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Rea Lavi is Lecturer and a Curriculum Designer with the New Engineering Education Transformation program for undergraduate students at the School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he leads the incorporation of 21st century skills into the program curriculum and teaches a first-year class on higher-order thinking skills & approaches to complex problem-solving. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Rea’s research interests in STEM education include the fostering and assessment of higher-order thinking skills involved in complex problem-solving, specifically systems thinking, creative thinking, and metacognition. His doctoral research received several awards, including the Zeff Fellowship for Excelling First-year Ph.D. Students and the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Fellowship for Excelling Ph.D. Students. Rea is also the inventor of the SNAP Method® for structured creative problem-solving (US & UK trademarks).
