The registration desk in the Columbus Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A&B, is open Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Need assistance on site? Visit the Info Kiosk in the foyer of Exhibit Hall A&B. Or you can text us at 614-219-9270 (text rates apply) or email infokiosk@asee.org during registration hours.

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Complimentary Wi-Fi is available in all public areas of the Convention Center (FreeInternet) except for the Battelle Ballroom and Exhibit Hall, and in the Hyatt Regency’s meeting rooms and lobby (HyattMR, password ASEE17). Click HERE for instructions. Please note that this service is provided by the facilities and ASEE cannot alter or control the quality or reliability. All the major cellular phone services are supported in both buildings, should you wish to use your device as a mobile hot spot.

A Speaker Ready Room is available for presentation preparation in Exhibit Hall A&B, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The speaker ready room will have a computer, LCD projector, and screen for adding last-minute updates or reviewing your presentation. No Internet access is provided.

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How Tweet! Win gift cards in ASEE’s Social Media Contests. Post selfies with President Louis Martin-Vega, answer daily trivia questions, take the daily steps challenge, and more! Use #ASEEAnnual to share thoughts on the conference and connect. Follow @ASEEConferences for more information.

While you’re around the Exhibit Hall, stop by ASEE’s Living Wall and jot down your reflections to share with future conference attendees.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM MONDAY:

The day launched with a plenary address by astrophysicist France A. Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation and the subject of Prism’s February cover story, opening remarks by Caroline C. Whitacre, senior vice president for research at The Ohio State University, and presentation of the ASEE President’s Award to the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. The award was received by engineering dean Yannis C. Yortsos.

President Louis Martin-Vega also recognized several national high school STEM competition winners, who later fielded questions and demonstrated their projects.

Participants included:

• Ashton Cofer, a TED Talk speaker and student at Columbus Academy in Gahanna, Ohio, and Julie Bray, a student at Gahanna Lincoln High School in New Albany, Ohio, winners of the 2016 FIRST Global Innovation Award. 

• Alexandra Delazio, 2017 University of Pittsburgh bioengineering graduate and winner of the Society of Women Engineers WE16 Collegiate Technical Poster Competition.

• Nizhoni Tallas, Navajo Preparatory School, Chinle, Arizona, winner of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Science Fair.

Micro-G Next Team, Los Medanos College, Brentwood, California.

Robotics fans cheered on student teams in the Two-Year College Division’s annual competition,  in which the autonomous robots they designed and built had to  transport colored barrels between “Spain” to each of six “islands” visited by Christopher Columbus in four trials.

The Focus on Exhibits Brunch and summertime 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.

Other highlights included flying demonstrations and virtual reality experiences in the Drone Zone, and ASEE’s Living Wall.

 

WHAT’S ON TOMORROW, TUESDAY, JUNE 27

Start your day with a sunrise group walk, run, or gentle yoga stretch.

Tuesday’s Plenary gets underway from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in the Columbus Convention Center’s Battelle Grand Ballroom with a keynote address by Aimee Kennedy, Battelle’s Senior Vice President of Education, STEM Learning, and Philanthropy, whose work includes efforts to foster innovative educational environments that prepare students for tomorrow’s career and college environment, such as the STEM-focused Metro Early College High School, where she was chief academic officer, and schools in the national STEMx Learning Network.

ASEE’s 2016 Best Overall PIC, Zone, and Diversity Paper authors and the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Award winner, Amelito Enriquez of Cañada College, also will be recognized.

Then head over to the Exhibit Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the Focus on Exhibits Lunch and ASEE Divison Poster Sessions, sponsored by Northrop Grumman. If there’s a booth you’ve yet to explore, this closing Exhibit Hall session will be your last chance. Also cheer on the student teams in the FIRST Robotics competition – back by popular demand from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall.

If you have time, drop by ASEE’s editorial table in the atrium to see the range of publications – from Prism to the Journal of Engineering Education to K-12 outreach materials – and chat with the editors.

TIMELY TOPICS

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education Toward Attaining U.N. Sustainable Development Goals 8:00 a.n. to 9:30 a.m., Room B241 Columbus Convention Center

Strategies for incorporating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in engineering curricula and programs is the focus of this panel moderated by Yvette Pearson Weatherton P.E. and Claire L. A. Dancz.

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room A113, Columbus Convention Center

Hackathon events, a classification system for higher education maker spaces, and other topics will be covered in this Design in Engineering Education Division session moderated by Shawn S. Jordan.

Make It!  11:30 to 1:00 p.m., Exhibit Hall A&B

Join moderator and professional engineer Hugh Jack from Western Carolina University for this interactive session. Presentations include: Security Gadget for Tirumala Pilgrims; Taking Soft Robotics from the Laboratory to the Classroom; Generation of Electricity from Bacteria Present in Waste Water; and Use of Natural Products in Manufacturing Engineering Education at a Minority-based Land-grant Institution.

Public Policy Challenges for Colleges of Engineering 1: 30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Room A114, Columbus Convention Center

Join former ASEE President Kenneth Galloway and members of the Engineering Deans Council’s public policy committee for this timely panel discussion of national issues facing colleges of engineering and the challenges of advocating for engineering to the U.S. Congress.

FOCUS ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

What Engineering Educators Want You to Know about Teaching and Classroom Research 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room A111 Columbus Convention Center

Pat Ko moderates this informative panel featuring Michael Loui, Purdue University professor of engineering education and editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, and Stacy Klein-Gardner, Director of the Center for STEM Education for Girls at the Harpeth Hall School and Adjoint Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University.

As a result of this technical session, moderated by Katy Luchini Colbry, participants will be able to approach the “care and keeping” of their graduate students from a literature-based and scholarly perspective.

Strategies for Success and Sanity for Academic Mothers 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Room A211, Columbus Convention Center

Rowan University’s Kaitlin Mallouk moderates this panel on the challenges and opportunities panelists encountered while raising children and trying to succeed in academia, with concrete, achievable strategies that helped them overcome hurdles.

Tips & Tricks for Assessing Student Performance 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Room C170, Columbus Convention Center.

“Homework is So 20th Century!” is among the papers being presented at this New Engineering Educators Division panel moderated by Kleio Avrithi and Ella Lee Ingram.

CORPORATE CONNECTIONS

Are engineering schools producing the graduates today’s industry needs? Closer ties with companies, using concept mapping to help small firms retain the special knowledge acquired by longtime employees, and developing curricula with business in mind are themes explored in these Industry Day sessions:

Industry Day Breakfast 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Delaware B, Hyatt Regency Columbus

Join the Corporate Member Council and College-Industry Partnerships Division for this kick-off breakfast. (Free ticketed event.)

Closing the Gap: Industry Perspectives on Undergraduate Preparation for Practice 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Room A111, Columbus Convention Center

College-Industry Partnerships Technical Session Tuesday, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., Room B242-243, Columbus Convention Center

STEM Education Redefined and a look at the impact of industry-sponsored research on faculy research experiences are among the topics covered in this technical session.

PreK-12 ENGINEERING

Fundamental Research in Engineering Education 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room C172, Columbus Convention Center.

Andrea Carneal Burrows moderates this session that includes papers on such topics as using the engineering design process to increase the science and math content knowledge of middle school teachers, and on elementary students’ reflection on failure within and outside of the engineering design process.

Sustainability and Hands-On Activities 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room B143, Columbus Convention Center

The effects of global warming and biological fuel cells are among the papers in this Energy Conversion and Conservation Division session moderated by Mary Ann Hellrigel and Masoud Naghedolfeizi.

Techniques and Programs for Promoting Engineering Education 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room B244-245, Columbus Convention Center

Liesl Hotaling moderates this panel on programs which explore techniques to engage PreK-12 students with engineering concepts and ways of thinking.

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session 11;30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Exhibit Hall A&B, Columbus Convention Center

A bike-lane traffic activity for high school students, introducing pre-service teachers to engineering, and applied creativity in a STEAM course are among the posters being presented.

Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Room B244-245, Columbus Convention Center

Liesl Hotaling moderates this panel covering topics from the impact of dual-enrollment courses on female high school students’ pursuit of engineering to parent-child conversations about engineering. She moderates a second pathways panel from 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. in room C172.

Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education 3:15 p./m. to 4:45 p.m., Room C162B, Columbus Convention Center

From Professor to Teacher: Who Knows What Engineering Is Best in the K-12 Classroom is the provocative title of one paper in this session moderated by Andrea Carneal Burrows.

ACTION ON DIVERSITY

Action on Diversity: Supporting Students at Multiple Levels 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Delaware B, Hyatt Regency Columbus

This session, moderated by Kristen P. Constant, focuses on papers that relate to student perceptions and programmatic supports for diversity and inclusion, including a report on a mechanical engineering department climate survey.

Action on Diversity – Disability Experiences & Empathy 1:30 p.m., to 3:00 p.m., Delaware B, Hyatt Regency Columbus

This session features papers on issues related to a broad range of disabilities and pedagogical, curricular, and institutional approaches to supporting students with disabilities, and to using empathy in K-12 design experiences.

Teamwork Practices  to Increase Gender Inclusivity 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Room A112, Columbus Convention Center

Wendi M. Kappers moderates this panel discussion aimed at engineering design faculty and others interested in broadening participation of women in engineering.

Allies for Gender Equity and Allies for Gender Equity (Men Only) 3:15 p.m. to 4;45 p.m., Delaware A & B, Hyatt Regency Columbus

This interactive workshop encourages and equips participants to serve as effective allies for gender equity in STEM settings.

Minorities in Engineering Technical Session 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., Union Station C/Ballroom III, Columbus Convention Center

Hashtag #ThinkBigDiversity: Social Media Hacking Activities as Hybridized Mentoring Mechanisms for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM is among the papers being presented in this technical session moderated by Mohsen Mosleh.

NOTABLE SESSIONS

Tuesday is the big day for Division poster sessions, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall.

The sessions are numerous and varied, with something for everyone! The Manufacturing Division’s “Make It!” poster session will be massive and hands-on. Other highlights include the Biomedical Division poster session, featuring #FunTimeswiththeTA and toy adaptation in undergraduate engineering education; the Engineering Technology Division poster session, including a look at homework with Try-It-Again feedback; and the Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division, with research on the impact of maker spaces, among other topics.

Novel Pedagogical Techniques: Online, Electronic, and Apps! 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Room B145, Columbus Convention Center

“What representations am I using in my courses? Here’s an “app” for that!” and other papers in this Chemical Engineering Division session.