About Research Engineer
The world's first online decision tree for applied research and statistics
Research Engineer is the world's first online decision tree for research questions, research designs, statistical power, statistics, databases, evidence-based medicine, psychometrics, survey design, epidemiology, diagnostic testing, and measurement of variables. The website is an amalgamation of science, technology, and the humanities. A series of questions are presented to researchers and a user-friendly "point-and-click" interface allows them to navigate through the important decisions made when planning and designing an empirical study. Research Engineer asks the correct questions and gets users to the correct research designs, measurements, statistical tests, databases, methods, and calculations.
About Eric Heidel, Ph.D., Owner and Operator of Scale, LLC
Scalë, LLC is a company started by Eric Heidel, Ph.D. in June of 2014. He is Owner and Operator of Scalë. Dr. Heidel is aProfessor of Biostatistics in the Department of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (UTGSM) in Knoxville, TN. He received his Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in May of 2012 with an Intercollegiate Graduate Minor in Statistics and a Graduate Certification in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement. He won the Yates Dissertation Fellowship, a non-service fellowship, to conduct his dissertation on the construct of isomorphism in clinical supervision and counseling. He has been published in numerous national and international peer-review journals across a wide spectrum of medical and counseling specialties and presented his research at many national and international conferences. See Dr. Heidel's curriculum vitae.
Eric worked as a Statistical and Research Design Consultant (graduate assistantship) at the UTGSM for four years before being hired as a faculty member in the Department of Surgery in June of 2012. Over the past 12 years, Eric and his colleagues in the Office of Biostatistics and Research Consultation (OBRC) created, administered, and tested a new biostatistics, research design, and epidemiology curriculum with all departments of the UTGSM.
Dr. Heidel has been inventing since 2001. He self-prosecuted his first patent in undergraduate school and it was awarded in 2004. A 50% share of the patent was sold in 2007. Eric wrote and prosecuted four provisional and non-provisional patent applications in graduate school and was awarded a second patent on software for mental health professionals. Scalë and Research Engineer (patent pending) are the culmination of years of hard work and big dreams.
When not working at UTGSM, Dr. Heidel is probably working at home or "on tour" with business, love, or fun. He loves Jesus, his Mom and Dad, his family, his loves, his friends, his job, his house, rock and roll, attending live concerts, and cool vinyl records. Life is good! Thanks again for using Research Engineer!
Eric worked as a Statistical and Research Design Consultant (graduate assistantship) at the UTGSM for four years before being hired as a faculty member in the Department of Surgery in June of 2012. Over the past 12 years, Eric and his colleagues in the Office of Biostatistics and Research Consultation (OBRC) created, administered, and tested a new biostatistics, research design, and epidemiology curriculum with all departments of the UTGSM.
Dr. Heidel has been inventing since 2001. He self-prosecuted his first patent in undergraduate school and it was awarded in 2004. A 50% share of the patent was sold in 2007. Eric wrote and prosecuted four provisional and non-provisional patent applications in graduate school and was awarded a second patent on software for mental health professionals. Scalë and Research Engineer (patent pending) are the culmination of years of hard work and big dreams.
When not working at UTGSM, Dr. Heidel is probably working at home or "on tour" with business, love, or fun. He loves Jesus, his Mom and Dad, his family, his loves, his friends, his job, his house, rock and roll, attending live concerts, and cool vinyl records. Life is good! Thanks again for using Research Engineer!