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. Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-4447 University of Washington [biography]

   Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development

3. Prof. Simone E Volet Murdoch University, Perth, Australia [biography]

   Simone Volet is Professor of Educational Psychology at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. She obtained a Licence ès Sciences de l’Education at the University of Geneva, and a PhD from Murdoch University. She has been engaged in research on learning, motivation and cultural issues in higher education since the early 1990s and has led many major projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australian National Training Authority. Her research combines situative and socio-cognitive approaches to understand high-level cognitive and metacognitive engagement, and social regulation in real time collaborative learning. Her work has involved the development of new ways of analyzing metacognitive co-regulation, and has led to the design of field interventions that foster university students’ deep-level engagement in collaborative learning in several fields of STEM education.

4. Prof. Marja M.S. Vauras University of Turku [biography]

   Marja Vauras, PhD, Professor in Education (teaching and learning), Dept. of Teacher Ed., and Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Turku. Her research field is developmental and educational psychology, particularly: the longitudinal development and interplay of cognition, motivation and metacognition, as well as social well-being and social competence, and CSL in remediation, educational interventions and learning environments. Her work has long been focused on sub-performing students, who experience multiple cognitive and motivational problems in school, with the emphasis on interactive, long-term development of cognition and motivation in social interaction. Her research aims at expanding the analysis on complex developmental - learning-related - interactions between cognitive and metacognitive competence, motivation, emotion and social interaction. She is further studying the role of both school- and family-related, social factors contributing to learning and motivational-emotional processes, particularly, in relation to learning difficulties as well as excellence in learning. Her recent work focuses on teacher scaffolding and interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation of students in different domains (reading, mathematics, natural sciences, and veterinary sciences) at different educational levels (early education, primary and high school, university) and in different cultures (Australia, Finland, Sweden, US).

5. Dr. Debra May Friedrichsen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6491-888X Unaffiliated [biography]

   Debra Gilbuena has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial experience including a position in sensor development. Sensor development is also an area in which she holds a patent. She has engineering education research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories and the diffusion of educational interventions and practices.

6. Mr. Gavin Tierney University of Washington [biography]

   Gavin Tierney is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Washington. He received his B.A. from The University of Puget Sound and his M.A. from The University of Denver. He is currently a LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments) Center Research Assistant on The Knowledge In Action Project. He is also an Early Career Researcher, working in collaboration with Oregon State University and The University of Turku in Finland, looking at engagement across virtual and project-based environments. His research focuses on engagement and identity development and the role of designed and alternative environments on these processes. His dissertation focuses on students entering into alternative high schools and explores students’ re-engagement in school and re-negotiation of their identities as learners.

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