Julie Linsey is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and the director of the Innovation, Design Reasoning, Engineering Education and Methods Lab. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin and her B.S. from the University of Michigan. She received the 2010 ASEE-ERM (Education Research Methods) Apprentice Faculty award, and the 2018 DTM Best Paper Award. Her research focus is on design methods, theory, and engineering education with a particular focus on innovation and conceptual design. The goal of Dr. Linsey’s research is to discover new knowledge about how engineers think and leverage this knowledge into design methods and tools to improve engineering design.