Dr. Avneet Hira: Avneet Hira is an Assistant Professor and Sabet Family Dean’s Faculty fellow in the Human-Centered Engineering program at Boston College with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society. Her scholarship is motivated by the fundamental question of how engineering and technology can support people in living well in an increasingly engineered world. Her research, which is in engineering education, focuses on affordances of technology, humanistic design, and engineering epistemology. Her work is inspired by making and tinkering practices, especially those from different local knowledge systems.