Sandra Matteucci

Teaching focus

Sandra Matteucci teaches Engineers in the Community, Engineering Ethics and Sustainability,
and Technical Writing, required courses for undergraduate engineering students. As Director of
the Engineering Communication Center, she expanded offerings to include graduate courses in
Communication Tools, Publication Writing and Presentation Skills.

Biography

Sandra began her teaching career at Washington University in 2001 after a decade in industry
roles. In 2007, she helped establish the Engineering Communication Center to assist students
and faculty with their writing concerns and publication efforts. In 2014, Sandra Matteucci
became the director of the Engineering Communication Center. She envisioned ways that
students might impact the broader community, and with funding from the Gephardt Institute, she
piloted a class entitled Destination Ferguson that has evolved into the present course,
Engineers in the Community. She encourages engineering students to seek leadership roles to
enrich communities. In 2024, Sandra moved into her current role as a Workshop Facilitator and
Presentation Coach, where she focuses on publication editing, scientific writing and grant writing.

She was co-chair of the Student Education + Curriculum Change working group for the
McKelvey Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Sandra presented ethics sessions at
WeBelong, a yearly conference for females in computer science, and participated in the Mozilla
Responsible Computing Challenge to integrate ethics within the CS curriculum.

In 2007, she received an Innovation in Teaching Award from the Engineering department; and
in 2009, she was a Gephardt Institute for Public Service grant recipient for Innovation in
Community-Based Teaching and Learning. In 2021, she was one of two recipients of the 2021
Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award in the McKelvey Engineering School at WashU.