Siqing Wei

Siqing Wei

Assistant Professor

Rayen School of Engineering

Moser Hall 2425

phone: (330) 941-3114

swei@ysu.edu

scholar.google.com/citations?user=2QO7oGcAAAAJ&hl=en

Bio

Dr. Siqing Wei is an Assistant Professor at the Youngstown State University. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education program at Purdue University as a triple boiler. He was a postdoc fellow at the University of Cincinnati under the supervision of Dr. David Reeping. His research interests span several major research topics, which are teamwork, AI in education, cultural diversity, and international and Asian/ Asian American student experiences. He utilizes innovative and cutting-edge methods, such as person-centered approaches, NLP, ML, and Social Relation Models. He studies and promotes multicultural teaming experiences to promote an inclusive and welcoming learning space for all to thrive in engineering. Particularly, he aims to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency through interventions, counseling, pedagogy, and mentoring. Siqing received the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award in 2024 from Purdue College of Engineering, the Bilsland Dissertation fellow in the 2023-24 academic year, and the 2024 FIE New Faculty Fellow Award.

Research Interests

teamwork – team dynamics, team formation, peer evaluation
engineering culture and individual culture differences
international student learning experiences
AI in education

Teaching Interests

First-year engineering; Education research methods; introduction to engineering education research; quantitative research methods