2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Prof. Robert F. Richards Washington State University [biography]

   Dr. Robert Richards received the Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He worked in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a post-doctoral Researcher before joining the faculty of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research is in thermodynamics and heat and mass transfer. Over the last five years he has become involved in developing and disseminating research-based learning methods. He was a participant in the National Science Foundation Virtual Communities of Practice (VCP) program in Spring, 2013, learning methods to instruct thermodynamics. More recently he introduced the concept of fabricating very low-cost thermal fluid experiments using 3-D printing and vacuum forming at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education in October, 2013.
   He is presently a co-PI on the NSF Improving Undergraduate Stem Education Affordable Desktop Learning Modules to Facilitate Transformation in Undergraduate Engineering Classes, High School Recruitment, and Retention.

2. Mr. Fanhe Shamus Meng Washington State University
3. Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-9715 Washington State University [biography]

   Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie did his B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and postdoctoral work at the University of Oklahoma, where he also taught as a visiting lecturer. He has been on the Washington State University faculty for 32 years and for the past 18 years has focused on innovative pedagogy research and technical research in biotechnology. His 2007-2008 Fulbright exchange to Nigeria set the stage for him to receive the Marian Smith Award, given annually to the most innovative teacher at Washington State University.

4. Mr. Franco Louis Spadoni Washington State University
5. Mr. Angelo Laury Ivory

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