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Karl Smith Karl Smith is Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Executive Co-Director STEM Education Center, and Director of Graduate Studies Infrastructure Systems Management and Engineering, Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. He also is the Cooperative Learning Professor, School of Engineering Education, College of Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Smith’s research and development interests include building research and innovation capabilities in engineering education; faculty and graduate student professional development; the role of cooperation in learning and design; problem formulation, modeling, and knowledge engineering; and project and knowledge management and leadership. Karl has over 30 years of experience working with faculty to redesign their courses and programs to enhance student learning. He adapted the cooperative learning model to engineering education, and in the past 15 years has focused on high-performance teamwork through his workshops and book Teamwork and Project Management (2014). His bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University and his Ph.D. is in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota. |
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Ann McKenna Ann McKenna is Professor and Chair, Department of Engineering & Computing Systems, College of Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University. Dr. McKenna’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and social processes of design, design teaching and learning, the role of adaptive expertise in design and innovation, the impact and diffusion of education innovations, and teaching approaches of engineering faculty. She has been an active participant in creating and teaching educational innovations for over 15 years, and has experience in working with faculty in professional development activities. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. |
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Christopher Swan Christopher Swan is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum Development in the School of Engineering and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. Dr. Swan holds additional appointments in the Department of Education, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. Active in the American Society for Engineering Education, he has served at various officer posts for the Environmental Engineering Division (2003-7) and the Community Engagement Division (2011 – present). His current research interests in engineering education focus on project-based learning and service-based pedagogies. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas – Austin and Sc.D. from MIT. |
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Shawn Jordan Shawn Jordan is Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Computing Systems, College of Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University. Dr. Jordan received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is an educational innovator both in and out of the classroom, having co-founded the STEAM Labs™ program, which challenges teams of middle and high school students to learn and apply the engineering design process and other science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts to build Rube Goldberg®-style machines in a project-based learning environment. Dr. Jordan also teaches sophomore, junior, and senior-level electrical engineering design courses using project-based methods to challenge students to design in context (e.g., entrepreneurial using the Business Model Canvas, user-centered, or alien-centered context). In 2012, he received an Arizona State University College of Technology and Innovation Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for his work mentoring student project teams. He has taught numerous workshops over the past 8 years on engineering design for faculty, educators, and K-12 students, including two multi-week workshops for engineering faculty from Vietnam on project-based learning. Dr. Jordan is actively working on several NSF grants, including an NSF Early Career award to develop culturally-contextualized engineering design curricula for middle school students on the Navajo Nation, an S-STEM grant to engage undergraduates in engineering community service, and two grants to study the educational pathways of adult and child Makers. |
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Russell Korte Russell Korte is Assistant Professor, Organization Learning, Performance, and Change, School of Education, Colorado State University. Dr. Korte’s research focuses on understanding the socio-cultural processes affecting the learning and performance of engineering students, graduates, and faculty. Recent work included developing innovative educational experiences for engineering students as a Fellow with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education and a member of the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois. He has been active for over 20 years in designing and delivering educational programs across a range of industries and educational institutions. He also has experience working with professionals in activities similar to the training program proposed here. Dr. Korte received his B.S. in Education, an M.B.A. in Marketing, and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development, with a doctoral minor in Business Administration and a Graduate Certificate in Adult Education from the University of Minnesota. |
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Micah Lande Dr. Micah Lande teaches human-centered design innovation at Arizona State University and researches how engineers learn and apply a design process to their work. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Computing Studies within the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. Dr. Lande regularly teaches “Foundations of Engineering Design,” “Human-Centered Design Innovation” and “Prototyping Engineering Innovation” to undergraduate students and has recently led workshops on design thinking, making and tinkering for high schools students and K12 educators. Prior to ASU, he led courses on “Evangelizing Design Thinking” and co-taught “Transformative Design” at Stanford’s d.school and was the lead teaching assistant for ME310 Global, a graduate course in globally distributed design and innovation, in Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Design Group. Dr. Lande is currently the PI for an NSF funded project investigating the educational pathways of adult Makers and is a co-PI on another NSF funded project on Young Makers that will start up in January. He is the faculty lead for the Maker Education Initiative’s Maker Corps program at Arizona State and serves on the Maker Corps national working group. Dr. Lande is an advisor to the CTI Make Club, develops summer Make Camps at CTI and develops curriculum for Make Clubs in area high schools. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design) from Stanford University's Center for Design Research. Dr. Lande is the Editor-in-Chief-emeritus of Ambidextrous Journal of Design, having produced 9 issues (2006-2011) that captured dozens of stories of the people and processes of design and Making. |
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Bob MacNeal Bob MacNeal is co-owner of Working Company, a Software Product Development company founded in 1998. Mr. MacNeal is a consultant, team coach, and software product developer with many years of software development experience in business, science, and educational domains. He consults with startups using the Lean Startup approach to help fledgling organizations iteratively drive toward minimum viable product releases during phased hypothesis testing and product discovery. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Product Owner. Mr. MacNeal is author of the teamwork-centric software blog Bobtuse. He contributed the “Agile Teams and Projects” chapter to the fourth edition of the textbook Teamwork and Project Management. Mr. MacNeal has a BS in Film and Television Production from Montana State University. He also received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota and was working toward a PhD in GeoEngineering at the University of Minnesota when he left to start his company. |
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Brandy Nagel Brandy Nagel is a social media coach and LinkedIn® trainer. She has trained hundreds of professionals on the technical and practical aspects of social media, as well as providing protocol and productivity advice. As a coach, Brandy has traveled the southeast United States, coaching executives on how to use social media for business and career development. Brandy also volunteers at Roswell United Methodist Church’s career ministry, helping professionals polish their profile. Brandy has spent more than a decade in marketing agencies and in the private sector. Previous clients include Pennzoil, Quaker State, Tony Roma’s Restaurants, Simmons Bedding Company and more. Most recently, Nagel worked at Georgia Tech’s Innovation Institute as a Marketing Catalyst. A frequent speaker, Brandy regularly presents on social media and personal branding. She received her B.A. in business from Brenau University and earned her MBA at Mercer University. Her book, Digitally Famous: Visibility Campaigns for Entrepreneurs was published in 2012. |