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Nihat Kotluk

EPFL AVP-E CAPE
RLC D1 740 (Rolex Learning Center)
Station 20
1015 Lausanne

EPFL AVP-E CAPE
RLC D1 740 (Rolex Learning Center)
Station 20
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Learning Sciences, Pedagogy, Curriculum and Instruction, Engineering Education, Emotions ,  Culturally relevant STEM education, Teacher Education, Diversity and Equity.
Dr. Kotluk is a pedagogical advisor, researcher, and lecturer at the EPFL. His research focuses on pedagogy, curriculum development, instruction and evaluation, emotions, culture, and diversity in engineering (and teacher) education.
 He is dedicated to improving equity and diversity in STEM education. He has an academic background in both STEM and Learning Sciences. He has 16 years (12 years in teacher education) of teaching and research experience in STEM education. He has taught high school and undergraduate students in physics, master's students in learning sciences, and teachers in inclusive pedagogy.

"I felt there was no team to be included in": Navigating social emotions and masculinities in engineering team projects

V. KrivoshchekovN. KotlukY. FavreM. FioriE. Werlen  et al.

Journal of Engineering Education. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/jee.70026.

Exploring the emotional dimension in engineering ethics case studies: the latent emotions and associated features

N. KotlukR. Tormey

European Journal of Engineering Education. 2025. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2025.2511120.

Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli's Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

M. Zhang

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11039.

The emotional journey of computer science students in team projects: the turbulences and the interplay between the academic emotions

N. KotlukY. FavreM. FioriE. WerlenR. Tormey

2024. 52st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024-09-02 - 2024-09-05. DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14254812.

Reason and emotion in engineering ethics education

N. KotlukJ. LönngrenR. Tormey

The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education; 2024.

The impact of varying levels of compassion in ethics education case studies on students' moral reasoning

N. KotlukR. Tormey

Journal of Moral Education. 2024. DOI : 10.1080/03057240.2024.2411962.

The status of culturally relevant teacher education in the European context: A systematic review of research

N. KoukoulidisN. KotlukJ. Brown

Review of Education. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.70002.

The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

N. KotlukR. Tormey

2024. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2024.2341758.

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

R. GermanierA. DariolyN. KotlukR. Tormey

2024. EAPRIL 2023 Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK), November 22 - 24, 2023. p. 131 - 143.

Enacting Our Values - Steps Towards a More Sustainable and Inclusive SEFI Community

J. de LimaS. IsaacN. WintF. TruscottT. Kilamo

2024. 52 Conference of the European Society for Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024-09-02 - 2024-09-05. p. 2710 - 2717. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.14260979.

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

N. KotlukR. TormeyR. GermanierA. Darioly

2023.

A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

V. RamachandranC. HardebolleN. KotlukT. EbrahimiR. Riedl  et al.

2023. 2023 SEFI Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2023.

Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases

N. KotlukR. Tormey

Journal of Engineering Education. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/jee.20538.

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

S. R. IsaacN. KotlukR. Tormey

Science and engineering ethics. 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s11948-022-00426-w.

Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning

N. KotlukR. Tormey

2022. 50th Annual Conference of The European Society for Engineering Education- SEFI 2022, Barcelona, Spain, September 19-22, 2022. p. 458 - 467. DOI : 10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1124.

Courses

How people learn: Designing Learning Tools I

HUM-432

How people learn: Designing Learning Tools II

HUM-433