Registration is in Exhibit Hall ABC of the Indiana Convention Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please visit the Information Kiosk if you have questions or need anything.

Limited WiFi is available in the Exhibit Hall. Free WiFi zones can be found in many public areas downtown, including the JW Marriott and other hotels.

Never been to Indianapolis? Check out “Just Your Speed,” a Prism feature full of tips on what to see and do around town, or ASEE’s Visit Indy site! Better yet, ask a local: Purdue’s College of Engineering and College of Technology are hosting the conference along with five other Indiana university co-hosts.

For titles, times, and locations of all workshops and other events, visit the online session locator. Or download ASEE’s new Interactive Conference Planner  mobile app. (http://asee.org/mobile/osl)

Exclusive offer: Renew your membership during the annual conference and save 5% a year for up to three years. Visit ASEE’s Information Kiosk during registration hours and one of our membership staff will process your renewal immediately. All renewing members will be automatically enrolled in a $200 gift-card drawing.

Tweeting? Use #ASEEAnnual to share thoughts on the conference and connect – and win gift cards in ASEE’s first ever Social Media Contest. Post selfies with the executive director, answer daily trivia questions and more! Follow @ASEEConferences for more information.

Also check out ASEE TV – a partnership with production company WebsEdge to create two daily programs, “Thought Leadership” and “Conference News,” highlighting best practices and innovations in engineering and engineering technology education.

 

Technical Session: Using Video in the Engineering Classroom

The ubiquity of streaming video has made it possible to use video in the classroom more easily that ever. Used effectively, video can be a powerful teaching tool for students with different learning styles. Please join Fiona Carr, International Licensing Editor, for an informative session on using video in the engineering classroom. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

This session is sponsored and presented by Alexander Street Press.

Tuesday June 17th 7-8:30am
Indiana Convention Center room 126

 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM MONDAY:

Day One kicked off with a plenary address by Purdue University president and former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, who has championed a bold expansion of the school’s engineering program. During the session, President Ken Galloway presented the 2014 ASEE President’s Award to Ioannis Miaoulis and the National Center for Technological Literacy at the Museum of Science, Boston, for the innovative use of print, broadcast, or electronic media to encourage K-12 students to pursue engineering careers and to influence public opinion about the critical role that engineering plays in today’s technology-driven society. He also recognized several national high school STEM competition winners, who later did demos of their projects at the new Focus on Innovation Pavilion sponsored by PBS/American Experience. Participants included:

• Issac Kim from North Hollywood High School, 2014 Winner of the Air Force Association Cyberpatriot Competition.
• Carmel Fiscko and Rachel Dunkin from High Tech High School in San Diego, 2013 winner of the Chairman’s Award, US FIRST Robotics Competition.
• Katelyn Sweeney from Natick High School in Massachusetts, 2013 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Grant Awardee.
• Gerald Meixiong from Lakeside High School in Georgia, 2014 winner of the Siemens Foundation Competition
• Kate Randolph and Mallory Miller from  Xavier College Preparatory School in Indiana, 2014 honorees from Engineering Programs in Community Service (EPICS), Purdue University EPICS

The Focus on Innovation Pavilion also featured the Engineering Map of America, a visual, crowd-sourced, and interactive resource created in partnership with ASEE and PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE that spotlights some of the most significant engineering, engineering education, and engineering technology education projects in the United States.

Motorsports and robotics fans cheered on student teams from as far away as Virginia’s Tidewater Community College race their autonomous vehicles around the track, Indy 500-style, in the Two-Year College Division’s annual competition.

The Focus on Exhibits Lunch and a lemonade social provided excellent opportunities to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and explore the learning technologies and other engineering education resources on display.

Monday wrapped up with the annual Awards Ceremony. Sponsored by Dassault Systèmes and Clemson University, the event recogned national and Society award winners, new ASEE Fellows, best paper authors, and the 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award recipient. Click HERE for a .pdf of the Awards Ceremony program and list of recipients.

Kenneth F. Galloway ( ASEE’s President)

President’s Award winner Ioannis Miaoulis

Purdue President Mitch Daniels

Attendees asking question of Mitch Daniels

Robotic Race Cars

 

Focus on Exhibits brunch and lemonade social

[Photos: AWARDS CEREMONY]

Walt W. Buchanan ( ASEE’s Past President

Jeffery L. Ray

  

Laura Bottomley

Rebecca Brent

Christine M. Cunningham

Patricia Hall

Jason M. Keith

Kim LaScola Needy

Hamid R. Parsaei

Jeffrey L. Ray

Mary A. Sadowski

Ann Saterbak

Noel N. Schulz

John J. Uhran, Jr.

Pablo G. Debenedetti

Jay R. Porter

Stephanie Luster-Teasley

Susan McCahan

James E. Stice

Robert J. Herrick

Maria C. Yang

John A. White

Jeffery Will

Surendra K. Gupta

Best Zone Paper

Best Paper- Pic I

Best Paper- Pic II

Best Paper- Pic III

Best Paper- Pic IV

Best Paper- Pic V

 

Best Conference Paper

WHAT’S ON TOMORROW:

The votes are in and the winner is… Catch the debut of ASEE’s new logo as well as the keynote address by Karen A. Fletcher, chief engineer and vice president of DuPont Engineering, at the  Main Plenary II, sponsored by Purdue University, 10:30 to 12:15 p.m. at the Indiana Convention Center, Sagamore Ballroom. Best paper authors and 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award winner Jeffrey Will of Valparaiso University also will be recognized.

Don’t miss the Focus on Exhibits Lunch and ASEE Divison Poster Sessions, sponsored by ASEE headquarters, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall. If there’s a booth you’ve yet to explore, this closing Exhibit Hall session will be your last chance.

Tour the Covanta Energy Plant & Resource Recovery Facility, which processes 1,175 tons of solid waste per day and supplies renewable energy to much of downtown Indianapolis, with the Energy Conversion and Conservation Division. Noon to 5:00 p.m. $35 on-site registration.

Notable Sessions

Special Panel Session: The Role of Peer Review in the Development of Engineering Education Research 8:45 to 10:15 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 121. This free ticketed event, moderated by Kacey D. Beddoes, will provide a forum for discussion, reflection, and learning about peer review in engineering education as it grows as a research field.

Engineering Interfacing with Public Policy  2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 209. Today’s complex engineering issues, such as energy systems and national security, require the technical knowledge of engineers to participate in the policy-making process. As educators, we are seeing legislatures push for limiting credit hours for engineering degrees. Join a distinguished panel that includes ASEE President Ken Galloway to discuss how engineering education could benefit from additional public policy connections,  and how engineers can participate in the public policy process.

Teaching Ethically & Teaching Ethics: A Conversation 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., JW Marriott Hotel, White River A. While some of us teach ethics, all of us run into ethical issues while teaching. Join us for a conversation about how we can face ethical challenges and how we can improve student learning about ethics.

Panel: Building a National Innovation Ecosystem 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 123. This session, moderated by Michael J. Dyrenfurth, will present a variety of perspectives associated with NSF’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program and discuss the impact it has produced on engineering education. The I-Corps™ involves a set of activities designed to foster entrepreneurship and prepare scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory, broadening the impact of select, NSF-funded, basic-research projects. Click HERE to see a YouTube presentation about I-Corps L.

Wheeling Through Treacle?! Evidence-based Practice in Engineering Education – An Interactive Session, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 202. This special session, moderated by Jane Andrews and Robin Clark, will adopt a phenomenographic approach to provide the basis for a critical debate on the value of engineering education research in shaping current and future engineering education practice and policy.

Preparing your Teaching Portfolio 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 121. This highly interactive panel session will share best practices in crafting a teaching portfolio for use in promotion/tenure evaluations.

And Don’t Miss

Simulations and Project Based Learning I 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 102. Sustainability 7:00 to 8:30 a.m, Indiana Convention Center, Room 103. Moderated by Marie C. Paretti, this session touches on economics, environmentalism, social justice, and “wicked problems in sustainable engineering.” K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 116. Presenters introduce and discuss curriculum and programming that focus on engineering design-challenge activities such as serious games to engage K-12 students in rich STEM learning. Design Across the Curriculum 8:45 to 10:15 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom 2. The Impact of Community Engagement on Students, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 201, will focus on the learning, behavioral, and retention outcomes associated with a learning-through-service pedagogy. How to be a Successful Professional in Academe & Industry, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom 1; The Best of Design in Engineering Education Division, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom 2. Panel Discussion: Investigating the Flipped Classroom & Massive Open Online Courses, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 127; and the Best Zone Paper Competition 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 236.

SPOTLIGHT ON DIVERSITY

Safe Zone/Positive Space Ally Trainings 7:00 to 8:30 a.m.; 8:45 to 10:15 a.m.; 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.; and 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center Room 238

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom 1. Ways that language, interventions, and other initiatives promote positive experiences among underrepresented undergraduate students.

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Wabash Ballroom 3

Focus on African-American and Hispanic Engineering Students’ Professional and Academic Development 8:45 to 10:15 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 212

Poster Sessions:

• Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., Indiana Convention Center Exhibit Hall. “Optimizing Linguistic Diversity in Highly Multicultural Engineering Design Teams.”
• K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., Exhibit Hall. “Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics.”
• Construction Division Poster Session 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall. “Covering Advanced Construction Management Topics with a Diverse Student Body.”

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 124.

Preparing Minority Students for Undergraduate and Graduate Research 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 212

Faculty and Gender Issues 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 205

SPOTLIGHT ON FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING

Computing in the First Year 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 127

Moderated by Krista Kecskemety and Lizzie Santiago, this session includes papers on computer-based versus pencil and paper tests, online learning, and robotics in first-year programs.

Peers and Perceptions 8:45 to 10:15 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 203

Papers in this session focus on peer mentoring, the use of peer strategies in first-year engineering courses, and student perceptions of a first-year course. Moderated by S. Patrick Walton.

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Exhibit Hall ABC. Using enrollment management to influence student quality and retention, a longitudinal study of the impact of a first-year honors engineering program, and designing a mini-golf hole are among the projects on display.

Course Delivery Methods and Issues 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 203. “You May be Able to Teach Early Classes, but Students May Not be Awake Yet!” and other papers focused on issues and methods of delivering first-year engineering courses.

Course Content and Educational Strategies 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Indiana Convention Center, Room 203. A failure case study and e-portfolios are among the papers in this session moderated by Kerry Meyers that focuses on the implementation of specific content or special tools in first-year engineering courses.

Beyond Course Content 5:45 to 7:15 p.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 203. Papers in this session focus on broader aspects of first-year education that affect how students connect with engineering, how they develop socially, how content is received, and what students take away.

SPOTLIGHT ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 114. Moderated by Bimal P. Nepal, this session includes a presentation on teaching entrepreneurship as part of a design and manufacture lab.

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 104. An in-depth presentation of key topics central to teaching and learning in entrepreneurship and engineering innovation form the core of this session.

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7 8:45 to 10:15 a.m., Indiana Convention Center, Room 123. Recent research and assessments of entrepreneurship and engineering innovation constitute the focus of this session moderated by Daniel M. Ferguson.

Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. Indiana Convention Center, Room 207. Topics will cover new approaches and new domains to expand student horizons beyond traditional chemical engineering topics and educational approaches.