2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Jae Hoon Lim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8167-1866 University of North Carolina, Charlotte [biography]

   Dr. Jae Hoon Lim is an Assistant Professor of Research Methods at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and teaches introductory and advanced research method courses in the College of Education. Her research interests include socio-cultural issues in mathematics education and various equity topics in STEM fields. She has served as a lead investigator for multiple international and comparative educational research and evaluation projects. She published twenty-five articles in scholarly and professional journals world-wide and authored seven book or monograph chapters.

2. Patricia A. Tolley University of North Carolina, Charlotte
3. Kimberly Warren University of North Carolina, Charlotte [biography]

   Dr. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNC, Charlotte. She conducts research in the area of geotechnical engineering with a specific interest in earth retaining structures designed with geosysnthtic (polymeric) materials. She conducts large, full-scale field experiments that are highly instrumented to monitor and analyze the behaviors of civil engineering structures. In the past few years, Dr. Warren has also received funding to conduct engineering education research with the goals of 1.) working in a multi-disciplinary team to increase the retention of engineering students at UNC, Charlotte and 2.) separately enhancing a core Geotechnical Engineering course by implementing interactive curriculum tools and creating an interactive learning environment in the classroom.

4. Peter Thomas Tkacik University of North Carolina, Charlotte [biography]

   Dr. Peter Thomas Tkacik is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Motorsports focus. His areas of research are teaching, visual based experimental methods and fluid dynamics. He has advised six Graduate Students, 38 undergraduate (UG) seniors, eight UG summer research experiences, 48 high school summer program kids, and has been the advisor for three UNC, Charlotte student race teams.

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