Conference Session

Building a Community in Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Stair, Northwestern University; Jefferson Z. Liu, Northwestern University; Mark Asta, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Science and Engineering, Northwestern University. He received his B.E. and M.E. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, P.R. China. His research interests are in application of atomistic and first-principle methods for simulating thermodynamic, mechanical, and kinetic properties of complex multiphase bulk materials and nano-structures.Mark Asta, Northwestern University Prof. Asta received his Ph. D. degree in an interdisciplinary Materials Physics program from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993, and subsequently joined Sandia National Laboratories at Livermore, CA. He joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Dr. Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University Dr Michael Escuti is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He earned his PhD’02 and MS’99 degrees at Brown University and BS’97 degree at Drexel University. He has taught a wide range undergraduate classes, including in cir- cuits, electromagnetics, photonics, organic electronics and nanotechnology, and since 2010 serves as Chair of the ECE Course and Curriculum Committee.Prof. Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University Mehmet C. Ozturk received his BS degree in

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Landaverde-Alvarado, University of Texas, Austin

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

opportunities ofengineering students are also constantly evolving [3]. Nowadays, engineering students arepursuing careers in more diversified areas that possess fluid work structures, and that requireengineers that are quick to adapt to change and effective at facilitating multidisciplinarycollaborations [3], [5], [10]. In this context, communication and teamwork are critical to thesuccess of early career engineers; these capabilities are a fundamental aspect of career growthand an integral trait of leadership [4], [10]–[12]. The ability to communicate effectively, todemonstrate teaming skills, and to work in dynamic teams is increasingly important, and must beconsidered a priority in engineering programs as they try to better prepare students for

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

science literature were identified while interviewing the engineering design teams. Afterthe cases were created each design team reviewed the case for accuracy. The following threesub-sections provide an outline for each of the cases and relevant behavioral decision scienceconcepts.Historic Fourth Ward ParkThe first module developed was the Historic Fourth Ward Park, part of the BeltLine greenwayproject in Atlanta, Georgia. The case study focuses on the complexities of multi-stakeholderdecisions, and the main assignment asks students to integrate the priorities of community, city,and other stakeholders to create a comprehensive design and layout for the park. The purpose ofthe park was also to provide storm water retention for the city. The

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

., “Modernization of a Mechanical Engineering Laboratory using Data Acquisition with LABVIEW”, ASEE 2003 Session 22663 McConnaughay,K., Welsford,I., Stabenau,E., “Inquiry, Investigation, and Integration in Undergraduate Science Curricula”, Council on Undergraduate Research Quartley, pp14-18, September 19994 Mantei,E.J., “Using Internet Class Notes and Power Point in the Physical Geology Lecture – Comparing the Success of Computer Technology with Traditional Teaching Techniques”, Journal of College Science teaching, pp301-305, April 20005 Regan,M., Sheppard,S., “Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-On Learning Experience: An Assessment Study”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp123-131, Apr 19966 Riggs,B., Poli,C., Woolf,B

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Utilization of the Learning Cycle and Design of Experiments to Enhance Understanding of Mechanical Engineering Concepts John S. Brader, Jed S. Lyons Department of Mechanical Engineering - University of South CarolinaAbstractThrough design of experiments, as part of an increasingly difficult series of laboratory exercises,students gain a greater understanding of the relevant engineering theory. This paper outlines athree part laboratory experience specifically designed to introduce freshmen to the variety ofengineering disciplines. The three experiments increase in difficulty

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

included in theengineering and engineering technology curriculum. The findings indicate that American toolshops are using innovative technologies, updating machinery, and instituting new strategies. Thetool shops making this transition are the adaptors creating new competitive advantages byrevising their strategies to reflect competitive changes, offering products fitting into uniqueniches, supplying specialized customer services, and providing rapid delivery. The results fromthis study have been incorporated into engineering and engineering technology courses to betterprepare graduates for careers in engineering management for manufacturing based industries.IntroductionForeign competition has had an extremely negative impact on American

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna Riley, Smith College

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Engineering Ethics

(2001) discussed the role of the NNI as abroker in coordinating research and development in nanotechnology together with public hopesand fears. They also commented that the NNI should embrace the goal of building capacity forpublic dialogue. Roco and Bainbridge also addressed the need for honesty when genuine risksare identified.Education and human development. Nanotechnology and its social, cultural scientific andtechnological consequences create an opportunity to integrate education across science,technology, social sciences and humanities (Roco and Bainbridge 2005) 7 . The end-result maybe informed, educated publics emerging from our high schools and colleges, able to shape thedirection of nanotechnology in beneficial ways (Roco and

Conference Session

New Teaching Methods in Mechanics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

were to help faculty (quote3): 1) engage in reflection and continuous improvement of learning, both their own and their students 2) facilitate conversations about teaching and learning in the process of building a learning community 3) create a collaborative learning environment with faculty and peers 4) build confidence in curriculum development including designing, guiding, and assessing learning 5) learn with and about technology in the process of improving curriculum, and 6) connect teaching and research and bridge the gap between theory and practice.Recognizing the potential for widespread engagement of engineering educators, an initiative onAdvancing Engineering Education through Virtual Communities of Practice

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Professor S. P. MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientificinformation systems integration and management. He is the author of a text book, 'The Use ofComputers in Laboratory Automation', which was commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry(UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - an introduction', wascommissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has also served on manynational and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of theInstitute of

Conference Session

Discussions on Research Methodology: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Carlye Anne Lauff, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Mark Rentschler, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jenna McWilliams, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

sure they go just above the knee. We don’t want short skirts; those aren’t business appropriate at all.As highlighted above, and in a presentation slide used by the TAs, students wereexplicitly encouraged to integrate an “attention getter” into their presentations; the class’sTA’s described these attention getters on their slide as a “fact, joke, or greeting.” Page 26.880.10Of the six groups, three chose to begin with a joke; of the remaining three groups, twobegan with a fact and one did not include any of the three possible attention getters.Because of the relative prevalence of humor, and because of humor’s role

Conference Session

Lessons learned

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Jessica E. S. Swenson, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

data will be collected on students’ pre and postattitudes, interest, and conceptions of engineering through surveys and the Draw an EngineerTest. Qualitative data will also be collected in the form of classroom video observations. Theresults of this project will help to demonstrate its efficacy as well as new ways to think abouthow we address the issue of female participation in STEM (focusing on engineering).Introduction The comparatively low enrollment of female students in college engineering programshas focused attention on the experience K-12 female students have in STEM (science,technology, engineering and mathematics) [1]. There is evidence from research in scienceeducation that female attitudes toward STEM form as early as

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hatsuko Yoshikubo, Shibaura Institute Of Technology, Japan; Sumito Nagasawa, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan; Hiroyuki Ishizaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Reform and Research Activity. She obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature from Chiba University in 2002. Her current main research interests are: 1) how including humanities courses in an engineering education curriculum can help students to gain flexibility, and an appreciation of equity, and a greater richness of ideas; 2) finding and solving the systematic issues impacting the effectiveness of engineering education, specifically in the context of project-based learnings; and 3) assessing the impact of interdisciplinary engi- neering project-based learnings. Below are her recent presentations at international conferences: WERA 2022, APAIE 2022, IIAI DSIR 2021, IIAI DSIR 2020, WERA 2019. She obtained the Outstanding Paper

Conference Session

"Green" Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

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Architectural

conducts an evaluation of performance of students in his/her courses as part ofthe Program objectives and outcome assessment process. A summary report on the performance ofstudents (to meet the Program objectives) and compliance with the Program outcomes is prepared andsubmitted to the Department Chair for the assessment purposes.Future plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the capstone in term of learning outcomes:Actions that will be implemented to improve the effectiveness of the curriculum in term of learningoutcomes:  We expanded on the instructors’ self-evaluation such that more direct assessment of students’ learning outcomes is obtained. A set of standards for instructor’s self-evaluation will be prepared by the

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marvi Matos, University of Washington; Danilo Pozzo, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

valued by engineering departments that have embraced this form of instruction.[5-7] This teaching approach has been found to reinforce creative thinking,[8] to improve designquality[9] and to develop confidence and innovation skills.[10] Students are also more passionatewhen they are provided with challenging problems that do not have an obvious linear solution or [10-12]a tightly constrained parameter space. Offering project-based learning experiences enablethe students to integrate technical design with real world constrains resulting in an increased and [6, 13-16]deeper understanding of their field. There is vast evidence in the arena

Conference Session

Assessment in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Liberatore, The University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

Paper ID #36566Can I have More Problems to Practice? Part 2. StudentSuccess Related to Auto-graded, End-of-chapter YouTubeProblems in a Material and Energy Balances CourseMatthew Liberatore Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. From 2005 to 2015, he served on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2018, he served as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

of with the Bending concept where itarguably belongs. The map lacks the idea of inter-related items. The student map shown in Figure 3 makes an attempt to show the inter-related nature of theconcepts, but also reveals this student’s confusion as well. The map possessed dramatic color (asfrom highlighter felt pens) which was not captured in the image scanning process. The studentuses words along the connecting spokes to convey additional meaning, and adds connectionsaround the perimeter, an obvious indication that he understands things are interconnected. Thisstudent also omits several significant course ideas such as combined loading, principal stress anddeflection altogether. Figure 3. Example of student concept map using words

Conference Session

Flipped Classrooms in Mechanics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

some statics classes, as many as 35 percent of students earn a D or an F. Thesegrades are typically not high enough for the student to move on to subsequent classes and maydramatically alter a student’s plans for earning an engineering degree in a certain period of time. Page 26.890.2Therefore, targeting key courses in the sophomore year that serve as a foundation for furthercoursework in the discipline may be particularly effective in helping students.While evidence shows that implementing more active teaching and learning strategies areeffective in improving student engagement and learning4, there is often a disconnect betweenacknowledging

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2010-1278: INTRODUCING CRITICAL THINKING TO FRESHMANENGINEERING STUDENTSJames Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include parallel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville Jeffrey L. Hieb, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. His research interests include cyber security

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku; Christopher Andrew Parlier, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Stories Reveal Gendered Perceptions of What it Means to be Innovative in EngineeringAbstractFocus on the role of motivation and emotions as part of engineering entrepreneurial definitionspose an intriguing question: Might understanding how college students characterize a newgraduate’s entrepreneurial action be crucial for expanding a definition of innovation andinfusing new elements in the curriculum? In this paper, we utilized students’ interpersonalperceptions of another to parse out the definition of innovativeness, finding that gender mattersfor achievement motivation and affiliation motivation in conceptualizing anengineer/founder/CEO. The study included two independent elements (gender cue prompt andgender of participant) and

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

that producesimages with a limited degree of the ambiguity that is required for multiple interpretationsassociated with effective use of sketching. Scanning sketches and using raster-to-vectorconversion software to convert scanned sketches to vector data compatible with CADapplications provides another option for integrating preliminary conceptual drawings with CAD.However, this process lacks both immediacy and low-level interaction of sketching and is limitedin the extent to which it supports a cyclical design process that produces lateral transformations. Van Elsas and Vergeest [2] suggested that 3-dimensional modeling for conceptual designcould provide an alternative to sketching. Applications such as Autodesk’s ArchitecturalDesktop

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Sunday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield; Charles Lam, California State University, Bakersfield

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #18609Work in Progress: Increasing Interest in STEM and Improving Retention forAt-Risk Students - A Two-Year StudyDr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSUB. Dr. Danforth is the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF-DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth is the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways for students in the CSUB service

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

graduate education for scientific research. The design of professionalgraduate education for creative engineering practitioners, who are emerging as innovators andleaders of technology development in industry, requires a different professional curriculum and Page 12.733.5approach than that presently used for the graduate education of academic research scientists. Itrequires a different type of faculty, approach, and focus.4. Aims of Professional Education ─Developing the U.S. Engineering Workforce in IndustryThe education of an engineer is truly a process of lifelong learning, growth and intellectualdevelopment that continues beyond the rudimentary

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

power to people that can buy something that is notaccessible to everyone, in this case a relative power, satisfying psychological features, suchas novelty needs, vanity, and need of self-confidence. The “power” of having the lastgeneration of hi-tech objects, which only very few people can own.Reactions Against Consumerism and TechnopolyWe can already observe some reactions against the exaggerated consumerism andTechnopoly. A university in Australia13 adapted its curriculum to graduate engineers, as“technical person”, in four years or, in case students want to, as “authentic person”, in fiveyears. That is, they can choose if they will be a “technical person”, working within theirprofessional limits, or an “authentic person”, working to achieve

Conference Session

Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Franklin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines; Logan Riley Nimer

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

Education to Practicing Professionals: A Case Study has been submitted forpresentation at this conference discussing the evolution of the CAI program.The two courses under study are Construction Safety CE 475/575 and Methods Improvement CE479L/579L both offered by the Civil Engineering Department. These two courses have beenoffered in a traditional mode for many years, but were offered fully online for the first time inspring 2003 using the WebCT platform. A majority of the students enrolled in these courses arepracticing professionals in the construction field.This case study begins by describing the evaluation methods developed for CAI courses. Thefirst evaluation step was to conduct an initial instructional design evaluation of the two

Conference Session

Technology in Mechanics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford Univeristy; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. Anotheroption is to impose a shorter time limit to add pressure, as tough time constraints are often areality in real engineering practice. As far as integrating the game into the ENGR 14 curriculum, the leading idea proposed by thestudents was to have the students play after learning about moments but before starting thebridge project. The students could also work on the same team they would work on for thebridge project to help them to learn how to work together and to work through issues they mightotherwise have later.Going forward, we plan to administer pre- and post-game surveys to ensure that students meetthe stated learning objectives. As previously mentioned, these include becoming morecomfortable working in teams and dealing with problems in

Conference Session

Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Cao, Virginia Tech; Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Quality Based on Team that could be useful for training Chinese engineers Spirit Training. Research in Higher working in the global context Engineering Education, (6), 103-108. Duan Guijiang, & Xu Shixin. (2012). Reported experience of an instructional team in the Improving students' teamwork ability by program Manufacturing Management Information reforming a capstone design course. Systems in reforming a mandatory capstone design course Research in Higher Engineering by integrating various team training tools and modules and Education, (1), 132-137. teamwork assessments Wan Baikun, Li Qing, Yang Chunmei, & Reported a course reform project in a biomedical

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation* Daniel Raviv+, Melissa Morris+, Karen Ginsberg++ + Department of Electrical Engineering ++ Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu (561) 297 2773AbstractThis paper details data, analysis, and evaluation of one facet of innovation: ideation.Over the past six years college and high school students were exposed to several idea generationmethods in an

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Johnson-Glauch; Dong San Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Materials (GLAM) summer camp for high school girls at UIUC.Dong San Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dong San Choi is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; choi88@illinois.edu.Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is a teaching assistant professor with the Deprartment of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has a courtesy appointment as a research assis- tant professor with the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a