Jake Grohs
- Associate Professor of Engineering Education

Jake is an educational researcher whose interests focus on systems thinking, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and collaborative change efforts in education. His project portfolio includes a wide range of interdisciplinary and multi-party applied educational research projects which have focused on issues such as novel assessment of systems thinking competencies in engineering, healthcare, and community contexts; access to engineering education in rural communities; and research-practice collaborations to improve undergraduate engineering education quality, affordability, and student success. Jake is an NSF CAREER awardee and his external funding portfolio includes research grants in excess of $7.5M ($2.7M personal share).
Research and Scholarly Interests
systems thinking; problem solving; multi-stakeholder partnerships; community engagement & collaboration; educational environments and systems