2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Milo Koretsky Oregon State University [biography]

   Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.

2. Prof. Audrey Briggs Champagne University at Albany. State University of New York [biography]

   Champagne is Professor Emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY where she was Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice in the School of Education and in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences. Champagne is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and held membership in the American Chemical Society, the American Educational Research Association, the National Science Teachers Association, and the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST).Champagne has done cognitive research on students' understanding of physics and developed computer-based instructional programs for physics and base-10 numeration. Champagne was active in the development of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s National Science Education Standards and has been actively involved in U.S. and international activities in the assessment of science. Currently, Champagne is a courtesy faculty member at Oregon State University.

3. Dr. Laura Hirshfield University of Michigan [biography]

   Laura Hirshfield is a postdoctoral researcher with a joint appointment between Olin College of Engineering and University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin). She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. She then transitioned into the engineering education field by completing a post-doctoral appointment at Oregon State University investigating technology-aided conceptual learning. She is currently doing research on self-efficacy in project-based learning and is seeking a faculty position.

4. Mr. Erick Jacob Nefcy Oregon State University [biography]

   Erick Nefcy is a doctoral candidate in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. He is currently studying student modeling in capstone physical and virtual laboratory projects. He is interested in teaching and microprocessing, and has held multiple internships at Intel Corporation.

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