About Family and Consumer Sciences
Lakshmi Mahadevan, Ph.D.
CTSP Assistant Professor/ Extension Specialist -Special Populations
2251 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2251
phone: (979) 845-4374
fax: (979) 845-6496
LMahadevan@ag.tamu.edu
Lakshmi (Hema) Mahadevan is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist for Special Populations. She coordinates the activities of the Career Technical Special Populations Training and Resource Education Center (CTSP Center) – a Texas Education Agency/Texas AgriLife Extension Service collaborative project. She is in charge of disseminating career and technical education (CTE) and special education-related information to teachers, educators, and other personnel in Texas concerned with serving students with special needs. In addition to fulfilling typical grant-related responsibilities, Hema aids in the design, editing, and final production of multimedia learning modules centered on addressing the critical knowledge needs of CTE teachers.
After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Chennai in India, Hema moved
to the United States to pursue her doctoral education. She has her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an
emphasis in Career Development Education from Texas A&M University. Her areas of expertise include career
assessment, post-secondary options for individuals with special needs, and multicultural career counseling. She
has taught graduate-level courses on career assessment and has skills and experiences in various areas including
educational research, bilingual education, and program evaluation.
