Erica J Hagen

Erica J. Hagen (she/they) is a passionate advocate for active learning and inclusion in her role as the Director of CEETE (the Collaboratory for Engineering Education and Teaching Excellence) in the College of Engineering. Our mission at CEETE is to partner with faculty, instructional staff, administration, and other areas on campus to support and continuously improve teaching, learning, and the student experience in the College of Engineering. CEETE is the instructional support arm of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. Erica is an Associate Director for the CIEE.

Erica is an internationally sought speaker on active and inclusive classroom practices (Brazil Fullbright Collaboration and InspirED 2024 – Amsterdam). She is an active member of the campus Instructional Technologist Group (Chair 2021). She participates in the Faculty Development Division at ASEE and BIG10 Engineering IT Conferences. She nurtured twin loves in Engineering Education and Geological Engineering as a student at UW Madison (BS ‘09, MS ‘11) and cut her teeth on blended education while designing and implementing flipped Soil Mechanics in the WisCEL space in 2011-2013.

She started a PhD in Engineering Education but did not finish the degree.

M.S. Geological Engineering (University of Wisconsin, Madison); B.S. Geological Engineering & Geology/Geophysics (University of Wisconsin, Madison)