Jennifer A. Lee

Background

About Jennifer A. Lee

Dr. Jennifer Lee received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1989. After designing and building scenery and properties for eight years at professional theaters around the country, Dr. Lee returned to UNCA to pursue an elementary education licensure which she obtained in 1995. Dr. Lee taught fourth and fifth grade and elementary drama for seven years at several North Carolina public schools; and, in 2004, Dr. Lee obtained her Master‘s of Education in Technology Education from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. She went on to receive her doctorate in the same program in 2008. While pursuing her doctoral degree, Dr. Lee served as a departmental teaching assistant and taught TED 115: Woods Processing Technology and TED 110: Materials and Processes Technology. In 2006, Dr. Lee won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the NCSU Technology Education Department. She is a member of Epsilon Pi Tau (EPT), the Technology Education Honor Society, and served as the club‘s president during the 2004-2005 school year. She won the EPT leadership award in 2006. She is a member of the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) as well as the Southeast Technology Educator‘s Conference (STEC). Her research interests include the issue of gender equity in technology education and other STEM fields, on-line instructional technologies, and creativity and social capital and the work of Dr. Richard Florida.