Dr. David Crismond is an Associate Professor of Science Education at the City College of New York. He received his masters degree in 1992 from MIT’s mechanical engineering department, and earned his doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1997. His career in education has included teaching in NJ public schools and at the University of Missouri, developing engineering design-related interactive multimedia materials at MIT, and creating design-oriented science curricula at TERC and Georgia Tech.

Dr. Crismond’s main research interests revolve around the issues of K-12 design cognition and pedagogy, and teacher professional development in science and pre-engineering. His doctoral thesis focused on naive, novice and expert designers doing technological investigations and redesign tasks. He has been Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded curriculum development project,Technology for Science, and an NSF-funded teacher professional development project, Design in the Classroom.Dr. Crismond has just completed a collaborative NSF-funded project with Tufts University that had grades 6-8 students using a newly developed piece of educational technology called RoboBooks while doing math-infused LEGO robotics design challenges, and some software called the Design Compass that aims to support students’ reflective thinking while designing. He is also developing under a Math Science Partnership grant three new Childhood Education courses that he will teach in Spring 2011 – Fall 2012, and which emphasize doing hands-on science and engineering activities with students grades K-6.