Meet Teaching Assistant Professor Trevor Franklin
Trevor Franklin is an assistant teaching professor in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Prior to joining CU, Franklin was a National Science Foundation STEM Education Postdoctoral Research fellow at Cornell University where he performed engineering education research (EER). His research was specifically motivated by the goal of broadening participation in engineering and focused on analyzing the entry point to engineering higher education: the undergraduate admissions process. Franklin shifted to EER following the completion of his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University in which he studied the interactions between bacteria and engineered polymeric biointerfaces and developed a solvent-free polymer nanoparticle synthesis technique.
Franklin received his BS from Tufts University and has worked in numerous engineer and educator roles outside of academia, spanning tissue engineering, tech toys, entrepreneurship and college admissions. Lessons from each of these experiences and research on engineering education, along with a love of teaching and engineering, guide his practices in the classroom.