Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9632Engineering habits of the mind - an undergraduate course that asks: ”Whatis it that makes someone an engineer?” and ”What distinguishes engineersfrom other professionals?”Prof. Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology Joe Le Doux is the Executive Director for Learning and Student Experience in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He has also previously served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for the Department. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests in engineering education focus on problem-solving, diagrammatic reasoning, and on the socio-cognitive

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

we had not intended or realized.About the AuthorsJ: Because of the autoethnographic33 approach, personal background details matter, so we willinclude them here.I studied chemical engineering in California and spent two and a half years as an energyconsultant before deciding to obtain my PhD. I started exploring Quakerism about 3 years agoand felt strongly connected to this community. There is not a common theology or creedamongst Quakers; while some consider themselves Christian, I do not identify Jesus of Nazarethas my personal savior. I live my life through reflecting on my inner light, and have a regularBuddhist mindfulness practice.C: My own history includes a BS in industrial engineering and a Master of Education degreefocusing on math

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryellen Meny Overbaugh; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and provideexplanations of those results.Literature Review Various universities and institutions have posted model presentations by engineeringstudents as a means to accelerate the development of other engineering students as speakers. Thissection discusses those attempts with the following criteria in mind: (1) strengths of the models,(2) limitations of the models, and (3) quality of the films. Table 1 summarizes the student modelsin this review.Table 1: Summary of Relevant Literature on Student Model Presentations Source of Models Student Population Analysis of Models Affected British Columbia Speaking contest that + 40 students in initial contestant pool; question

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

back to when we all started writing our first scene performances, everyone was stuck sitting in their groups and trying to systematically plan out the script and staging in their heads rather than getting up and trying it. It’s something that we aren’t taught a lot of in engineering. I can’t count how many times I’ve had a group report to write and we’ve sat there deliberating on how exactly we want to write it, when it would have been much easier to just start writing what ever comes to mind, and then editing later. I think that free “artistic” style of thinking (not saying that artists aren’t systematic in what they do) is something we can all learn from.6.2 Representations of Science and Technology in the Popular

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

shedesigned advertisements for a local art school, edited a magazine to present scientific research topublic audience in more interactive styles, and co-founded the aeronautics club at Smith. Someof her classmates chose to expand their horizon by travelling to different parts of the world. P1spent a semester in an exchange program studying architecture in Denmark; she also made afield trip to Nepal with her teammates, gathering information for their Design Clinic project. P4pursued a minor in Portuguese. While she was studying in an exchange program in Brazil, anindependent study course attracted her to social sciences, after which she made her mind toswitch to engineering arts.When H4 first came to HMC, he didn’t have a good understanding of what a

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

profession and its educationalinstitutions, along with the public, not mutually benefit from a view of the public that honored itsknowledge in regards to engineering?With the questions above in mind, I have written the following paper to challenge the dominantbelief in the engineering educational and professional community that the public’s view ofengineering is somehow deficient. I have termed this belief as “dominant,” not just because two ofthe most influential engineering-related agencies, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)and the National Science Foundation (NSF), have both claimed that the lack of publicunderstanding of engineering was having a negative effect on the engineering field and society ingeneral. 1 (p. 7) I have termed the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

satisfaction, diversity,and learning31.Course contentDeveloping the course content involved keeping both aspects of our mission in mind: teachingengineering design as a way of knowing, a broadly relevant method for problem discovery,definition and solution; and also developing students’ professional preparation. The vocabularyof design used in the course was drawn from the IDEO/Stanford d.school version of the designprocess (Figure 1), and from the textbook developed at Harvey Mudd College32.Figure 1. Engineering design process, adapted from Stanford d.schoolCourse topics included: an introduction to the design process; case studies such as the evolutionof bridge design and the way the properties of available engineering materials informs the formand

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, andconversations within the research team upon conclusion of the course.Concept MapsConcept maps are used in these courses to meet the first learning objective. Concept mappinghelps students meta-cognitively arrange their understanding of a complex web of ideas. Thishigher level form of thinking is a habit of mind essential to engineers, and as such, it is importantto help students develop this meta-cognitive capacity within the classroom. Concept maps wereused within both pilot courses at two universities during the Fall 2013 school semester. Eachcourse asked students to develop their own concept maps depicting their understanding ofsustainability. Students developed their concept maps once at the beginning of the semester and asecond time at the end

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Microethics, and Macroethics:Product Liability as an Ethical Issue in Engineering Design, International Journal of Engineering Education, 19(1), 2003, pp. 163–167. 9. Herkert J., “Future Directions in Engineering Ethics Research: Microethics, Macroethics, and the Role of Professional Societies,” Science and Engineering Ethics, 7, no. 3, pp. 403-414, 2001. 10. Gentile, M., Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right. Yale University Press, 2010. 11. Kelvin Thompson, Aimee DeNoyelles, Baiyun Chen and Linda Futch (2013). Discussion Prompts. In K. Thompson and B. Chen (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #10251Study Abroad as a Means to Achieving ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes: A CaseStudy in Course Design and AssessmentDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Engi- neering and Society. She is a past chair of the Liberal Education Division of ASEE. Page 24.1136.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Study Abroad as a Means to Achieving ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes: A

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

who received humanities education tend to have better performance” in the workplace,based on pre-and-post surveys given to employers of graduates.In a recent blog post for Science [11] on the reasons to include the Humanities in careerpreparation, and even though writing about science careers, not engineering, Albert brings forthten enumerated reasons, many of which are relevant to engineering practice as well. Reason 2 isthat “[s]tudying the humanities allows you to become familiar with and use the creative ideasfrom great minds outside of science. As a poignant example in support of this argument, considerthe application of art-inspired mathematics to the applied chemistry of an oil-spill clean-up,presented at the Bridges 2012: Mathematics

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technologically mediated social networks, it has become difficult to remainignorant of the realities experienced by people across the globe3. This social connectivityhas also made it easier for like-minded people to act on problems that they findcompelling simultaneously making the need and the motivation to act more apparent andurgent.The engineering community has responded to this call as evidenced in the emergence ofgroups such as Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)a, Engineers Without Borders(EWB)b and Engineers Against Povertyc. At the heart of these organizations is a desire tocreate an equitable, sustainable future by mobilizing engineers around the world to makemeaningful contributions to complex, global problems.Evidence from a number of

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9995What’s wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical Impli-cations of ”Evidence-based Practice” in STEM educationDr. Donna M Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College Page 24.1373.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 What’s wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical Implications of “Evidence-based

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

independent discipline status. For example, engineering learningcould only occur after “xin shu yi gui yu chun zheng” (one’s heart is pure and rectified) and “yizhongguo jingshi zhi xue weiji” (training in Chinese Confucian classics as fundamental). Toachieve this kind of foundational moral and intellectual development, it was assumed that theConfucian classics were covered in all levels of schooling, from the small xuetang (elementaryschools) to preparatory colleges and universities. In fact, the policy documents indicated thattreatment of Confucian teachings in elementary schools and universities should be well-aligned,especially in order to rectify human mind and human nature.10 Engineering was more specificallytreated as “yineng” (“artistic

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in P-12 education, policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering, the measurement and support of the change of ’engineering habits of mind’ particularly empathy and the use of cyber-infrastructure to sensitively and resourcefully provide access to and support learning.Dr. Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Pan earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology and received both her M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9397Billy Vaughn Koen and the Personalized System of Instruction in Engineer-ing EducationDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Sci- ence, University of Pennsylvania, and currently serves as the Chair Elect of ASEE’s Liberal Education / Engineering and Society Division; an elected member of Society for the History of Technology’s Ex- ecutive Council; as Associate Editor of the international journal

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jean L. Coco, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mehdi Miri, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert W. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #8823Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer EngineeringDesign Courses: A Four-Course StudyMs. Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nabila (Nan) BouSaba is a faculty associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 2008; she is the senior design instructor for the department, additional courses taught include Basic Circuit for non- majors, and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship course ECGR4090/5090. Nan Earned her BS and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering (1982, 1986) from North

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Giacomo Nannicini, SUTD; Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Elica Kyoseva, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Jean Wan Hong Yong, SUTD; Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Robert E Simpson; Aditya Prasad Mathur

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #8653Integrated 2D Design in the Curriculum: Effectiveness of Early Cross-SubjectEngineering ChallengesProf. Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design Dr. Otto is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Product Development Pillar at the Singapore Uni- versity of Technology and Design. He teaches the design courses as well as disciplinary courses including thermodynamics, and is very interested in multidisciplinary education.Mr. Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design BSME Carnegie Mellon 2008 MSME University of Texas at Austin 2010 PhD

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

reflections isthat “doing something” was at the forefront of Watt’s mind, a more seasoned professor amongus, who was aware of other groups she’d been involved with that never moved past the planningstage. Bernal, though--our newest faculty member and an engineer--took for granted that theprogram would come to fruition. While the seasoned communication professor was impressedthat “we took the idea from inception to implementation in one year,” the new engineeringprofessor hadn’t considered one year to be a particularly quick timeframe. A related key traitthat all three share is accepting the need to do things “on the fly”; for instance, we agreed from

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael L. Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9931Living With Contradiction: Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Theo-retical Frame to Study Student Engineering Project TeamsMr. Michael L Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Michael Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto and professor of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at Sheridan College, Oakville ON. Michael’s research interests are in project-based learning in technology education, with his dissertation looking at how Formula SAE engineering student project teams engage information management contradictions

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch; Michael Owen Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #10385Exploring Student Sustainability Knowledge using the Structure of ObservedLearning Outcomes (SOLO) TaxonomyDr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr. Mary Katherine Watson is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. Prior to joining the faculty at The Citadel, Dr. Watson earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She also has BS and MS degrees in Biosystems Engineering from Clemson University. Dr. Watson’s research interests are in the areas of engineering education and biological waste treatment. Specifically

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #10109Adventures in paragraph writing: the development and refinement of scal-able and effective writing exercises for large enrollment engineering coursesMs. Rebecca Rose Essig, Purdue UniversityDr. Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2003) Assistant Professor, Purdue Uni- versity, School of Civil Engineering (2007-present)Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an