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Welcome!

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Huihui Qi, PH.D.

Associate Teaching Professor

Principal Investigator of Engineering Pedagogy and Design Lab

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California San Diego

I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San Diego.  I earned my B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology and my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University. I teach a variety of classes in engineering mechanics, mechanial design and sustainable engineering design. Originated from keen interest in teaching, my primary research focus on engineering education. ​

Research Interests

My research focuses on Instructional and assessment design that:

1. Help engineering students to develop long-lasting and transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills; 

2. Increase students' intrinsic motivation for learning;

3. Grow students as effective self-regulated learners and their meta-cognition skills 

Learn more about our research

Awards and Honors

  • ASEE Mechanics Division Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award (2025)

  • UC San Diego Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2025)

  • ASEE Mechanics Division Best Paper Award (2023)

  • UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Best Teacher Award (2022)

  • UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Best Teacher Award (2021)

  • UC San Diego Academic Integrity Award (2021)

Recent Grants and Funding

  • UC San Diego Assessment for Advancing Equity Grant (2024-2026), $12,000, Investigating MAE Curriculum for Equity, Principal investigator

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  • NSF Grant DUE 2355177 (2023-2026), $399,953, Empowering Engineering Students to Become More Effective and Self-Regulated Learners: A Course-Integrated Intervention to Promote the Transfer of Learning Skills, Principal investigator

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  • NSF Grant DUE 2044472 (2021-2024), $298,659, Improving the Conceptual Mastery of Engineering Students in High Enrollment Engineering Courses through Oral Exams, Principal investigator

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  • Course Development and Instructional Improvement Program (CDIIP) Grant (2020-2021), $50,000, MAE 3 Redesign for Remote Learning: Development of low-cost hardware kits for hands-on laboratories, Co-PI 

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