Paper ID #12855The Engineering Education Epistemology of a Science Teacher (RTP, Strand1)Katherine Levenick Shirey, University of Maryland, College Park Katey Shirey graduated from the University of Virginia with bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Sculp- ture. She received her master’s in secondary science education, also from Virginia. After graduation, Katey spent five years teaching Physics at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA during which she participated as a teacher liaison to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Katey is now a second-year graduate student in science education at the