Rubaina Khan

Biography

Rubaina is an PhD student within the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is also pursuing a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education. Rubaina received her M. Sc. Degree in Computer Control and Automation from the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore in 2008. She went on to work for an MIT research institute in Singapore right after. She spent the next four years in developing navigation technologies for underwater robotics that were used to understand environmental issues in the coastal regions of Singapore.

She was always interested in the education aspect of engineering that led her to take up a post as a lecturer in Singapore Polytechnic. Rubaina spent the next five years in developing interdisciplinary engineering courses, designing activities to promote engagement and motivation in the classroom and supervise students in their final year projects mainly in robotics. This led to her thinking about issues related to engineering education and wishes to use her time at OISE to uncover the learning cultures of various disciplines and how this impacts student experience, pedagogy, and collaborative ventures.