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Matthew Perkins Coppola
Associate Professor of Science Educ
Department of Teacher Education
Matthew Perkins Coppola
Associate Professor of Science Educ
Department of Teacher Education
Dr. Coppola is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Within the SOE he serves as the coordinator for the Secondary Education and Elementary STEM programs. He has served as Director of the Northeast Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NEIRSEF) since October 2016. As a mentor of teachers, Dr. Coppola draws from his ten years as a high school physics teacher in Kentucky and Tennessee, four years as director of a school system planetarium in North Carolina, and multiple summers as an instructor at camps in Tennessee and North Carolina. His current research is centered on K-5 engineering education, science fairs, and what influences high school students to choose between computer science, computer engineering, and information technology as a major. Dr. Coppola often collaborates with faculty in the department of physics and others in the College of Science and College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science.