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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Assessing Sustainability Knowledge: A Framework of Concepts

Presented at NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Authors
  1. Dr. Alice L. Pawley Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-9117-4855 Purdue University, West Lafayette [biography]

    Alice L. Pawley is an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education with affiliations with the Women's Studies Program and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering (with distinction) from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women's studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu.

  2. Dr. Stephen R. Hoffmann Purdue University, West Lafayette [biography]

    Dr. Stephen Hoffmann is Assistant Head for First-Year Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette. His background is in chemistry, environmental science, and environmental engineering, and he has done work to bring sustainability concepts into a wide variety of courses in several disciplines.

  3. Dr. Monica E. Cardella Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-4229-6183 Purdue University, West Lafayette [biography]

    Monica Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an Affiliate in the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She plays a leadership role in Purdue's first-semester first-year engineering course which serves approximately 1,800 students each year. Her research focuses on the development of engineering thinking skills (primarily operationalized as design thinking and mathematical thinking) amongst students as young as 4-years-old, college students, as well as practicing professionals.

  4. Dr. Matthew W. Ohland Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4052-1452 Purdue University and Central Queensland University [biography]

    Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University and a Professorial Research Fellow at Central Queensland University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $12.8 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi.

  5. Ranjani Lakshman Rao Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University [biography]

    RANJANI RAO is a doctoral student in Organizational Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She earned her masters in Media, Technology and Society from the same department in 2008. Prior to joining Purdue, Ranjani worked as a journalist with Indo-Asian News Service in New Delhi, India after obtaining her BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University and Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. Ranjani’s research explorations in communication have included careers in the context of immigration, media and family communication, work-family dynamics and qualitative research methods in engineering contexts. Her master’s thesis looked at media coverage of child abuse and neglect focusing on the Greater Lafayette Journal and Courier’s coverage of the 2005 Aiyana Gauvin case.

  6. Dr. Abigail R. Jahiel Illinois Wesleyan University
  7. Dr. Thomas P. Seager Arizona State University [biography]

    Associate Professor
    School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment
    Arizona State University
    Tempe AZ

  8. Dr. Linda Vanasupa California Polytechnic State University [biography]

    Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State University since 1991. She also serves as co-director of the Center for Sustainability in Engineering at Cal Poly. Her life's work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions--alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and her B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Michigan Technological University.

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