• B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2010
• M.Sc Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2016
• PhD Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2019

Journal Articles

Zeda Xu, Chloe Soohwa Hong, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Joshua T Gyory, Gary M Stump, Hannah Nolte, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2024, "Adaptation through Communication: Assessing Human-AI Partnership for the Design of Complex Engineering Systems", Journal of Mechanical Design, pp. 1--45

Debrina Roy, Nicole Calpin, Kathy Cheng, Alison Olechowski, Andrea P Arguelles, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2024, "Designing Together: Exploring Collaborative Dynamics of Multi-Objective Design Problems in Virtual Environments", Journal of Mechanical Design, 146, (3)

Sandeep Krishkakumar, Cynthia Letting, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2024, "If you build it, will they understand? Considerations for creating shared understanding through design artifacts", Journal of Mechanical Design, 146, (3)

Jessica Menold, Alison Olechowski, Carlye Lauff, Katherine Fu, Julie Linsey, Maria Yang, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Scarlett Rae Miller, 2024, "The Role of Design Artifacts in Design", Journal of Mechanical Design, pp. 1--5

Hannah Nolte, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Elizabeth Starkey and Christopher McComb, 2023, "Investigating the relationship between mindfulness, stress and creativity in introductory engineering design", Design Science, 9, pp. e20

Sandeep Krishnakumar, Cynthia Letting, Erin Johnson, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2023, "Make it or draw it? Investigating the communicative trade-offs between sketches and prototypes", Design Science, 9, pp. e32

Joshua T Gyory, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2023, "Independence or Interaction? Understanding the Benefits and Limitations of Nominally-Inspired and Interacting Sub-Structured Teams in a Virtual and Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Task", Journal of Mechanical Design, pp. 1--42

Joshua T Gyory, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Jay D Martin, Corey Balon, Christopher McComb, Kenneth Kotovsky and Jonathan Cagan, 2022, "Human Versus Artificial Intelligence: A Data-Driven Approach to Real-Time Process Management During Complex Engineering Design", Journal of Mechanical Design, 144, (2)

Binyang Song, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Hannah Nolte, Harshika Singh, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2022, "When Faced with Increasing Complexity: The Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Assistance for Drone Design", Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, 144, (2)

Torsten Maier, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Elizabeth Starkey, Daniel Spillane, Christopher McComb and Jessica Menold, 2022, "Comparing human and cognitive assistant facilitated brainstorming sessions", Journal of Engineering Design, 33, (4), pp. 259--283

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Joshua T Gyory, Corey Balon, Jay D Martin, Kenneth Kotovsky, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2022, "Data on the Human Versus artificial intelligence process management experiment", Data in Brief, 41, pp. 107917

Binyang Song, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Joshua T Gyory, Guanglu Zhang, Christopher McComb, Jonathan Cagan, Gary M Stump, Jay D Martin, Simon Miller and Corey Balon, 2022, "Decoding the agility of artificial intelligence-assisted human design teams", Design Studies, 79, pp. 101094

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Melissa Anne Tensa, Vincenzo Ferrero, Robert B Stone, Bryony DuPont, H Onan Demirel and Irem Y Tumer, 2022, "Uncovering Human Errors Associated With System-User Interactions Using Functional Modeling", Journal of Mechanical Design, 144, (8), pp. 081401

Guanglu Zhang, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Gary M Stump, Binyang Song, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2021, "Data on the design and operation of drones by both individuals and teams", Data in Brief, 36, pp. 107008

B Song, J T Gyory, Nicolas Soria Zuita, G M Stump, J D Martin, S W Miller, C M Balon, M A Yukish, Christopher McComb and J Cagan, 2021, "Decoding the agility of human-artificial intelligence hybrid teams in complex problem solving", Des. Stud.

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Robert B. Stone, H. Onan Demirel and Irem Y. Tumer, 2020, "Identification of Human-System Interaction Errors during Early Design Stages Using a Functional Basis Framework", ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 6, (1)

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Mitchell K. Colby, Irem Y. Tumer, Christopher Hoyle and Kagan Tumer, 2018, "Design of Complex Engineered Systems Using Multi-Agent Coordination", Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 18, (1)

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Daniel Cabrera and Paulo Guerra, 2014, "Dise\~no y Construcci\'on de un ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicule) Submarino USFQ", ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenier\'ias, 6, (1)

Conference Proceedings

Zeda Xu, Chloe Hong, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Joshua T Gyory, Gary M Stump, Hannah Nolte, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2023, "Adaptation and Challenges in Human-AI Partnership for the Design of Complex Engineering Systems", 87318, pp. V03BT03A056

Erin Johnson, Cynthia Letting, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2023, "Empathic Ability Vs. User Satisfaction: Evaluating the Role of Preference Accuracy in Engineering Design", 87349, pp. V006T06A037

Cynthia Letting, Nicole Calpin, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2023, "From Obstacles to Opportunities: How Perceptions of Psychological Safety Affect Founders’ Abilities to Identify Resources", 87349, pp. V006T06A030

Erin Johnson, Sandeep Krishnakumar, Cynthia Letting, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2023, "EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER IDENTITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SHARED UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DESIGNERS", Cambridge University Press, 3, pp. 1825--1834

Cynthia Letting, Sandeep Krishnakumar, Erin Johnson, Nicolas Soria Zuita and Jessica Menold, 2023, "INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SKETCH QUALITY ON THE SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF DESIGN DYADS", Cambridge University Press, 3, pp. 2355--2364

Joshua T Gyory, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Jay D Martin, Corey M Balon, Christopher McComb, Kenneth Kotovsky and Jonathan Cagan, 2022, "A Real-Time Artificial Intelligence Process Manager for Engineering Design", 86236, pp. V03BT03A018

Joshua T Gyory, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2022, "Comparing Nominal and Interacting Sub-Structured Teams in an Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Task", 86267, pp. V006T06A024

Hannah Nolte, Elizabeth Starkey, Christopher McComb and Nicolas Soria Zuita, 2022, "Student and Instructor Reflections on Integrating Short Mindfulness-Based Meditation Practices into a First-Year Engineering Design Course"

Binyang Song, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Hannah Nolte, Harshika Singh, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2021, "Addressing Challenges to Problem Complexity: Effectiveness of AI Assistance During the Design Process", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 6

Binyang Song, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Hannah Nolte, Harshika Singh, Jonathan Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2021, "Addressing Challenges to Problem Complexity: Effectiveness of AI Assistance During the Design Process", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 6

Torsten Maier, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Elizabeth Starkey, Daniel Spillane, Jessica Menold and Christopher McComb, 2020, "Analyzing the Characteristics of Cognitive-Assistant-Facilitated Ideation Groups", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 8

B. Song, Nicolas Soria Zuita, G. Zhang, Gary M Stump, C. Balon, S. W. Miller, Michael A Yukish, J. Cagan and Christopher McComb, 2020, "Toward hybrid teams: a platform to understand human-computer collaboration during the design of complex engineered systems", Cambridge University Press, 1, pp. 1551--1560

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Melissa Anne Tensa, Vincenzo Ferrero, Robert B. Stone, Bryony DuPont, H. Onan Demirel and Irem Y. Tumer, 2019, "An Association Rule Approach for Identifying Physical System-User Interactions and Potential Human Errors Using a Design Repository", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 7

Melissa Tensa, Katherine Edmonds, Vincenzo Ferrero, Alex Mikes, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Rob Stone and Bryony DuPont, 2019, "Toward Automated Functional Modeling: An Association Rules Approach for Mining the Relationship between Product Components and Function", Cambridge University Press, 1, (1), pp. 1713--1722

Nicolas Soria Zuita, M A Tensa, V Ferrero, R B Stone, B DuPont, O H Demirel and I Y Tumer, 2019, "An Association Rule Approach for Identifying Physical System-User Interactions and Potential Human Error Using a Design Repository", pp. 1--10

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Robert B. Stone, Onan Demirel and Irem Y. Tumer, 2018, "The Function-Human Error Design Method (FHEDM)", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 7

Nicolas Soria Zuita and Irem Y. Tumer, 2017, "A Survey: Towards Understanding Emergent Behavior in Complex Engineered Systems", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 7

Nicolas Soria Zuita, Mitchell K. Colby, Irem Y. Tumer, Christopher Hoyle and Kagan Tumer, 2016, "Design of Complex Engineering Systems Using Multiagent Coordination", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 2A-2016

Charlie Manion, Nicolas Soria Zuita, Kagan Tumer, Chris Hoyle and Irem Y. Tumer, 2016, "Designing a Self-Replicating Robotic Manufacturing Factory", American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 1B-2015

Service to Penn State:

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Committee Member, DEI Committee, January 2023

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Panelist, Panel on NTL academia positions, January 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, January 2023

Service to External Organizations: