Niveen AbiGhannam

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Assistant Professor of Instruction

Dr. Niveen AbiGhannam is a science communication researcher and educator whose work centers around the strategic and inclusive communication of technical knowledge. More specifically, her research seeks to understand individual, organizational, and social factors that can drive or hinder public engagement with STEM behaviors. She also examines the identities of publicly engaged scientists and engineers and the meanings that they associate with their engagement experiences. On the teaching front, Dr. AbiGhannam has taught Engineering Communication at UT since 2015. Her teaching goals are for her student engineers to develop strategic communication skills that would allow them to communicate technical knowledge in a mindful and inclusive manner with different expert and non-expert audiences. Dr. AbiGhannam has a Ph.D. in Science Communication from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her doctorate, she had received degrees in Environmental Policy (M.S.) and Biology (B.S.) from The American University of Beirut.

Department
Electrical & Computer Engineering
College
Cockrell School of Engineering