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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jackson Kai Painter, University of Louisville; Kate E. Snyder, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

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decision increased. Althoughthere have been some qualitative studies on the topic of major selection, this remains a gap in theliterature that career theories can be used to explain.Career theories can provide insight into reasons for major selection among first-year collegestudents. While some researchers focus on person-environment fit career theories (Porter &Umbach, 2006) in which the focus is on understanding how the environment suits or does notsuit the individual’s personality, others theories place emphasis on self-efficacy beliefs, personalgoals, and outcome expectations (Lent et al., 2008; Miller et al, 2015). Because factors such asself-efficacy have emerged as critical constructs in prior research with engineering students

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Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette / Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia; Ruth A. Streveler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Audeen W. Fentiman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal, Purdue University; Sayan Biswas, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University; Brandon S Coventry, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University; Abdel-Rahman Hassan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret L McNamara, Purdue University; Smirti Nandan Paul, Purdue University

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studentsAbstractThe job of a college engineering faculty member is multifaceted. Faculty are not only expected to teachand conduct research but also to write proposals, consult, network, engage in administrative duties, andthe list continues. The relative importance and time allocated to these different functions vary accordingto the nature and focus of the institution and the interests of the faculty. However, engineering graduatestudents aspiring to careers in academe are not usually trained in the multiple facets of the profession. Asa result, when they become faculty members they often struggle to find ways to balance the parallel andmany times competing demands of these functions.This paper examines the professional development plans of six engineering

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Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Cristina Estrada, University of Virginia; Lindsey Taylor Brinton, The Ohio State University

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her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2016. Her disser- tation research under the mentorship of Dr. Kimberly Kelly focused on the development of liposomes targeted to the stromal compartment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. She has taught Nanomedicine and been a teaching assistant for Calculus I and Physiology II. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Tricks of the Trade: Navigating teaching opportunities in the research- based engineering Ph.D.AbstractEngineering graduate students will ultimately face the decision of whether to stay in academia, workin industry, or pursue a different career path. Of those that elect to remain in

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Getting Into Graduate School

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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accordingly.In ideal circumstances, you would begin the graduate school application process no later than thesummer before your final year of undergraduate studies. During this summer (or earlier), youshould complete the following tasks:  Identify potential schools, based on your research interests, family/personal needs, geographic preferences, and career/personal goals.  Determine if you are required to complete any graduate school competency exams, such as the GRE [3]; if so, study for and complete these exams  Determine if you are required to complete any language examinations, such as the TOEFL [4]; if so, study for and complete these exams  Identify 3+ references, at least two of who are faculty members who

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Student Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Anna Danielle Newley, Sonoran Schools; Hasan Deniz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ezgi Yesilyurt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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enjoyed coding and buildingteacher education courses before they are asked to integrate engineering potential to sway students towards STEM careers, there is only some States during the Spring 2016 semester. Lego robots (Figure 2). All of the participants decided to integratedesign to their science teaching. The aim of this paper is to document to emphasis in engineering in middle and high school. Conversely, at thewhat extent pre-service elementary teachers improve their nature of elementary level, engineering

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Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Candyce Hill, Michigan State University ; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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, Oklahoma and then as a career adviser at U of M.Dr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learning. Luchini- Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which

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Student Division Innovative Research Methods Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Kim, North Carolina State University; David F. Ollis, North Carolina State University

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   this was true, or whether there was rather a difference in emphasized skills. He interviewedseveral CPE French professors. In an interview, the Assistant to the Chemistry and ChemicalEngineering Scientific Direction at IPL stated that she and her faculty “…do not perceive theAmerican students to be at a lower level than the French students.” Other French professors,such as Dr. Peiere Monkham and Dr. Muriel de Montigny, remarked that they believed thesame. They noticed that on the whole, however, the American students did not have the samepractical (i.e. in-lab) experience that French students would have by the same point in theiracademic careers, and that American engineering education tended to be more theoretical. AtCPE in France, hands-on

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Student Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jordan E. Trachtenberg, Rice University

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Diversity

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• Technical reports [DeTurris 2012, Elrod 2010]prepare students for science and engineering careers, it is crucial to help them improve 2) Self-identification as a professional • Operating procedures • Develop assessment rubrics [Frank 2015] that directly relatetheir technical writing and presentation skills to wide audiences. It is well-supported that

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Elfer, Tulane University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Kaitlin Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology

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development and began the first steps to unify thesegroups. The organization’s focus is nurturing young academics in STEM fields, but membershipis open to all gender identities and disciplines. Speciality committees that focus on personal andprofessional growth of WISE members have formed within the organization. These specialitycommittees include those interested in academia, industry, or government careers; mental andphysical wellness; international interests; LGBT; and social networking.FundingWithout the support of university administration, WISE would not have been possible. Whilemany resources are available for graduate students and postdocs around the university, unifyingthese resources under a single heading and also tailoring them for what

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeannie Marie Purchase, Virginia Tech ; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech

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Organization’s Lisa Tabor Award for Community Service. Using deep insights from a fourteen-year industry career and her strengths as a systems thinker, she is now developing and disseminating empirically-grounded models and strategies for improved human competence, motivation, and learning as it relates to the civil engineering profession and the construction industry. She is a discipline-based education researcher who passionately pursues research to develop an agile, ethical, diverse construction workforce enabled to lead, design, and build sustainable, intelligent infrastructure. Her mission is to transform the construction workforce and sustain change. To this end, she undertakes research that enables her to influence

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Blake Gegenheimer, STEP; Charles Algeo Wilson IV, Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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career. The value was “1” if the studenteither remained or graduated in engineering for each year. The value was “0” if the studentswitched to a different curriculum, graduated in a different curriculum, dropped out, ortransferred out of the university. Retention was determined using the 14th day enrollment figuredefined by the registrar’s office, and graduation was recorded for fall, spring, and summer ofeach year. SI attendance was recorded using sign in sheets during each session. In previous studies,an individual student could be counted multiple times in the dataset if they had taken more thanone course where SI was offered. For this study, students were only counted once in the dataset;the percent attendance in every course the

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Blake Gegenheimer, Louisiana State University STEP ; Charles Algeo Wilson IV, Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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% lower than males at LSU. The same confidence issues that ethnicminorities feel might explain this small decrease. The stigma that engineering is a maledominated career field can subconsciously affect female students by reducing their confidenceand self-efficacy, and a correlation clearly exists between self-efficacy and success in STEMfields (11, 12).2.3 The LSES Minority Students of low socioeconomic status (LSES) have to overcome many barriers to gettingan education that other students do not face. These students are often solely responsible forpaying their own way through college, having to work full-time jobs while taking a full load ofdifficult classes. These students often have additional financial burdens that can make the path

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Student Division Innovative Research Methods Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel K. Anderson, Clemson University; Julie P Martin, Clemson University

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. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson Univer- sity. Her research agenda has focused on diversity and inclusion in engineering education. In particular, her NSF-funded CAREER work has investigated how social relations—operationalized as social capi- tal—influence student academic decisions and success, especially for underrepresented and underserved students. Her CAREER research supports the need for continued proactive outreach, educational and support systems that have the potential to form ”resource-rich” networks in which students receive infor- mation and resources in routine exchanges. Dr. Martin’s current projects

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Lynn Mann, Kettering University ; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Rebecca Marie Reck, Kettering University

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competitive jobs and activities wheresituations for advancement often exist.There have been several programs implemented to provide hands-on activities in a way thatpromotes females’ sense of belonging, which have been studied by various researchers. Carlsonand Sullivan 12 found many females, in addition to other underrepresented populations, have beenapproached at middle school and high school level to take part in different hands on educationexperiences with a focus in computer science and coding tasks. The purpose of this was topromote STEM fields for a career path, which many of the female students would otherwise notconsider. In some cases, these programs provided them with female role models and femaleengineering mentors in order to help with

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Student Division Innovative Research Methods Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Marguerite McAlister, The Ohio State University; Dennis M. Lee, Clemson University; Katherine M. Ehlert, Clemson University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

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rat cells and transfected them with a Coder 1 05-Jul-Line polymer and non-viral DNA. After two days 201610 had passed I would observe to see if the genes had transfected into the cell (by turning green) or if the cells had died.Page 1 Student A field/career that I am no longer interested in. Coder 1 05-Jul-Line interest (anti) 201615Page 1 Tedious Its very tedious with very little reward Coder 1 05-Jul-Line 201615Table 2 displays a section of a table of

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Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zahra Shahbazi, Manhattan College; Mary Ann Jacobs Ed.D., Manhattan College; Alexandra Emma Lehnes, Manhattan College; Kathleen Christal Mancuso, Manhattan College; Anthony Scotti, Manhattan College

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leadership in their professional guideline series [3]. In AIChE’s body ofknowledge, it lists necessary psychomotor skills of listening and interpreting, speaking andpresenting, communication, leadership, presentation, and teamwork [4]. In general, everyengineering disciple these professional skills for a successful engineer.Despite the standards set by these societies, usually in an engineering curriculum there is noformal course on professional skills. Typically, during the capstone senior design courseundergraduate engineering students are exposed to some of these skills such as presentation andteam work. Occasionally the center of career development at an institution will offer sessions onprofessional skills usually focusing on interviews and

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Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley Evanoski-Cole, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University; Bert Vermeulen, Colorado State University; Jamison Taylor Bair, Colorado State University; Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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STEMmajor.15–17 In this study, we explore the confidence of undecided engineering students in theirchoice of engineering major by investigating the impacts of student attitudes and confidencetowards first-year math, science, and engineering courses. The impact on their retention duringtheir first semester is also investigated.At Colorado State University, an average retention rate for freshman engineering students fromthe fall to spring semesters is 55.0% (Table 1). Freshman students just starting their collegeeducation can be uncertain about what they would like to study and how those areas of study willimpact their future career path. Even students who choose to study engineering are faced withthe question of what specific engineering major to

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Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamison Taylor Bair, Colorado State University; Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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Competition.The primary goal of this study was to provide undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students inMECH 486 an introduction to lean manufacturing goals, tools, and best practices, and betterprepare students for their future careers. A secondary goal was to validate that leanmanufacturing principles can be taught to students in an introductory-level lecture, and thenapplied by students to a variety prototype projects.Background and Literature ReviewTo begin this study, two publications were reviewed to develop baseline knowledge on leanmanufacturing. The first was The Machine That Changed the World, a summary of a five yearresearch study on the automobile industry and differences between Japanese and Westernmanufacturing styles published by Womack

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Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Md Tarique Hasan Khan, Wayne State University; Kamyar Raoufi, Oregon State University; Kijung Park, Iowa State Univerisity; Tasnia Reza; Carolyn E Psenka, Wayne State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karl R. Haapala, Oregon State University; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State University; Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University

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, engineering, andmathematics (STEM), which the investigators describe as being in a “state of emergency.” Byintegrating traditional and sustainable engineering skills, the next generation of students maybecome more interested in careers in engineering [2]. Carew and Mitchell discovered thatdifferent concepts of sustainability exist within engineering, and this explicit contestation of theconceptual variation in the engineering classroom offers opportunities to improve undergraduatesustainability learning and teaching [4]. They suggested engineering education needs to employ adiversity of teaching and learning methods to address the role of values and assumptions insustainable decision making, rather than supporting a specific tool, sets of actions, or

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Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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Careers in Science andEngineering. Wiley-IEEE Press.Seldin, P. (1993). Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios. Bolton, MA, Anker PublishingCompany, Inc.

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Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila A. Huq, Colorado State University; Wenlong Xu, Colorado State University; Sanli Movafaghi, Colorado State University; Mona Hemmati, Colorado State University

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strong factorin determining a student’s progression or non-progression to the subsequent course. Thesecond most common response indicated perceived importance of the degree for theirdesired future career. The third most popular answer was that they found their program ofstudy enjoyable. It is important to note that students were able to make multipleselections for this particular survey question. That said, while a large majority ofprogressing students were confident in their success in the program, only one studentreported the coursework being easy. Therefore, this confidence is likely not a product ofease of training but of something else internal, the most likely reason being good workethic. In addition, it may also be surmised that the

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Student Division Innovative Research Methods Technical Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cassandra Groen, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an assistant professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction and in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She is the 2016 recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor and the Black Graduate Student Organization’s Lisa Tabor Award for Community Service. Using deep insights from a fourteen-year industry career and her strengths as a systems