Veronica Burrows earned her doctorate in chemical engineering in 1986, after which she joined the engineering faculty at ASU. She actively pursues research on a variety of projects in the field of applied surface science, including investigations of semiconductor surface cleaning, etching and corrosion, chemical mechanical planarization, thin film chemical sensors, and atmospheric deposition onto the surfaces of vegetation. 

She collaborates on a variety of scholarly activities in engineering education, including novel student work assessment approaches, statistical validation of learning improvement through the use of reflective writing, the use of rapid prototyping technology for generating tactile models to assist visually impaired learners, exploration of active alternatives to traditional textbooks, and development of girl-friendly hands-on engineering activities for recruiting.

She teaches at all levels in the engineering program at ASU, and is especially active in freshman engineering courses. She uses cooperative learning techniques in all of her courses.

Selected Publications:

Burrows, Veronica A., B. McNeill, N. F. Hubele and L. Bellamy. "Statistical Evidence for Enhanced Learning of Content through Reflective Journal Writing." Journal of Engineering Education (In press).

McNeill, Barry W., Lynn Bellamy and V.A. Burrows. Introduction to Engineering Design: The Workbook, 9th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Primis, 2000.

McNeill, Barry, Lynn Bellamy and Veronica Burrows. "A Quality Based Assessment Process for Student Work Products." Journal of Engineering Education 88 (1999): 485.

Day, H.C., D.R. Allee, R.D. George and V. A. Burrows. "Nanometer Scale Patterning of a Monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett Film with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope in Air." Applied Physics Letters 62 (1993): 1629.

Yano, Fumiko, V.A. Burrows, Michael N. Kozicki and Joseph Ryan. "Infrared Study of Electron Beam-Induced Reactions in Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Stearic Acid." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A11 (1993): 219.

George, R.D., A.W. Snow, P.F. McMillan, C. Chau-wen, P. Williams and V.A. Burrows. "Synthesis and Characterization of an Oligomeric Mercury-Bridged Tetracumyphenoxy Substituted Phthalocyanine." Journal of the American Chemical Society A10 (1992): 8286. 

Burrows, Veronica A. "Internal Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy for Chemical 
Analysis of Surfaces and Thin Films." Solid State Electronics (invited) 35 
(1991): 231. 

George, R.D., P.F. McMillan, V.A. Burrows and R. Hervig. "Structure and Composition of Thin Films of Peripherally Unsubstituted Phthalocyanine Deposited Using the Langmuir.” Solid Films 201 (1991): 303. 

Burrows, Veronica A. and J. Yota. "Inorganic Film Formation on Gallium Arsenide by Aqueous Acids." Thin Solid Films 193 (1990): 371.

Lenczycki, C.T. and V.A. Burrows. "A Surface Infrared Study of the Liquid Methanol-Gallium Arsenide Interface." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990): 3602.

Lenczycki, C.T. and V.A. Burrows. "Real Time Studies of Gallium Arsenide 
Anodic Oxidation." Thin Solid Films 193 (1990): 610.