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Michele Miller is a prominent engineering education researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, hands-on learning, and STEM outreach. Her scholarship focuses on leveraging collaborative and assistive robotic platforms — commonly known as co-robots — to engage K-12 students, particularly at the middle school level, in meaningful STEM experiences. Miller's most influential contribution, "Co-robotics hands-on activities: A gateway to engineering design and STEM learning" (2017), has garnered 74 citations, establishing her as a recognized voice in robotics-based pedagogy. Her research consistently demonstrates that placing robotics within real-world, purposeful contexts — from underwater environmental monitoring with the GUPPIE glider to human-interactive assistive robots — significantly broadens student engagement and deepens STEM learning. Beyond curriculum design, Miller has shown a sustained commitment to equity in STEM education, examining motivation factors among girls participating in summer robotics programs to better understand and address participation gaps. Her work spans program evaluation, pedagogical platform development, and broadening access to engineering design experiences, making her scholarship both practically impactful and socially meaningful for educators and researchers working to diversify and strengthen the STEM pipeline.