2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Marie C Paretti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2202-6928 Virginia Tech [biography]

   Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and a founding co-editor-in-chief of Studies in Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is PI or co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, teamwork, design, professional identity, and inclusion in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her research explores examines the ways in which engineering education supports students’ professional development in a range of contexts, with a particular focus on the school to work transition.

2. Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz University of Colorado Boulder [biography]

   Daria Kotys-Schwartz is the Director of the Idea Forge—a flexible, cross-disciplinary design space at University of Colorado Boulder. She is also the Design Center Colorado Director of Undergraduate Programs and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received B.S. and M.S degrees in mechanical engineering 
from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Kotys-Schwartz has focused her research in engineering student learning, retention, and student identity development within the context of engineering design. She is currently investigating the impact of cultural norms in an engineering classroom context, performing comparative studies between engineering education and professional design practices, examining holistic approaches to student retention, and exploring informal learning in engineering education.

3. Prof. Susannah Howe Smith College [biography]

   Susannah Howe, Ph.D. is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is invested in building the capstone design community; she is a leader in the biannual Capstone Design Conferences and the Capstone Design Hub initiative. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle and high school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials. She holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.

4. Julie Dyke Ford Ph.D. New Mexico Tech [biography]

   Dr. Julie Ford is Professor of Technical Communication (housed in the Mechanical Engineering department) at New Mexico Tech where she coordinates and teaches in the junior/senior design clinic as well as teaches graduate-level engineering communication courses. Her research involves engineering communication, technical communication pedagogy, and knowledge transfer. She has published and presented widely including work in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication and Technical Communication Quarterly. Julie has a PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from New Mexico State University, an MA in English with Technical Writing Emphasis from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a BA in English from Elon University.

5. Dr. Benjamin David Lutz http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-0942 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

   Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
   He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at
   Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in
   engineering, engineering design theory and practice; conceptual change and understanding; and schoolto-
   work transitions for new engineers. His current work explores a range of engineering education design
   contexts, including the role of power in brainstorming activities, epistemological and conceptual development
   of undergraduate learning assistants, as well as the experiences of recent engineering graduates as
   they navigate new organizational cultures.

6. Dr. Kevin Kochersberger Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [biography]

   Dr. Kochersberger has been an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2011, teaching and leading new developments in the ME capstone senior design course as well as advising graduate student research in unmanned systems. He introduced an industry-sponsored model for capstone design with a favorable IP policy, established a student machine shop and introduced global humanitarian design projects as an option for students. Prior to Virginia Tech he was an Associate Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and developed a multidisciplinary design course that included students from Business, Arts and Sciences as well as Engineering.

7. Chris Gewirtz Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [biography]

   Graduate Student at Virginia Tech. The following ideas fall under the umbrella of my interests, humanitarian engineering, tolerance of uncertainty, engineering with community - instead of for industry, empathy, critical reflection, social justice, innovation.

8. Ms. Laura Mae Rosenbauer Smith College [biography]

   Laura Rosenbauer is an engineering major and landscape studies minor at Smith College. She is a research assistant on the national and international capstone survey efforts and the development of CDHub 2.0. She is also assisting with a new research collaboration to study the transition from capstone design to work. She was a summer intern at the Urban Water Innovation Network, where she studied the thermodynamic and hydrologic properties of pavements. She is interested in a career in civil engineering.

9. Mr. Sidharth Arunkumar New Mexico Tech [biography]

   Sidharth Arunkumar is pursuing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico Tech. His key area of interest is solid mechanics, and his research involves the study of conductive layers on wind turbine blades. He has worked on aircraft internal structures and Turbine casings for MNC clients as a Design Engineer, prior to his Masters at New Mexico Tech. He has also been involved as a research assistant, in the development of composite laminates for space applications. He is currently assisting research efforts to study students' transition from School to Work.

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