Rubaina Khan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, teaching engineering design and teamwork processes. She is also a doctoral candidate within the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She has an M.A. in Curriculum and Pedagogy from the University of Toronto and an M. Sc. in Computer Control and Automation from the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore. She has worked at MIT developing navigation technologies for underwater robotics that were used to model and predict environmental issues in the coastal regions of Singapore. Her interest in engineering education led her to take up a position as a lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic. She spent five years developing interdisciplinary engineering design courses and designing state-of-the-art classrooms. Her current research interest lies at the intersection of engineering design education, socio-technical thinking, learning communities, and identity formation.