He served as the Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED engineering education coalition and as an NSF postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on engineering education, and he has spoken and conducted workshops nationally and internationally. As the elected chair of the Executive Council of Tau Beta Pi, he will serve as the Association President from 2002 to 2006. He is also the Chief Advisor of Clemson's chapter. Dr. Ohland received a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Religion in 1989 from Swarthmore College. He earned M.S. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Mechanical Engineering in 1991 and in Materials Engineering in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a graduate minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996.