- Phone:
- (260) 481-4130
- Email:
- essigr@pfw.edu
- Campus:
- FACET Fort Wayne

Associate Professor of First-Year Engineering and First-Year Engineering Program Coordinator for the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Teaching includes Engineering Fundamentals I and II for the First-Year Engineering Curriculum. Current research focuses on first-year engineering, student retention in engineering, women in engineering, and writing within engineering courses.