Dr. Cory Brozina

Dr. Cory Brozina is an associate professor and associate director of the Rayen School of Engineering at Youngstown State University. As associate director his duties include directing the First-Year Engineering Program and leading the Industrial & Systems Engineering Program as the program coordinator.

His bachelor's and master's degrees are in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. is in Engineering Education, also from Virginia Tech.

His research combines student support and success with learning analytics to develop better support mechanisms for a wide range of students including first-year and non-traditional engineering students. Dr. Brozina currently has three NSF-funded projects totaling over $1.3M, which includes the largest NSF award at YSU of $1M.

• Research Focus

  Dr. Brozina's research focuses on student support and success for engineering students. His work combines a range of quantitative and qualitative methods.

• Expertise

  His research expertise includes large data quantitative analyses, survey analysis, structural equation modeling, along with various qualitative methods.

  You can read more about his NSF grants from the links below:

  Developing and Encouraging Engineering Professionals within a Commuter Student Population
  
  Studying Student Support and Success Experiences to Improve Persistence of Nontraditional Students in Engineering
  
  Collaborative EAGER: Novel Ethnographic Investigations of Engineering Workplaces to Advance Theory and Research Methods for Preparing the Future Workforce