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Tweeting? Use #ASEEAnnual for a chance to win gift cards in the Social Media contests. Post selfies with President Louis Martin-Vega, answer daily trivia questions, take the steps challenge, and more! Follow @ASEE_DC for more information.

Stop by ASEE’s Living Wall outside the Exhibit Hall to record your reflections for future generations of conference attendees.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM TUESDAY

Tuesday’s Plenary featured the Corporate Member Council keynote address by Aimee Kennedy, Battelle’s Senior Vice President of Education, STEM Learning, and Philanthropy. The former chief academic officer of Columbus’s STEM-focused Metro Early College High School, she now oversees an Ohio and nationwide network of STEM schools.

The authors of the Best Overall PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers presented at the 2016 Annual Conference were recogognized.

BEST OVERALL ZONE PAPER—ZONE III:  “Clinical Faculty Development Program”
Authors: Norman Dennis and Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas

BEST OVERALL PIC PAPER—PIC III: “Going is Not Knowing: Challenges in Creating Intercultural Engineers” 
Authors: Kurt Paterson, James Madison University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Watkins, Michigan Technological University

BEST DIVERSITY PAPER: “Mapping Assets of Diverse Groups for Chemical Engineering Design Problem Framing Ability” 
Authors: Vanessa Svihla, Abhaya Datye, Jamie Gomez, Victor Law, and Sophia Bowers, University of New Mexico

Amelito Enriquez, professor of engineering and mathematics at Cañada College in Redwood City, California, was recognized with ASEE’s National Outstanding Teaching Award.

Later, attendees interacted with makers and other presenters at the ASEE Division poster session, and enjoyed lunch while exploring the many exciting offerings in the Exhibit Hall.

WHAT’S ON FOR WEDNESDAY:

The day takes off with an optional visit to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB near Dayton. Buses leave the conference center at 7:30 a.m., and return at 1:30 p.m. Don’t forget to record your reflections on ASEE’s Living Wall – you have until 4 p.m. to share your thoughts with future conference goers.

The International Forum kicks off on Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency Columbus Franklin Ballroom with a keynote address by Mike Murphy, Vice President and President-elect of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), who heads the Digital Campus & Learning Transformation initiative at Dublin Institute of Technology. Plenary speakers Fei-Yue Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will discuss iSTREAM, iCDIOS and other technology for new education of K-12 and beyond, while Michael Auer of the International Association of Online Engineering is speaking on online engineering education as global challenge.

ASEE Annual Conference attendees can attend the International Forum for a discounted rate of $150.

Wednesday’s Annual Conference highlights include a host of fascinating Distinguished Lectures, all from 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. The series, sponsored by WebsEdge, includes:

• Broadening Participation in STEM: How Far We Come, How Far We Have to Go, presented by Ohio State University and featuring Georgia Tech engineering dean Gary S. May (Room A122);
• The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: What Engineering and Engineering Technology Educators Can Do, by William Colglazier, Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy and Senior Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Room A111);
• The Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: A Design-Based Approach, by renowned assessment and learning expert James Pellegrino of the University of Illinois, Chicago (Union Station 2/Ballroom II);
• Embracing Disabling Constraints to Enable New Horizons in Engineering Education, with Matt King, a member of Facebook’s accessibility team and its first blind engineer (Union Station C/Ballroom III);
• Igniting and Sustaining Creativity and Innovation for Diverse P-12 Education, by Andrew B. Williams, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Marquette University and director of the Humanoid Engineering and Intelligent Robotics Lab (Union Station A/Ballroom I);
• Spice Up Every Engineer’s Education with a Pinch of Systems Engineering, by George Mason University systems engineering professor Arthur Peyser (Room A115);
• Making Manufacturing Cool Again, by Ethan Karp of the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (Room A114);
• Addressing the Critical Need for Effectively Translating Ethics Education into the Engineering Workplace, a dialogue and Q&A with Michael Hiles, chief scientific officer of Cook Biotech, University of Central Florida ethics and digital culture assistant professor Jonathan Beever, Purdue’s assistant head for academic affairs Andrew Brightman, and Eli Lilly’s senior ethics and compliance director Ilissa Rassner (Room A113); and
• Presentation of the best PIC and Zone papers (Room 112).

New! The Annual Awards Ceremony and Lunch, sponsored by Dassault Systèmes, takes place on Wednesday this year, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Columbus. Join friends and colleagues as we salute ASEE’s newest Fellows and outstanding educators, authors, and difference-makers!

ASEE President Louis Martin-Vega hosts a Farewell Reception sponsored by Dassault Systèmes (6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Battelle Grand, Columbus Convention Center). Come chat with him, President-elect Bevlee Watford, and others at this free ticketed event that closes the 2017 Annual Conference.

WORKSHOPS now take place on Wednesday, most from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Among them: Pigs in Space – The Workshop (Room 322) Vikram Shyam of NASA Glenn Research Center and University of Calgary associate dean and artist Marjan Eggermont Deconstructing and Assessing Motivation (Room B143) taps the collective wisdom of researchers from five universities to facilitate this interactive workshop in which pairs will work together to determine which theory of motivation best aligns with their research questions and how best to answer them; Humanitarian Engineering (Room B235) creators of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s interdisciplinary two-course sequence in humanitarian engineering and ethics demonstrate active-learning techniques; Creativity and Creativity Techniques (1:30 to 5:30 p.m., Room B246), conducted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology engineering educators Glen Livesay, Patricia Brackin, and Allen White, explores role-playing as an approach for developing course content.  

NOTABLE SESSIONS

Quo Vadis? The Future of Engineering Education, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room A111, Columbus Convention Center. Moderated by Bonnie H. Ferri and Richard DeMillo, director of the Center for 21st Century Universities and former dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, this thought-provoking panel includes Purdue’s engineering dean, Leah Jamieson, Carnegie Mellon Provost Farnam Jahanian, McGraw-Hill Education President and CEO David Levin, and Kathy Pugh, vice president for education services at edX.

Flip Out! Nontraditional Teaching Methods, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room A244, Columbus Convention Center. Moderated by Cederick Kwuimy and Barry Dupen, this session explores flipped classrooms, lessons learned from online courses for Chinese undergraduates, and other techniques.

Grace Notes.  Mechanics, Music, Meaning, and Mohr. 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Room B241, Columbus Convention Center. Let’s Break Stuff! and a musical twist on the standard bridge-building project are among the papers being presented in this Civil Engineering Division session moderated by Charles Riley P.E. and Allen C. Estes P.E.

Collaboration: Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room C162A, Columbus Convention Center. Moderated by Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., this session includes papers on The Journey to One, a multi-institution engineering education effort in Taiwan, and a review of the current state of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program.

Write on: Enhance Your Writing Productivity – Identifying Unproductive Habits and Developing Better Ones. 8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Room A121, Columbus Convention Center. This Ohio State University-sponsored technical session should be particularly useful for graduate students and junior faculty members.