# Cynthia Atman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cynthia_Atman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cynthia_Atman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Atman > Source revision: 1329910382 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American industrial engineer}} {{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=September 2024}} {{Use list-defined references|date=September 2024}} {{CS1 config|mode=cs2}} '''Cynthia J. Atman''' is an American industrial engineer focusing on [engineering education](/source/engineering_education) and [human-centered design](/source/human-centered_design). She is Mitchell T. and Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the [University of Washington](/source/University_of_Washington). ==Education and career== Atman majored in [industrial engineering](/source/industrial_engineering) at [West Virginia University](/source/West_Virginia_University), graduating in 1979. She earned a master's degree in industrial and systems engineering at [Ohio State University](/source/Ohio_State_University) in 1983, and completed a PhD in engineering and public policy at [Carnegie Mellon University](/source/Carnegie_Mellon_University) in 1990. Her dissertation, ''Network Structures as a Foundation for Risk Communication: An Investigation of Structure and Format Differences'', was supervised by [Baruch Fischhoff](/source/Baruch_Fischhoff).{{r|cv}} After postdoctoral research supported by the [American Association for the Advancement of Science](/source/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science) at the [United States Agency for International Development](/source/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development), working on engineering education in developing countries, she became an assistant professor at the [University of Pittsburgh](/source/University_of_Pittsburgh) in 1991. After being promoted to associate professor, she moved to the University of Washington Department of Industrial Engineering in 1998, and became director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching, which she continues to direct. In 2003, she was promoted to full professor and became director of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education; she remained its director until 2010. She was given the Mitchell T. and Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair in 2006, and moved from Industrial Engineering to Human-Centered Design & Engineering in 2009. From 2014 to 2018 she co-directed the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education.{{r|cv}} ==Recognition== Atman has won numerous best paper awards.{{r|cv}} She was the 2002 recipient of the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education of the [American Society for Engineering Education](/source/American_Society_for_Engineering_Education) (ASEE),{{r|carlson}} and the 2017 recipient of the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communication of the [IEEE](/source/IEEE) Professional Communication Society.{{r|goldsmith}} She was elected as a [Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science](/source/Fellow_of_the_American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science) in 2006.{{r|aaas}} She is also a Fellow of the ASEE and was a distinguished speaker for the ASEE in 2024.{{r|dsasee}} ==Book== Atman is the coauthor, with [M. Granger Morgan](/source/M._Granger_Morgan), [Baruch Fischhoff](/source/Baruch_Fischhoff), and [Ann Bostrom](/source/Ann_Bostrom), of the book ''Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002){{r|rc}} ==References== {{citation|url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic|title=Historic fellows|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|access-date=2024-09-23}} {{citation|url=https://www.asee.org/membership-and-communities/AWARDS-HONORS/Award-List/Chester-F-Carlson-Award-for-Innovation-in-Engineer|title=Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education|publisher=ASEE|access-date=2024-09-23}} {{citation|url=https://www.hcde.washington.edu/sites/hcde/files/people/docs/Atman-CV-Aug-2023.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=August 2023|access-date=2024-09-23}} {{citation|url=https://sites.asee.org/deed/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2024/06/Cindy_Atman_flyer_DEED_ERM_2024.pdf|title=Distinguished Speaker ASEE 2024: Cindy Atman|publisher=ASEE|access-date=2024-09-23}} {{citation|url=https://procomm.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ProComm2017-ProgramFINAL-WEB.pdf|contribution=2017 Awards: Goldsmith Award|page=10|title=IEEE PROCOMM 2017 International Professional Communication Conference|year=2017|publisher=IEEE|access-date=2024-09-23}} Reviews of ''Risk Communication'': *Branden B. Johnson (2002), ''Risk Analysis'', {{doi|10.1111/0272-4332.00071}} *Dietram A. Scheufele (2003), ''International Journal of Public Opinion Research'', {{doi|10.1093/ijpor/15.1.102}} *Andy Weyma (2003), ''Journal of Risk Research'', {{doi|10.1080/1366987032000047824}} ==External links== *[https://www.hcde.washington.edu/atman Home page] *{{Google Scholar id|G9cm824AAAAJ}} {{Authority control|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Atman, Cynthia}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American industrial engineers Category:American women engineers Category:Women industrial engineers Category:West Virginia University alumni Category:Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni Category:University of Pittsburgh faculty Category:University of Washington faculty Category:Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Cynthia Atman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Atman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Atman?action=history)). 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