Tamara Moore is an associate professor and co-director of the STEM Education Center, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest include exploration of mathematical modeling and problem-solving in mathematics/engineering education and STEM integration as a pedagogy to increase student learning and a framework to guide curriculum and teacher development. Her teaching and research interests are centered on the integration of STEM concepts in mathematics, science, and engineering classrooms. Getting students interested in STEM fields while at the same time providing them with rich learning experiences is challenging. In order to address this challenge, my research agenda has been focused on learning and teaching problem solving and modeling through the context of engineering. I believe that providing students with realistic contexts in which to learn mathematics and science furthers their interest in these subjects. Because of my belief that teaching mathematics should be tied to a context, I have been developing curricular tools and researching professional development in this area. I am currently working on two National Science Foundation supported projects related to my research interests: the Engineering through STEM Integration project and the MEDIA Project Learning and Environmental Sciences Building