineering education with a focus on educational technologies and humanistic design. She specializes in community-based participatory design methods and working in informal educational environments with youth and families, for which she was awarded an NSF CAREER award in 2023. Her work is funded by the NSF Directorates of STEM Education and Engineering as well as local and national private foundations. She is also afounding faculty member of the Human-Centered Engineering B.S. program at Boston College, which emphasizes social responsibility and student formation in engineering in the context of a liberal arts education. Prior to Boston College, she worked as a Research Scientist at MIT on the XQ superschool project, bringing project-based learning to high schools across the country, and as the educational content program manager at MathWorks. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University.