Education
MS in Human Factors Engineering with a minor in Engineering Education, Tufts University
Biography
Kayli Battel is a Master’s student in Human Factors Engineering at the Tufts University School of Engineering, set to graduate in 2025. She earned her undergraduate degree, also from Tufts, in Human Factors Engineering with a minor in Engineering Education in 2024. Kayli’s passion for STEM education started in 2018 when she co-founded Sisters in STEM (sistersinstem.net), an ongoing initiative in Scottsdale, AZ to introduce young girls to STEM through a recurring hands-on activity fair. Since then, Sisters in STEM’s high school leaders have launched spinoff initiatives, including cyber safety lessons for 3rd-6th graders in the classroom, monthly virtual experiments with children across the Phoenix area (during the COVID-19 pandemic), a SiS Roadshow taking lessons on the road to elementary schools in the area, three academic papers published at conferences, and Kayli’s children’s book on cyber safety education, Jada Saves the Day.
In addition to her studies, Kayli works as an Engineering Psychologist Student Trainee at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, where she conducts transportation research at the federal level, with current projects involving the FRA, FTA, and FAA. Outside of this work, her personal research focuses on human factors heuristics and dashboard design for semi-autonomous vehicles.