Management Development Program, 2017
Harvard Institutes of Higher Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science, 2004
Dissertation: Making Meaning from a Clock: Material Artifacts and Conceptual Blending in Time-Telling Instruction
University of California, San Diego

Master of Science in Cognitive Science, 2000
Thesis: Getting the Joke: An ERP Study of Asymmetries in Semantic Processing
University of California, San Diego

Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction, 1992
Secondary English Language Arts & Foreign Language
University of Colorado at Denver

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1985
Bachelor of Arts, German major, 1985
Study abroad in Hannover & Hamburg (Germany) & Grenoble (France)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana