Dr. Kristi J. Shryock, TAMU ’97, is the Frank and Jean Raymond Foundation Inc. Endowed Associate Professor in Multidisciplinary Engineering, Affiliated Faculty in Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program, and Director of the National Academy of Engineers Grand Challenges Scholars Program at Texas A&M University. The Aggie engineer has served the university for over 25 years, first as an undergraduate student researcher and currently as a faculty member in multidisciplinary and aerospace engineering. She has received numerous teaching awards and was selected in the 2022 US Frontiers of Engineering cohort from the National Academy of Engineering.
She is regularly invited to present her work related to teaching and the engineering education field at events both nationally and internationally. Shryock has supervised numerous undergraduate and graduate students on projects related to engineering education, including active learning, engineering identity, personalized learning modules, enhanced understanding using interactive documents, team-based learning, teaching with technology, and retention of engineering students. She is currently PI or Co-PI on NSF and DoD grants totaling over $4M related to the educational experience for students. One grant, in particular, has placed the aerospace engineering department in a very elite group of only nineteen engineering departments in the nation. The NSF-sponsored project aims to revolutionize the aerospace engineering educational experience. The program goal is to change the culture of instruction and learning in a way that imparts students with knowledge, skills and confidence to look beyond traditional boundaries. Doing so will lead to a new aerospace engineering educational experience that will appeal to a more diverse student population and will strengthen the impact of Texas A&M graduates in both traditional and nontraditional fields. She is known by students and faculty as having boundless energy and enthusiasm and a true passion for helping students learn and succeed.