Welcome to Columbus and the 124th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition!
We hope you’re comfortably settled in. If you need urgent assistance, our conference staff is available at the Information Kiosk in the Columbus Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A & B, on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Or you can contact us at conferences@asee.org
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.
Sunday highlights start with the inaugural ASEE Active! group run/walk or sunrise gentle yoga in the morning, followed by a full day of technical sessions, the “Greet the Stars” luncheon for new ASEE members and first-time conference attendees, and the popular ASEE Division Mixer, sponsored this year by Ohio State University, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Then join ASEE President Louis Martin-Vega and Ohio State engineering dean David B. Williams for the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Welcome Reception opening Exhibit Hall at 5:45 p.m. And don’t miss the flying demonstrations in ASEE’s first-ever Drone Zone, the Virtual Reality experiences, or visits from denizens of the Columbus Zoo taking place in the Exhibit Hall Sunday evening through mid-day Tuesday.
See Interactive Conference Planner for session schedules and changes. Click HERE for an overview of new events and changes for 2017.
New! Ohio State, with over 8,000 undergraduate engineering students, hosts a campus tour from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This free, ticketed event, “Teaching at Scale: See How a Large University Provides Hands-on Experiences for Engineering Students,” starts at the Convention Center entrance.
Whether you’re into aviation, ale, or art, Columbus has something to suit every taste. Check out Prism associate editor Jenn Pocock’s travel guide, or listen to her picks for what to see and do on the Prism Podcast.
Tweeting? Use #ASEEAnnual for a chance to win gift cards in the Social Media contests. Post selfies with ASEE President Louis Martin-Vega, answer daily trivia questions, take the steps challenge, and more! Follow @ASEE_DC for details… and check out ASEE’s Do You Know fun facts!
Click HERE to see the National High School STEM contest winners who will be presenting at Monday’s opening plenary and then fielding questions in the Exhibit Hall from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
Exclusive offer: Renew your membership for two years during the annual conference and save 20 percent! Visit ASEE’s Information Kiosk during registration hours to process your renewal immediately. Click HERE for a short video about what ASEE does for its members and the engineering education community. 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.
Wi-Fi Availability. Complimentary Wi-Fi will be 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). 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 Sunday, Monday, and 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.
Peruse ASEE publications (Prism, Journal of Engineering Education, Advances in Engineering Education, Profiles, Journal of Engineering Technology, Engineering Design Graphics Journal, and more), and chat with editors at our table near the registration booth.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SATURDAY, JUNE 25
Inspiring the Next Generation to Take Flight with PreK-12 Engineering was the theme of the 14th annual ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education, presented by Dassault Systèmes. The daylong event featured hands-on activities and expert panels designed to help teachers integrate engineering and inquiry into their classrooms. Click HERE for the full program.
The workshop kicked off with a keynote address by Xavier Fouger, Dassault’s Senior Director for Global Academia Programs. Noteworthy interactive sessions included Incredible Wearables (University of Nebraska); Code+Chords: Teen Tech, Squishy Circuits, and Circus Science (University of St, Thomas); Novel Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Engineering and Literacy (Tufts University) ; Harnessing the Wind (U.S. Military Academy); Make it STEAMy: Effortless Integration of the Arts in STEM Learning (Texas A&M, Qatar); and Ensuring Equity in Project-Based Learning (National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity). Afterwards. teachers and presenters swapped tips at the Curriculum Showcase.
ASEE’s Francis Igot captured these highlights:
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- Keynote speaker Xavier Fouger (Dassault Systèmes) and Martha Cyr (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
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- Keynote speaker Xavier Fouger (Dassault Systèmes)
Also on Saturday, ASEE’s Community Engagement Division and Ohio State’s Toy Adaptation Program hosted a workshop to reverse engineer everyday playthings. The toys then were donated to local families and toy libraries, broadening their access to these toys. The event included opportunities to learn about how the program was established and might be replicated at participants’ campuses.
Saturday concluded on a delicious note – with a smorgasbord of Taste of Columbus cuisine and sampling of the various “Flavors of P-12 Engineering Education.”
Thanks to all the sponsors, educators, and volunteers who helped make ASEE’s 2017 PreK-12 Workshop, community engagement event, and Taste of Columbus such a success!
WHAT’S ON FOR TOMORROW, SUNDAY, JUNE 25
For titles, times, and locations of all workshops and other events, visit the ASEE’s Interactive Conference Planner for mobile devices at www.asee.org/icp. Every time you:
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View this short ASEE YouTube video or brief webinar to learn more about using the mobile app.
Note: Most workshops have moved from their traditional Sunday time slot to Wednesday, June 28. Exceptions are the Teaching Engineering Through Making workshop (8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Room A110) and the PreK Teacher workshop (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Room A110)
Sunday’s highlights include a full day of technical sessions, such as the Women in Engineering Division’s morning session featuring an oral history project; the “Greet the Stars” luncheon for new ASEE members and first-time conference attendees; the perennially popular ASEE Division Mixer, sponsored this year by Ohio State University; and the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Welcome Reception opening the Exhibit Hall at 5:45 p.m.
There’s also an all-day conclave for Engineering and Engineering Technology chairs at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, Franklin AB (see agenda). and the Student Division Welcome Social from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m.. Delaware C, Hyatt Regency Columbus.
NOTABLE SESSIONS
Morning topics range from Making and the Maker Movement (8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room C160A) to First-Year Programs “Birds of a Feather” meet-up (8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room A211); Merging Disciplines, Practice and Benefits (8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room B145); First-Year Programs’ Paying Attention to Retention and five-minute “works in progress” poster sessions; Engineering in Societal Context.
Midday sessions include Safe Zone Ally Training (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Delaware B, Hyatt Regency Columbus); Pre-College Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Room B141); Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching (2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Room C172)
FOCUS ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Tips & Tricks For Actively Engaging Students, Sunday, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a..m. Room B244-245, Columbus Convention Center.
Papers in this New Engineering Educators Division session discuss a workshop for effectively engaging students in a STEM classroom, using simple active learning techniques in electrical and computer engineering courses, and developing faculty learning communities for encouraging innovative teaching.
Instructional duties in many civil engineering departments are shared among tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, and teaching assistants. The papers in this session provide innovative approaches to mentoring, training, and coordinating this diverse group of personnel to achieve a cohesive department with a shared goal of providing a quality engineering education. Moderated by Michelle Marincel Payne and Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, P.E.
This session features papers by new engineering educators who are using technology to assist in their preparation for tenure and promotion as well as promoting academic honesty, administering entire courses electronically, and using video responses in a flipped classroom. Among intriguing titles: The Paperless First-Year Professor by Purdue’s Rustin Deane Webster.
Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement Sunday, 9:45 to 11:15 a.m., Room B140, Columbus Convention Center
Among the papers presented at this session, is the University of Texas, El Paso’s “Bringing the Great Pumpkin to Life, with Technology, Art, and Engineering.”