He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is involved in several National Science Foundation projects related to design, including “Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society”; “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2017. He founded and led teams to two collegiate Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championships, and has appeared on many TV shows and a movie with his chain reaction machines. He worked as a behind-the scenes engineer for season 3 of the PBS engineering design reality TV show Design Squad.