2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Mr. David R. Heil David Heil & Associates, Inc. [biography]

   David Heil is president of David Heil & Associates, Inc., (DHA) and well known as an innovative educator, author, and host of the Emmy-Award winning PBS science series, Newton’s Apple. Active in promoting public understanding of science for over 30 years, he is a frequent conference and workshop presenter on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, and his firm provides research and evaluation services for a broad range of government, corporate, non-profit and university clients. Heil is a co-author of Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, and serves as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of ASEE’s K-12 Division.

2. Mr. Greg Pearson National Academy of Engineering [biography]

   Greg Pearson is a senior program officer with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. Pearson currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the public and private-sector funded study “Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda.” He is also study director for the NSF-funded project “Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action” and the project “Changing the Conversation: Building the Community,” supported by the United engineering Foundation. He was the study director for the project that resulted in publication of Standards for K-12 Engineering Education? (2010) and Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects (2009), an analysis of efforts to teach engineering to U.S. school children. He oversaw the NSF-funded project that resulted in the 2008 publication of Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering and was co-editor of the reports Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy (2006) and Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology (2002). In the late 1990s, Greg oversaw NAE and National Research Council reviews of technology education content standards developed by the International Technology Education Association.

3. Dr. Susan E. Burger David Heil & Associates, Inc. [biography]

   Susan Burger, Ed.D., leads the Research & Evaluation Division at David Heil and Associates, Inc. (DHA). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, she plans and administers evaluations and research studies for a range of non-profit, corporate, and government agency clients, including the National Science Teachers Association; the National Academy of Engineers; and a number of NSF, NIH, and NOAA-funded projects. Prior to working at DHA, Burger conducted evaluation studies in the Pacific Region and was a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Northern Colorado. Burger earned a B.A. in Psychology from Allegheny Colleg, a M.S. in Human Development from West Virginia University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in research methods from Texas Tech University.

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