ASEE Executive Committee Meeting
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Join us in beautiful Cache Valley for a tour of Utah State University’s world-renowned Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) and state-of-the-art Electric Vehicle & Roadway (EVR) Research Facility and Test Track. At the UWRL, participants will get an up-close tour of our hydraulics modeling facilities and the 1:50 scale model of the Oroville dam spillway that was built in the wake of last year’s spillway failure. We’ll also showcase our innovative Aggie Air UAS program which is leading the conversation about remote sensing and precision agriculture. At our EVR facility, researchers are develop ... (continued)
Semi-Annual Engineering Design Graphics Division Executive Committee meeting. This meeting is open to all division members.
ASEE Finance Committee Meeting
Ticketed event: $35.00
Coordinated by the ASEE Community Engagement Division and the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center (aka Bennion Center) at the University of Utah, this project will give ASEE participants the opportunity to get an educational experience related to community engagement in addition to providing service to our host city.
Participants can volunteer for one of three project options to volunteer alongside students at the University of Utah. You can learn about and select the project option of your choice through the Bennion Center’s registration page: https://bennioncenter.org/forms/summer-saturday-service.php
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Join us for a brief tour of the University of Utah campus, including stops at Blackrock Microsystems (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLl30iLeoQ) in Research Park, an entrepreneurial dormitory with 20,000 sq. ft. of shop space (http://lassonde.utah.edu/studios/), and the USTAR Research Building (https://youtu.be/KUT31_gHM38).
1:00PM: Leave Salt Palace Convention Center heading to Research Park
1:15PM: Stop1 - Blackrock Microsystems for tour and presentation
2:00PM: Stop 2 - Presentation at Lassonde Studios
2:30PM: Stop 3 - USTAR Bldg., tour of the Nanofab and a research lab on the fourth floor ... (continued)
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Buses will depart from the south entrance of the Salt Palace Convention Center.
Visit the Utah Winter Olympics Sports Park (https://utah.com/utah-olympic-park) near picturesque Park City with the designers of the bobsled and luge track, who will discuss the design and construction of this Olympic venue.
1:00PM: Leave Salt Palace Convention Center
1:15PM: Stop 1 – Presentation at the Warnock Bldg., Room 1650, Board Room
1:45PM: Depart SLC for Park City
2:20PM: Stop 2 – Arrival at Utah Olympic Park for Bobsled Track Tour
3:30PM: Depart of SLC
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You will visit the UDOT Traffic Operations Center (https://www.coe.utah.edu/traffic-center/) where Utah Department of Transportation leaders will describe technologies in which UDOT has become a national leader: rapid bridge replacement, innovative intersections, connected/autonomous vehicles, and traffic signal management.
Buses will depart from the south entrance of the Salt Palace Convention Center
ASEE Long Range Planning
This meeting is being moved to the DEER VALLEY ROOM -
ASEE Diversity Committee Meeting
A meeting for only PIC Chairs
ASEE P-12 Committee Meeting
We’re excited to bring back the ASEE Living Wall to the Annual Conference this year!
Each year at the conference, attendees will contribute their thoughts to the Wall by writing a response to a particular question or idea.
The Wall will be preserved and displayed from year to year, growing bigger and bigger, and serving as a historical document of our conference attendees’ insights, ruminations, and reflections.
We hope you’ll take a few moments to leave your legacy on the Wall, located near the Exhibit Hall.
Join us at this special session, hosted by ASEE President Bevlee Watford, to learn what's so unique about ASEE and how you can get involved as a volunteer in our dynamic organization.
Complimentary for all attendees
Join your friends and colleagues at this special session.
A Taste of Salt Lake: This event will feature food from local restaurants, local attractions, and games, giving all a taste of what Salt Lake has to offer.
Be entertained by ...
LED Ballerinas, stilt walkers, magicians, and caricature artists!
Discover exotic birds with Tracy Aviary
Taste the local favorites: Waffle Luv, Fat Kid Mac & Cheese, Chedda Burger, and many more
NEW this year! Local beer and wine tastings with Squatters Beer and Castle Creek Moab Winery
A special event for the entire family.
2018 ASEE Board of Directors.
We’re excited to bring back the ASEE Living Wall to the Annual Conference this year!
Each year at the conference, attendees will contribute their thoughts to the Wall by writing a response to a particular question or idea.
The Wall will be preserved and displayed from year to year, growing bigger and bigger, and serving as a historical document of our conference attendees’ insights, ruminations, and reflections.
We hope you’ll take a few moments to leave your legacy on the Wall, located near the Exhibit Hall.
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
(Mats and exercise clothes are not required.)
Ticketed event: $35.00
The workshop exposes engineering educators to the concept of disruptive technologies and how they can be used with engineering students to encourage entrepreneurially minded learning (EML). Currently, the majority of the engineering curriculum focuses on development of sustaining technologies (e.g., improving performance or adding new features to products, whether or not the customer wants them). In contrast, disruptive technologies target low-end customers through products/services that are simpler, more convenient, and often less expensive than competitors'. These technologies are also extre ... (continued)
Michael J. Rust received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. During his undergraduate training, he worked for Ethicon Endo-Surgery and AtriCure, companies that specialize in the development of novel surgical devices. While completing his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Rust served as an NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellow, which allowed him to develop hands-on engineering activities for high school students. In 2009, he joined the faculty of Western New England University where he currently holds the position of A ... (continued)
Ticketed event: $20.00
Envision is a rating system administered by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) that provides a holistic framework for evaluating and rating the community, environmental, and economic life cycle impacts and benefits of all types and sizes of infrastructure projects. This framework is an exceptional resource for incorporating sustainability into engineering design projects. This workshop, created in conjunction with the Formal Engineering Education Committee of ASCE, will provide concrete examples of how Envision can be used as a teaching tool throughout civil and environmental curri ... (continued)
Cliff I. Davidson is the Thomas and Colleen Wilmot Professor of Engineering at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, where he is Director of the Environmental Engineering program. He currently holds appointments in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and at the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology. Following his PhD, he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in the Departm ... (continued)
Malay Ghose Hajra is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana. Dr. Ghose-Hajra received his doctoral degree from Kansas State University in 2001. He is a registered professional engineer in multiple states including Louisiana. Prior to joining the University, he had worked as a Senior Engineer with multiple firms in Louisiana and Texas, including Soil and Foundation Engineering and Consulting, LLC. Dr. Ghose-Hajra is the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Louisiana Section, and the Past Pr ... (continued)
Yvette E. Pearson, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE (formerly Yvette Pearson Weatherton) is Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. She serves as Chair of ASCE's Formal Engineering Education Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Committee on Sustainability, as Vice Chair of ASCE's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and represents ASCE as a Program Evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. With over twenty years of experience in engineering education, Dr. Pearson has provided leadership in efforts to ... (continued)
Ticketed event: $30.00
Prototyping is one of the most important elements of the design process. This workshop is based on empirical data from prototyping best practices in industry, in the fields of medical devices, consumer electronics, footwear, and aerospace hardware. In this workshop, we will share a review of prototyping research, a new prototyping mindset and definition, a list of prototype attributes, and several activities to help students engage in better prototyping practices. Participants will engage in a prototyping warm-up activity using Mockups (designed by the Delta Lab at Northwestern University), active ... (continued)
Carlye Lauff is a design researcher and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is obtaining her PhD in Design Theory and Methodology within the Department of Mechanical Engineering (anticipated May '18). Her research studies the role and impact of prototyping on design teams in academia and industry. She was a visiting NSF Global Research Fellow in the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University during 2017. She received her MS degree in Product Design Engineering at CU Boulder, and her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.
Daria Kotys-Schwartz is one of the co-founders and the Director of the Idea Forge—a flexible, cross-disciplinary design space at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also serves as the Design Center Colorado Director of Undergraduate Programs and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received B.S. and M.S degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Kotys-Schwartz has focused her research in engineering student learning, retention, and student identity development wi ... (continued)
Jessica Menold is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs and the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University. She studies the effect of prototypes and designer behavior on final design outcomes. Her research has focused on the creation and validation of prototyping methods and frameworks to enhance designer and product outcomes. She was previously a visiting scholar at RWTH Aachen University and received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University. She is the co-founder of two hardware startups, Amparo, a prosthetic device company and CurioSpace, an educational toy company.
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The United States Department of Labor issued its Engineering Competency Model in May 2015, highlighting Tier 1 personal competencies, defined as interpersonal skills, integrity, professionalism, initiative, adaptability and flexibility, dependability and reliability, and lifelong learning. Unlike cognitive abilities and technical skills, however, there is no validated, commonly available measure of personal competencies available for engineering skills. This workshop will introduce Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs), a method of assessing personal competencies which have been validated and one tha ... (continued)
Dr. Harold Reiter completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto, his specialty training at Princess Margaret Hospital, and his Masters in Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Aside from his radiation oncology clinical practice, he was Chair of Admissions to Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University for nine years, and Assistant Dean, Director of the Program for Educational Research and Development at McMaster for four years. He is a co-creator of the Multiple Mini-Interview as well as CASPer, and continues as an active academic in the research and development of tools measuring personal and professional characteristics.
Dr. Fern Juster, M.D. served as an associate dean of admissions for admissions at the New York Medical College for over 17 years. She was responsible for directing the Office of Admissions, reviewing thousands of applications and seating classes of high-caliber, well-rounded medical students. Dr. Juster, who is also an associate professor of clinical pediatrics, joined the faculty in 1986 and served as a chair of the Committee on Admissions since 1995. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she is active in many medical student educational activities, including serving as director for ... (continued)
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Students’ professional skills, such as teamwork, communication, and critical thinking, can be enhanced when assessment and feedback on the development of these skills are provided.
One way these skills are developed in active learning environments is through student-student interactions as they work collectively on tasks. Monitoring these interactions provides feedback to the students on the quality of the observed skill and insights for the instructor on the overall effectiveness of the learning environment.These skills may also be developed and assessed in written assignments. Evaluating stude ... (continued)
Dr. Renée Cole is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cole earned a B.A. in chemistry from Hendrix College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Oklahoma before completing a post-doctoral fellowship in chemistry education at the University of Wisconsin. She began her career at the University of Central Missouri, where she was active in both undergraduate education and teacher preparation, before moving to Iowa in 2011. She is also an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Education and a member of the American Chemical Societ ... (continued)
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Description
The workshop consists in three modules:
1. A case-based approach on our institutional experience adopting a learning analytics tool. Apart of having a conducted discussion, we want to talk about the gains and losses in doing so. Not everything is perfect.
2. Participants will have the chance to use a demo in order to identify opportunities of using this type of tool in their institution.
3. Participants will be guided through a card-sorting activity to evaluate the design and to provide feedback in order to improve the tool from a UX point of view – Does it work for me? ... (continued)
Isabel Hilliger is the Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation at the Engineering Education Division in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC). Isabel received a BEng from UC and an MA in Education Policy from Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UC-Engineering. Her research theme is the use of instruments and technological tools to analyze the skills engineering graduates need to succeed in practice.
Constanza is an assistant professor at PUC Chile's Engineering School where she directs the engineering design initiative (DILAB). She holds a PhD in Design with a focus in anthropology from NC State University. While a Fulbright grantee, she worked as a visiting researcher at the CDR (Mech. Engineering) at Stanford. As an entrepreneur and researcher, her focus is on biomedical devices and engineering education. Past experiences involve work in industry such as Cooper San Francisco, Karl Storz Endoskope and Continuum Milan.
Ticketed event: $40.00
This workshop will be divided into three parts: Conation, Creativity, and Connection. Part 1 - Conation: Dr. Claire Dancz, Kolbe™-certified consultant, will guide participants in validated Kolbe ATM Index results and how to operationalize conative diversity when working with colleagues and students. Part 2 - Creativity: Dr. Karen High will lead participants in active exploration of research and implementation of creativity in engineering courses and curricula. High and Dancz will share successful strategies and lessons learned from their reimagineered course entitled “Conation and Creativity in En ... (continued)
Karen High earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Her main technical research interests are Sustainable Process Design and Multicriteria Decision Making. Her engineering education activities include enhancing mathematics, communication skills, critical thinking and creativity in engineering students and teaching science and engineering to education professionals. Additionally, she works with elementary, middle school and high school teachers and students on engineering projects. She has worked with teac ... (continued)
Claire L. A. Dancz, Ph.D., M.ASCE is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Science Education, Department of Civil Engineering, and Clemson Online at Clemson University. She has been a Kolbe™ Certified Consultant since 2013. Her research focuses on conation, formation of teams, student work patterns, engineering communication, and hands-on online courses. She serves as external evaluator on engineering and science education research projects and initiatives. She has previously conducted mixed-methods research on approaches to integrating sustainability, National Academ ... (continued)
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Monte Carlo Simulation is a powerful technique for modeling the behavior of complex systems ranging from microelectronics to financial markets, yet can be remarkably simple to incorporate into undergraduate engineering courses. This workshop teaches participants how to use readily-available Monte Carlo Simulation software in the classroom through hands-on tutorials.
This workshop is designed for instructors from any engineering discipline who teach undergraduate courses where a Systems- or Design-Thinking approach is useful. Cross-disciplinary courses such as Engineering Economy, gateway enginee ... (continued)
Jim joined the faculty at Purdue Polytechnic in 2015 after completing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Western Michigan University, and has more than 10 years industry experience in the manufacturing sector in a variety of roles including process engineering, operations management, and technical sales. His area of expertise centers on applying OR/MS and Simulation techniques to Supply Chain & Operations Management problems, and has also conducted research in the areas of Human Factors and Work Design for evaluating time and motion efficiency in operations. Jim also holds an undergraduate IE degree and a Six Sigma Greenbelt.
Bob White has a Ph.D. in Engineering Valuation from Iowa State University (1980). He is currently a professor of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering & Engineering Management at Western Michigan University. His interests include entrepreneurial engineering, engineering economy, capital budgeting, and operations control. Dr. White is actively involved as a consultant to industry having been involved with numerous companies. Dr. White has over 20 journal publications and more than 50 articles in conference proceedings. Some of Dr. White’s journal publications include The Engineering Econom ... (continued)
Azim Houshyar has a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the
University of Florida. He is currently a Professor of Industrial and
Entrepreneurial Engineering at Western Michigan University. His interests include
simulation methodology, reliability engineering, application of operations research
to manufacturing processes, and production control.