Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: lgrundy@seas.upenn.edu Research Website | Publications
Lorena S. Grundy is a Practice Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She earned her BSE from Princeton University in 2017 and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, both in Chemical Engineering. Her PhD research investigated ion transport and morphology in polymer electrolytes for lithium metal batteries. After graduate school, she transitioned to engineering education research with a postdoc at Tufts University supported by the American Society for Engineering Education. At Penn, she is developing curriculum and programming in energy and sustainability for undergraduate and graduate students, combining her interests in sustainable energy technologies and engineering education.
Broadly, Professor Grundy is interested in expanding and improving undergraduate and graduate education in energy and sustainability, particularly through the implementation of active learning pedagogies. To that end, she has pursued research in student epistemologies, particularly their ideas and values about knowledge, and in instructor decision-making around pedagogical innovation. She plans to continue to explore how to teach energy and sustainability topics in an engaging and effective way and to help others do the same.
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley (2022) B.S.E.: Princeton University (2017)
2022 American Society for Engineering Education Post-doctoral Fellow 2022 ACS POLY Excellence in Graduate Research 2021 Joe Wong Award: Stanford Synchrotron Light Source User Meeting 2021 UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2020 UC Berkeley CBE Graduate Student Instructor Excellence Award 2019 UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
