- Hulman Institute of Technology in 1987 where he is now a professor of Physics, Optical Engineering, and Associate Dean of Faculty. Siahmakoun is a SPIE Fellow (The International Society for Optical Engineering), OSA Senior Member, and Founding Director of Micro-Nanoscale Devices and Systems (MiNDS) Facility since 2003.Prof. Wonjong Joo P.E., Seoul National University of Science and Technology Wonjong Joo is a professor of Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoul Tech) and was a vice president of ABEEK (Accreditation Board of Engineering Education in Korea) for 2012- 2014. He has been a director of Seoul Tech’s Innovation Center for Engineering Education (ICEE) & Hub Center for 8 years and was a
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20764Kepler Tech Lab: Developing an affordable skills-based engineering lab coursein RwandaMs. QinQin Yu, University of California, Berkeley QinQin Yu is a first year physics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. Before starting her Ph.D., she spent one year as a part of the Kepler Tech Lab team, developing and testing a low-cost engineering teaching lab in Rwanda. She is interested in studying problems at the intersection of experimental physics and international development, including renewable energy, complex systems
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20735Preparation for ABET Accreditation at an Indian University – An ABETTeam Chair’s PerspectiveDr. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, State University of New York, Farmingdale Dr Bandyopadhyay is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Architecture and Construc- tion Management Department at Farmingdale State College. He is also the Director of Green Building Institute at the college. He was (2012-13) the Chair of Engineering Technology Accreditation Commssion of ABET. c American Society
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20760Developing successful partnerships in Electrical and Information Engineer-ing Education (EIE) with EU-programsProf. Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen Anna Friesel is Professor at the Center for Electro-technology, DTU Diplom - Technical University of Denmark, Campus Ballerup. She is also the president of the EAEEIE - European Association for Ed- ucation in Electrical and Information Engineering, which is a European non-profit organization, with members from nearly seventy European Universities
Engineering Education (OJGEE) as well as on the Provost’s Global Education Steering Committee. She also serves on the DAAD Alumni Association Board. Since she began working at URI in 2009, the IEP has seen an enrollment increase of 18 % and added an Italian branch. Sigrid has raised close to a million dollars in corporate, foundation, government and private funds for the IEP. She held prior positions as Coordinator, then Managing Director of the MIT Germany Program (1996-2009) and as Assistant Professor of German Studies at Barnard College (1990-96). She has published a book and numerous articles on 19th and 20th German Literature, co-authored an intermediate German textbook, and has more recently published several
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20727Open source in STEM program for effective learning in developing nationsDr. Simon Obeid, DeVry University, Orlando Dr. Simon Obeid is a full-time faculty in the College of Engineering & Information Sciences at DeVry University in Orlando, Florida. He is also serving the Department Chair of the College of Engineering & Information at DeVry Orlando. He was the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering & Information in Columbus, Ohio. He holds Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the