Natascha van Hattum-Janssen

Natascha van Hattum-Janssen works as a quality assurance officer for the Research & graduate School of Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Education Sciences (2004), specialisation in Curriculum Development and an Msc in Educational Science and Technology from the University of Twente. She has been a researcher in Engineering Education for more than 20 years and currently works on professional identity of engineering students and engineering professionals as well as professional socialisation in engineering curricula. She is founding member and former president of the Project Approaches in Engineering Education Association. Her research interests are in curriculum development, engineering education, professional identity, narrative research, project-based learning, and faculty development.