Carol Cobb joined Santa Clara University as a Quarterly Lecturer in 2023. She earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. She is an M.S. graduate student of eLearning at California State University, East Bay, expected to graduate in 2025.
Her research interests are focused on human learning and effective online teaching methods, as part of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Ms. Cobb's professional experience includes more than twenty years in the industry, working for large multinational corporations and small cutting-edge start-ups. She held many roles, from compatibility validation engineer to salesperson, to marketing manager, and technical assistant, and to a Vice President. She brings her real-world experience into the classroom and her student advising.
- ENGR 303: Gender and Engineering
M. E. Abbott and H. S. Stuart, “Characterizing the Force-Motion Tradeoff in Body-Powered Transmission Design,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 31, pp. 3064–3074, 2023.
A. I. W. McPherson, M. E. Abbott, W. White, Y. Gloumakov, and H. S. Stuart, “A Wearable Testbed for Studying Variable Transmission in Body-Powered Prosthetic Gripping,” in 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 1–6, Sep. 2023.
W. O. Torres, M. E. Abbott, Y. Wang, and H. S. Stuart, “Skin Sensitivity Assessment Using Smartphone Haptic Feedback,” IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 4, pp. 216–221, 2023.
M. E. Abbott, A. I. W. McPherson, W. O. Torres, K. Adachi, and H. S. Stuart, “Effect of variable transmission on body-powered prosthetic grasping,” in 2022 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 1–6, Jul. 2022.
M. E. Abbott, J. D. Fajardo, H. W. Lim, and H. S. Stuart, “Kinesthetic feedback improves grasp performance in cable-driven prostheses,” in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 10551–10557, May 2021.
A. I. W. McPherson, V. V. Patel, P. R. Downey, A. A. Alvi, M. E. Abbott, and H. S. Stuart, “Motor-Augmented Wrist-Driven Orthosis: Flexible Grasp Assistance for People with Spinal Cord Injury,” in 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 4936–4940, Jul. 2020.