Catherine Kenyon

Dr. Catherine Kenyon joined Florida Polytechnic University in August 2025 as an instructor of applied mathematics and as a faculty member for various committees within student success. Prior to this, she served as a lecturer and course coordinator with the mathematics department at Clemson University in South Carolina before moving to Florida with her husband.

In her spare time, Kenyon enjoys reading fiction and running long distances.

Awards and Honors

• The Difference Makers Project: Student-Selected Faculty Member, Clemson University, 2022

Education

• Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education, Clemson University, 2023
• M.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 2019
• B.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 2017

Expertise

• Student Motivation
• Future Time Perspective Theory
• Assessment Pedagogy
• Combinatorics
• Graph Theory

Selected Publications

• Kenyon, C.M., & Benson, L.C. (2025) Assessing What We Value: Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Calculus Exams and Connections to their Future in Engineering. Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education. 8(SI), pp. 403–426.
• Kenyon, C.M, Benson, L.C., & Bridges, W.C. (2022). First-Year Engineering Student Perceptions of Calculus Exams and Future-Oriented Motivation. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition 2022, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 1–15.
• Calkin, N.J., Davis, K., Haithcock, E., Kenyon, C.M., & Wu, S. (2021). What Newton Might Have Known: Experimental Mathematics in the Classroom. The American Mathematical Monthly. 128(9), pp.845–855.
• Bridges, W.C., Calkin, N.J., Kenyon, C.M., Saltzman, M.J. (2020). Lognormal Distributions: What Not to Expect When You’re Expecting. Communications in Statistics– Theory and Methods. 51(5), pp.1514–1521.

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