2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Ann F. McKenna Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus [biography]

   Ann McKenna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and was on the faculty of the Segal Design Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and social processes of design and innovation, design teaching and learning, the role of adaptive expertise in design and innovation, diffusion of educational innovations, and teaching approaches of engineering faculty. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

2. Gul E. Okudan Kremer http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8070-825X Pennsylvania State University, University Park [biography]

   Gul Kremer is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri, Rolla in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. Her research interests include multi-criteria decision analysis methods applied to improvement of products and systems and enhancing creativity in engineering design settings. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal of Engineering Design, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of IIE, ASME, and ASEE. She is also a National Research Council-U.S. AFRL Summer Faculty Fellow for the Human Effectiveness Directorate (2002 - 2004), an invited participant of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers in Engineering Education Symposium (2009), and a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2010).

3. Carolyn Plumb Montana State University [biography]

   Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects at Montana State University. She has been involved in engineering education for over 20 years.

4. Hyun Kyoung Ro Penn State University [biography]

   Hyun has been working as a graduate assistant on the Engineer of 2020 research grants that the Center for the Study of Higher Education received from the National Science Foundation.

5. Dr. Alexander Yin Pennsylvania State University, University Park [biography]

   Alexander Yin is the Senior Planning Research Associate in the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment. Prior to his current appointment, Alex was on the staff of Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education. In that position he worked for Drs. Lisa R. Lattuca and Patrick T. Terenzini as a Senior Project Associate for two NSF-funded studies of engineering education: Prototype to Production and Prototyping the Engineering of 2020. Alex has a Ph.D. in higher education and a master's in applied statistics from Penn State. He also earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.

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