Paper ID #36389GIFTS: Incorporating Patent Review into First-Year Student DesignProjects to Support Ideation, Concept Selection, and CommercializationDr. Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University Lee Rynearson is the First-Year Engineering Coordinator & Assistant Professor of Engineering at Camp- bell University. He received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 and earned his PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2016. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 GIFTS
, mechanics, computational tools and international product design as well as graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He has conducted research in the areas of environmentally-responsible manufacturing, globally-distributed engineering teaming and early engi- neering education development and has over 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 GIFTS: Introducing Quad Chart to Reinforce Technical Communication Skills Debjani Sarkar and