2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Ms. Serah Wambui Njau [biography]

   Serah is an undergraduate student at Washington State University in the school of Chemical Engineering. She is involved in research regarding the design of low-cost DLM to enable the cleanup of syngas from a gasification reactor.

2. 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. and 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.

3. Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D. Washington State University [biography]

   Jacqueline Burgher is a graduate student at Washington State University in the Chemical Engineering Department. She received her bachelor's degree from Anderson University, worked in industry, received an MBA from Anderson University and is currently working with Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie on fabricating, optimizing, and implementing a miniaturized gasification system for use in the engineering classroom.

4. Dr. Paul B Golter http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-6899 Washington State University [biography]

   Paul B. Golter obtained an MS and PhD Washington State University and made the switch from Instructional Laboratory Supervisor to Post-Doctoral Research Associate on an engineering education project. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom.

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

   Dr. Robert Richards received the PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He then worked in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST 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 NSF Virtual Communities of Practice (VCP) program in Spring, 2013, learning research based 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 IUSE: Affordable Desktop Learning Modules to Facilitate Transformation in Undergrad¬uate Engineering Classes, High School Recruitment and Retention.

6. Prof. Cecilia Dianne Richards Washington State University [biography]

   Dr. Cecilia Richards is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. Dr. Richards received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Irvine. She has authored over 100 technical papers and proceedings and holds two patents. She has supervised the research of 26 graduate students.

7. Mr. Fanhe Shamus Meng Washington State University [biography]

   Mr. Fanhe Meng received his B.S in school of materials science and engineering in Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is working towards a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in Washington State University. He has been involved in fabricating low cost fluid experiments combining computer-aided design, 3D printing and vacuum forming since 2014. He speaks both English and Chinese.

8. Dr. Olusola O Adesope Washington State University-Pullman [biography]

   Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University, Pullman. His research is at the intersection of educational psychology, learning sciences, and instructional design and technology. His recent research focuses on the cognitive and pedagogical underpinnings of learning with computer-based multimedia resources; knowledge representation through interactive concept maps; meta-analysis of empirical research, and investigation of instructional principles and assessments in STEM.

9. Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu University of Georgia [biography]

   Nathaniel Hunsu is currently a PhD candidate of Educational Psychology at the Washington State University. He received a B.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Lagos State University, Nigeria and a M.Sc. in Project Management from University of Sunderland. He is interested in the conceptual change research in science learning. His research emphasis at the time is about how students process textual information for conceptual change in STEM education. He can be reached at nat.hunsu@wsu.edu.

10. Ms. Negar Beheshtipour http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7596-0936 WSU [biography]

    Ms. Negar Beheshtipour did her BS at Tehran University where she also taught as a teacher assistant. Now she is a PhD student in chemical engineering at Washington State University.

11. Dr. Prashanta Dutta http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-3994 Washington State University [biography]

    Prof. Prashanta Dutta has received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Texas A&M University in 2001. Since then he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. He was promoted to the rank of Associate and Full Professor in 2007 and 2013, respectively. Prof. Dutta is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He current serves as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering.

12. David B. Thiessen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4283-5914 Washington State University [biography]

    David B.Thiessen received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in
    1992 and has been at Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid
    physics, acoustics, and engineering education.

13. Ms. Amber DeAnn Graviet Washington State University [biography]

    Amber Graviet is an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student at Washington State University. Over the past year she has been working with Jacqueline Burgher, Professor Van Wie, and Dr. Paul Golter to create a biomass conversion module for student learning.

14. Dr. Arshan Nazempour Washington State University [biography]

    Arshan Nazempour completed his undergraduate study at University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran in Chemical Engineering. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering at Washington State University and working under Professor Van Wie's supervision on two projects, synergistic influences of oscillating pressure and growth factor on chondrogenesis in a novel centrifugal bioreactor and hands-on learning solution for students.

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