Benjamin Call

Some engineers dream of finding their work on the list of the world’s greatest engineering achievements. Others set their sights on a different path: improving engineering education. Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow Benjamin Call left a well-paying industry job to do just that; to improve engineering curriculum through research at Utah State University.

Call, who is working to complete his third USU degree, seeks to improve engineering education by finding better ways to help students strengthen their spatial ability.

“(It’s been) known for decades that people with high spatial ability are good at engineering and mechanics and things like that, but no one’s looked at what part of the curriculum depends on that,” he said.