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ASEE invites all attendees of the Annual Conference & Exposition to these special sessions:
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Free ticketed event
New Members as of 1/1/22 are eligible to attend as well as first time Annual Conference attendees.
Come hear what ASEE Membership and the Annual Conference is all about.
Presented by the VP of Membership Brian Self.
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
One of our most popular events.
Mix and Mingle with your friends and colleagues at the ASEE Division Mixer, a special event where the different divisions showcase what they do.
Convention Center Plaza , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we celebrated the tastes and sounds of Minneapolis!
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
As Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, Jodi Benson is responsible for the invention and commercialization of new food products and technologies which provide increasingly higher levels of well-being, ease and joy to meet consumers evolving food values. Most recently, Benson served as leader for our integrated ITQ Centers of Excellence, focused on the broad set of capabilities most critical for General Mills’ ongoing success, such as Food Safety, Nutrition, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs as well as Product Design & Innovation. It is the mission of this team to turn possibilities into realities. Benson has held multiple positions within ITQ which include leading the International Growth Team, living in France while leading the Global Fresh Dairy for Yoplait and Häagen-Dazs, Baking and Strategy & Innovation. Benson joined General Mills in 1990 as a Scientist II in R&D in the Pillsbury Division. Benson received her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. She has represented General Mills on the Häagen-Dazs Japan Board of Directors, the GMI Benefits Advisory committee and today serves on the General Mills Foundation Board of Trustees, 301 INC Board of Advisors, the Cereal Partners Worldwide Board of Directors, and the World Food Programme Board.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Free ticketed event
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your colleagues at the Grand Opening of the Exhibit Hall. Our exhibit hall is packed with exciting products, solutions, and technologies. Explore the new content while enjoying refreshments, catching up with old friends, and making new ones.
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Free ticketed event
Annual Academy of Fellows breakfast
This event is for ASEE Fellows only.
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE division posters are available for perusing during lunch in the Exhibit Hall. Explore Exhibit booths and see what posters the Divisions have to offer!
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Posters are arranged by Division and then Presenting Author Last Name
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues at this special session featuring Cooperate Member Council keynote speaker and the Best Overall PIC Paper Winner, Best Overall Zone Paper Winner, Best Diversity Equity and Inclusion Paper, and the Most Outstanding Teaching Award Winner
Bina Venkataraman answers a pivotal question of our time: How can we secure our future and do right by future generations? She parses the mistakes we make when imagining the future of our lives, businesses and communities, revealing how we can reclaim our innate foresight. What emerges is a surprising case for hope -- and a path to becoming the "good ancestors" we long to be.
TBD
Bina Venkataraman is an American journalist, author, and science & technology policy expert. She is currently the Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe and a fellow at New America. Since 2011, she has taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT. She formerly served as senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, directed global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and reported on the science desks of The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Venkataraman is an alumna of Brown University and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Escape the heat with a late-afternoon treat! Nothing says summer like a refreshing glass of sweet, cold lemonade. Escape the hot June temps and see what's “hot” on the Exhibit Hall Floor.
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Seasons Meeting Space, Minneapolis Convention Center
by invitation only.
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE’s exhibitors welcome you back for food and drink to start the day. Whether it's lab equipment, quality textbooks for your classes, or cutting-edge software, you'll likely find something interesting in the hall.
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Featuring the NSF Grantees Poster Session
Please note: Posters are arranged by Author last name
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ticketed event: ASEE Awards Lunch - $50.00 advanced registration and $60.00 on site registration
ASEE offers awards in a variety of areas, from best paper, to teaching recognition, to professional and technical honors, to a lifetime achievement award. This event showcases some of ASEE's best and brightest, including our national award winners. The lunch is complimentary for award winners and their guests. Others may attend for $50.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Room 211, Minneapolis Convention Center
For too long researchers have hid behind false notions of objectivity and and neutrality to avoid holding themselves accountable for the harms committed in the name of research.
However, as the racially-centered events of the last two years have demonstrated, the time for accountability is now. But rather than reflect on past wrongs, the Year of Racial Equity gives us the opportunity to look forward.
We must and should reimagine a new path forward for educational research. We must rethink several fundamental aspects of the research process: our roles as researchers, our relationship to various concepts (e.g. neutrality, objectivity, bias), even what research can and cannot do.
Our new path forward requires dismantling the status quo and rebuilding the research process to reflect a new set of goals and values, goals and values that empower us and challenge us to move beyond the white-centered way research exists today.
The purpose of this Distinguished Lecture is to begin a conversation on what a paradigmatic shift in engineering education research looks like. What does the path forward look like today? What does it look like in 10 years? In 20 years? Institutional change always starts with individuals and we have an opportunity to move the field of engineering education research forward in ways that empower everyone.
Stephanie Masta is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University, with courtesy appointments in the School of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering and the Department of American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Masta is one of the leading scholars in the field of Indigenous Education, as her research forefronts the centrality of Indigenous education within Curriculum Studies through the development and use of Indigenous methodologies to study Indigenous student experiences in educational contexts. She has extended her work on critical and Indigenous methodologies to engineering educational spaces, where she studies the experiences of Brown and Black students’ perspectives in engineering classrooms.
Her work in Indigenous education and engineering education has led to invited talks at institutions such as University of Arizona, Iowa State University, Hobart and William College, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, University of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel University, the University of Michigan, and Clemson University. In February 2020, she was the invited keynote speaker for the Racial Healing Project, an annual event at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. The Racial Healing Project is a major initiative by the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to address covert and overt manifestations of racism, to reconcile the historical trauma and legacies of racism in the United States, and to provide strategies to combat racism across campus.
Dr. Masta currently leads two research projects, Connecting Identity and Place: Understanding Indigenous Graduate Student Experiences in STEM, funded by the Spencer Foundation. She is also a co-PI on Identifying Marginalization and Allying Tendencies in Engineering Teams, funded by the NSF. In addition to these current projects, Dr. Masta served as PI on The Experiences of Native Women in Higher Education, funded by the Purdue University Susan Bulkeley Butler Research Fellowship, and Colonial Discourses: Challenging Dominant Narratives in U.S. History Curricula, funded by the Purdue Research Foundation.
She also served as co-PI for Four Directions: Building a Foundation for Native Scholars, funded through the Purdue University Diversity Transformation Award. Additionally, Dr. Masta has authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, including articles in the high-impact journals, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Teaching in Higher Education and Studies in Engineering Education.
She has written one book chapter titled, "How American Indian students make sense of school success," and has co-edited one book, "Ideating pedagogy in troubled times: Approaches to identity, theory, teaching, and research."
Collectively, Dr. Masta's scholarship speaks to a wide range of educators, researchers, and community members interested in the use of critical and Indigenous methodologies to understand racism and marginalization in educational spaces.
Dr. Masta has offered more than 35 international, national, and regional presentations at Indigenous education, curriculum studies, engineering education, and educational research conferences.
Auditorium 2, Minneapolis Convention Center
A co-sponsoring group of Community Engagement, LEES, and Equity, Culture & Social Justice support Erin Cech as a distinguished lecturer for the Annual Conference 2022. Erin will primarily outline the main arguments from her recent book exploring the passion principle. For engineering students, educators, and engineering professionals we hope that the lecture would encourage us to think through how inequities in success and bouncing back from failure develop from passion-seekers differential access to springboards and safety nets.
Second, passion-seeking can entrench occupational gender and race segregation when entwined with social biases about who fits in what fields.
Finally, passion can be exploited by employers and managers in such a way that the passion principle reinforces neoliberal norms of personal responsibility that obfuscate institutions from blame for addressing structural obstacles that students and workers face.
The “great quit†and skepticism of higher education is arguably a moment of reconciling the tensions.
Follow your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. In this talk, I discuss my forthcoming book on this ubiquitous cultural narrative that I call the passion principle. The passion principle is rooted in tensions between postindustrial capitalism and cultural norms of self-expression and is compelling to college-educated career aspirants and workers because passion is presumed to motivate the hard work required for success while providing opportunities for meaning and self-expression.
Although passion-seeking seems like a promising option for individuals hoping to avoid drudgery in their labor force participation, I argue that the passion principle has a dark side: it reinforces socio-economic disadvantages and occupational segregation among career aspirants and workers in the aggregate and helps reproduce an exploited, overworked white collar labor force.
These findings have implications for cultural notions of "good work" popular in higher education and the US workforce and raises broader questions about what it means when becoming a dedicated labor force participant feels like an act of self-fulfillment
.Dr. Erin Cech is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and was on faculty at Rice University.
She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2011 from UC San Diego and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Cech's research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction--especially through seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices.
Her research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Sociology, and the American Sociological Review. Erin Cech has been awarded best papers at ASEE conferences for work related to inequality, diversity, and exclusions in engineering and cultures of engineering. Her first book, The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (UCalifornia Press) is out Fall 2021 and her co-authored book with Mary Blair-Loy, Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering (UChicago Press) is out in 2022.
Her research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and has been covered by The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Time, and Harvard Business Review. In 2020, she was named one of Business Equality Magazine's 40 LGBTQ+ Leaders Under 40.
Auditorium 3, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE has taken on several DEI initiatives over the years, the current Year of Impact on Racial Equity is a case in point.
The topic for this distinguished lecture continues the conversation of justice and inclusion within higher education, particularly in the world of STEM.
The invited speakers are three leading experts in the field of racial, ethnic, gender, LGBTQ+, and intersectional issues. They have held leadership positions in ASEE and in other institutions where they have promoted engagement in application of their own research.
Drs. Kelly J. Cross, Stephanie Farrell, and Bryce Hughes will use their experience editing a book on Queering STEM Culture to bring powerful narratives of inclusion and exclusion from our own STEM post-secondary peers to the attention of ASEE. It is a bit unusual in that all three co-editors will be on stage, but we hope that the multiple standpoints will represent the values of diversity ASEE members promote.
The talk will be both reflection on existing challenges as well as guidance to become allies.Book SummaryAdopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways. Offering contributions from students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators, the volume highlights prevailing issues of heteronormativity and marginalization across a range of STEM disciplines.
Autoethnographic accounts place minority experiences within the broader context of social and cultural phenomena to reveal subtle and overt forms of exclusion, and systematic barriers to participation in STEM professions, academia, and research.
Finally, the book offers key recommendations to inform future research and practice. This volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, engineering education, and the sociology of education more broadly. Those involved with diversity, equity, and inclusion within education, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies will also benefit from this volume.
Editor, Dr. Kelly J. Cross, assistant professor of chemical engineering at University of Nevada Reno, is a culturally responsive practitioner, researcher, and educational leader. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in STEM, identity construction, intersectionality, teamwork and communication skills, and educational assessment. Her teaching philosophy focuses on student centered approaches such as problem-based learning and culturally relevant pedagogy. Dr. Cross' complimentary professional activities promote inclusive excellence through collaboration.
Professor and Chair of Experimental Engineering Education
Rowan University
Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Interim Dean and Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education Department in the Henry M. Rowan College at Rowan University (USA). She is the immediate past president of ASEE. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).
Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education
Montana State University
Bryce Hughes, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University. In 2018, he published one of the first studies showing that LGBQ students are more likely to leave STEM fields than their heterosexual peers. Dr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from Gonzaga University, a Master of Arts in Student Development Administration from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.
He has co-wrote and/or facilitated Safe Zone type trainings at two institutions in addition to ASEE and helped spearhead establishment of an LGBT Resource Center at Gonzaga, one of the first located at a Catholic university. Before moving into a faculty role, Dr. Hughes oversaw a peer mentoring program in Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Green River College and coordinated the LGBT Resource Center at Gonzaga University.
TBD, Minneapolis Convention Center
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"
These words were penned by the scholar, reverend, and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while sitting in a Birmingham city jail in 1963. His righteous indignation was on full display as he felt frustrated that the white people who expressed sympathy with his pursuit of justice were more a hindrance to his efforts than the white people who were ardently against justice for Black people. King's words resonate with me almost 60 years later, though our current circumstance is not entirely analogous.
Today, my efforts, and those of many Black friends and colleagues, to actualize racial equity in engineering education are constrained greatly by our :
"well-intentioned" and sympathetic colleagues. Unlike King who was referencing white moderates, I refer to people of all races, as anti-Black prejudice and internalized racism expand perpetrators beyond just white people.
In this address, I will discuss how shallow understanding, a superficial understanding of the contributing factors to racial inequity, remains a grand challenge to racial equity in engineering education. I will share my thoughts on the implications of this wicked problem for engineering teaching, research, and practice.
Dr. James Holly, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and core faculty member within the Engineering Education Research program at the University of Michigan. He earned a bachelors degree from Tuskegee University and a masters degree from Michigan State University, both in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his doctorate in Engineering Education from Purdue University.
His research paradigm is shaped by his experiences growing up in a Black church within a Black city and later studying engineering at Tuskegee University, a Black institution, three spaces where Blackness is both normal and esteemed. As such, he sees his teaching, research, and service as promoting pro-Blackness, affirming the humanity and epistemic authority of Black people in engineering education.
His scholarship focuses on the ways disciplinary knowledge (i.e., mechanical engineering) reinforces racialized power, the role of culture and cognition in teaching and learning, and preparing pre-college engineering educators to identify and counteract racial inequity. He helped create the Equity, Culture, and Social Justice in Education Division within ASEE, and serves on the Editorial Board for both the Journal of Engineering Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research.
Room 208, Minneapolis Convention Center
2021 Best PIC And Zone Papers
Please note: Best Overall PIC Paper and Best Overall Zone Paper will be featured at the Tuesday Plenary
Auditorium 1 , Minneapolis Convention Center
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:Renewable Energy Education, Training, and Outreach in the Midwest
Nick Hylla is the Executive Director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association where he works in partnership with organizations throughout the Midwest to advance renewable energy education and market development initiatives.
Nick holds an MS degree in natural resource management, has more than 10 years of experience in non-profit leadership, and serves as the Principal Investigator on two US Dept. of Energy cooperative agreements as part of the SunShot Initiative. These efforts, focused on reducing cost and increasing market penetration for solar PV systems, have supported the development of the Midwest Grow Solar Partnership and the Solar University Network.
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we say Farewell to President Adrienne Minerick and Welcome incoming President Jenna Carpenter
as we look forward to Baltimore, Maryland, site of the 2023 Annual Conference & Exposition.
This session will also feature the Poster Board Presentations from the Global Forum
Adrienne R. Minerick joined the faculty at Michigan Tech as an Associate Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Professor in 2015. In addition to the listed titles, she also serves as an Affiliated Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan Tech.
Minerick's primary area of research is electrokinetics with a focus on medical microdevices, blood cell dynamics, and point of care diagnostics. Her group's primary area of specialty is dielectrophoresis which utilizes nonuniform AC fields to manipulate polarizable cells and other dielectric biomaterials.
She has received numerous honors and awards, including the distinction of Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), a National Science Foundation 2007 CAREER Award, the 2011 Raymond W. Fahien Award, Chemical Engineering Division, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Michigan Tech's Fredrick D. Williams Instructional Innovation Award, a New Investigator Research Award from Sigma Xi Chapter, one from ASEE-SE, and was the recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. She and her students have published over 70 book chapters, archival journal publications or proceedings articles and earned 23 best paper/presentation awards.
Minerick previously served as the President of the American Electrophoresis Society (www.aesociety.org) and on the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Board of Directors as First Vice President and Professional Interest Council (PIC) I Chair. She also chaired ASEE's National Diversity Committee. Her research and service interests regularly intersect and involve underserved individuals with an emphasis on research experiences to increase engagement and retention.
Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. With a hands-on, project-based approach all four years, Campbell School of Engineering focuses on design and utilizes unique classlabs to seamlessly integrate lecture and lab. The program also emphasizes teaming, communication skills, student internships, professional engineering licensure, professional development training and service learning. The School has earned a Bronze Award from the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program and is a KEEN Partner Institution.
Prior to coming to Campbell, Carpenter was Wayne and Juanita Spinks Endowed Professor, associate dean for undergraduate studies and director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science. A Corsicana, Texas, native, Carpenter earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Louisiana Tech and her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Louisiana State University, where she was an Alumni Federation Fellow. Her research focuses on integrated STEM curricula and improving the number and success of women in engineering, with over $4.3 million in funding to date.
Carpenter is a member of the U.S. Engineering Deans Council Executive Committee, where she co-chairs the Undergraduate Experience Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Global Engineering Deans Council. She is chairing the Pilot Program Ad-Hoc Committee on the Gulf Scholars Program for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Carpenter served for seven years as chair of the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and an Engineering Program Evaluator for ABET. She is a past president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for the American Society for Engineering Education, and past first vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. She has a TEDx Talk entitled: “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why aren’t They Here?” She was awarded the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2019. In October 2015, Dreambox Learning named Carpenter one of its 10 Women in STEM Who Rock.
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Free ticketed event
New Members as of 1/1/22 are eligible to attend as well as first time Annual Conference attendees.
Come hear what ASEE Membership and the Annual Conference is all about.
Presented by the VP of Membership Brian Self.
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
One of our most popular events.
Mix and Mingle with your friends and colleagues at the ASEE Division Mixer, a special event where the different divisions showcase what they do.
Convention Center Plaza , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we celebrated the tastes and sounds of Minneapolis!
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
As Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, Jodi Benson is responsible for the invention and commercialization of new food products and technologies which provide increasingly higher levels of well-being, ease and joy to meet consumers evolving food values. Most recently, Benson served as leader for our integrated ITQ Centers of Excellence, focused on the broad set of capabilities most critical for General Mills’ ongoing success, such as Food Safety, Nutrition, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs as well as Product Design & Innovation. It is the mission of this team to turn possibilities into realities. Benson has held multiple positions within ITQ which include leading the International Growth Team, living in France while leading the Global Fresh Dairy for Yoplait and Häagen-Dazs, Baking and Strategy & Innovation. Benson joined General Mills in 1990 as a Scientist II in R&D in the Pillsbury Division. Benson received her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. She has represented General Mills on the Häagen-Dazs Japan Board of Directors, the GMI Benefits Advisory committee and today serves on the General Mills Foundation Board of Trustees, 301 INC Board of Advisors, the Cereal Partners Worldwide Board of Directors, and the World Food Programme Board.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Free ticketed event
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your colleagues at the Grand Opening of the Exhibit Hall. Our exhibit hall is packed with exciting products, solutions, and technologies. Explore the new content while enjoying refreshments, catching up with old friends, and making new ones.
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Free ticketed event
Annual Academy of Fellows breakfast
This event is for ASEE Fellows only.
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE division posters are available for perusing during lunch in the Exhibit Hall. Explore Exhibit booths and see what posters the Divisions have to offer!
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Posters are arranged by Division and then Presenting Author Last Name
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues at this special session featuring Cooperate Member Council keynote speaker and the Best Overall PIC Paper Winner, Best Overall Zone Paper Winner, Best Diversity Equity and Inclusion Paper, and the Most Outstanding Teaching Award Winner
Bina Venkataraman answers a pivotal question of our time: How can we secure our future and do right by future generations? She parses the mistakes we make when imagining the future of our lives, businesses and communities, revealing how we can reclaim our innate foresight. What emerges is a surprising case for hope -- and a path to becoming the "good ancestors" we long to be.
TBD
Bina Venkataraman is an American journalist, author, and science & technology policy expert. She is currently the Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe and a fellow at New America. Since 2011, she has taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT. She formerly served as senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, directed global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and reported on the science desks of The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Venkataraman is an alumna of Brown University and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Escape the heat with a late-afternoon treat! Nothing says summer like a refreshing glass of sweet, cold lemonade. Escape the hot June temps and see what's “hot” on the Exhibit Hall Floor.
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Seasons Meeting Space, Minneapolis Convention Center
by invitation only.
Exhibit Hall B&C Foyer , Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we jump-start our day with a renewing stretch and meditation class!
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit Hall B&C, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE’s exhibitors welcome you back for food and drink to start the day. Whether it's lab equipment, quality textbooks for your classes, or cutting-edge software, you'll likely find something interesting in the hall.
This event is complimentary for all attendees.
Featuring the NSF Grantees Poster Session
Please note: Posters are arranged by Author last name
Ballroom B, Minneapolis Convention Center
Ticketed event: ASEE Awards Lunch - $50.00 advanced registration and $60.00 on site registration
ASEE offers awards in a variety of areas, from best paper, to teaching recognition, to professional and technical honors, to a lifetime achievement award. This event showcases some of ASEE's best and brightest, including our national award winners. The lunch is complimentary for award winners and their guests. Others may attend for $50.
Take this time to relax, refresh, and catch up on emails! Then return ready to attend more of the exciting sessions the ASEE Annual Conference has to offer!
Room 211, Minneapolis Convention Center
For too long researchers have hid behind false notions of objectivity and and neutrality to avoid holding themselves accountable for the harms committed in the name of research.
However, as the racially-centered events of the last two years have demonstrated, the time for accountability is now. But rather than reflect on past wrongs, the Year of Racial Equity gives us the opportunity to look forward.
We must and should reimagine a new path forward for educational research. We must rethink several fundamental aspects of the research process: our roles as researchers, our relationship to various concepts (e.g. neutrality, objectivity, bias), even what research can and cannot do.
Our new path forward requires dismantling the status quo and rebuilding the research process to reflect a new set of goals and values, goals and values that empower us and challenge us to move beyond the white-centered way research exists today.
The purpose of this Distinguished Lecture is to begin a conversation on what a paradigmatic shift in engineering education research looks like. What does the path forward look like today? What does it look like in 10 years? In 20 years? Institutional change always starts with individuals and we have an opportunity to move the field of engineering education research forward in ways that empower everyone.
Stephanie Masta is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University, with courtesy appointments in the School of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering and the Department of American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Masta is one of the leading scholars in the field of Indigenous Education, as her research forefronts the centrality of Indigenous education within Curriculum Studies through the development and use of Indigenous methodologies to study Indigenous student experiences in educational contexts. She has extended her work on critical and Indigenous methodologies to engineering educational spaces, where she studies the experiences of Brown and Black students’ perspectives in engineering classrooms.
Her work in Indigenous education and engineering education has led to invited talks at institutions such as University of Arizona, Iowa State University, Hobart and William College, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, University of Colorado-Boulder, Drexel University, the University of Michigan, and Clemson University. In February 2020, she was the invited keynote speaker for the Racial Healing Project, an annual event at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. The Racial Healing Project is a major initiative by the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to address covert and overt manifestations of racism, to reconcile the historical trauma and legacies of racism in the United States, and to provide strategies to combat racism across campus.
Dr. Masta currently leads two research projects, Connecting Identity and Place: Understanding Indigenous Graduate Student Experiences in STEM, funded by the Spencer Foundation. She is also a co-PI on Identifying Marginalization and Allying Tendencies in Engineering Teams, funded by the NSF. In addition to these current projects, Dr. Masta served as PI on The Experiences of Native Women in Higher Education, funded by the Purdue University Susan Bulkeley Butler Research Fellowship, and Colonial Discourses: Challenging Dominant Narratives in U.S. History Curricula, funded by the Purdue Research Foundation.
She also served as co-PI for Four Directions: Building a Foundation for Native Scholars, funded through the Purdue University Diversity Transformation Award. Additionally, Dr. Masta has authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, including articles in the high-impact journals, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Teaching in Higher Education and Studies in Engineering Education.
She has written one book chapter titled, "How American Indian students make sense of school success," and has co-edited one book, "Ideating pedagogy in troubled times: Approaches to identity, theory, teaching, and research."
Collectively, Dr. Masta's scholarship speaks to a wide range of educators, researchers, and community members interested in the use of critical and Indigenous methodologies to understand racism and marginalization in educational spaces.
Dr. Masta has offered more than 35 international, national, and regional presentations at Indigenous education, curriculum studies, engineering education, and educational research conferences.
Auditorium 2, Minneapolis Convention Center
A co-sponsoring group of Community Engagement, LEES, and Equity, Culture & Social Justice support Erin Cech as a distinguished lecturer for the Annual Conference 2022. Erin will primarily outline the main arguments from her recent book exploring the passion principle. For engineering students, educators, and engineering professionals we hope that the lecture would encourage us to think through how inequities in success and bouncing back from failure develop from passion-seekers differential access to springboards and safety nets.
Second, passion-seeking can entrench occupational gender and race segregation when entwined with social biases about who fits in what fields.
Finally, passion can be exploited by employers and managers in such a way that the passion principle reinforces neoliberal norms of personal responsibility that obfuscate institutions from blame for addressing structural obstacles that students and workers face.
The “great quit†and skepticism of higher education is arguably a moment of reconciling the tensions.
Follow your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. In this talk, I discuss my forthcoming book on this ubiquitous cultural narrative that I call the passion principle. The passion principle is rooted in tensions between postindustrial capitalism and cultural norms of self-expression and is compelling to college-educated career aspirants and workers because passion is presumed to motivate the hard work required for success while providing opportunities for meaning and self-expression.
Although passion-seeking seems like a promising option for individuals hoping to avoid drudgery in their labor force participation, I argue that the passion principle has a dark side: it reinforces socio-economic disadvantages and occupational segregation among career aspirants and workers in the aggregate and helps reproduce an exploited, overworked white collar labor force.
These findings have implications for cultural notions of "good work" popular in higher education and the US workforce and raises broader questions about what it means when becoming a dedicated labor force participant feels like an act of self-fulfillment
.Dr. Erin Cech is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and was on faculty at Rice University.
She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2011 from UC San Diego and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Cech's research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction--especially through seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices.
Her research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Sociology, and the American Sociological Review. Erin Cech has been awarded best papers at ASEE conferences for work related to inequality, diversity, and exclusions in engineering and cultures of engineering. Her first book, The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (UCalifornia Press) is out Fall 2021 and her co-authored book with Mary Blair-Loy, Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering (UChicago Press) is out in 2022.
Her research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and has been covered by The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Time, and Harvard Business Review. In 2020, she was named one of Business Equality Magazine's 40 LGBTQ+ Leaders Under 40.
Auditorium 3, Minneapolis Convention Center
ASEE has taken on several DEI initiatives over the years, the current Year of Impact on Racial Equity is a case in point.
The topic for this distinguished lecture continues the conversation of justice and inclusion within higher education, particularly in the world of STEM.
The invited speakers are three leading experts in the field of racial, ethnic, gender, LGBTQ+, and intersectional issues. They have held leadership positions in ASEE and in other institutions where they have promoted engagement in application of their own research.
Drs. Kelly J. Cross, Stephanie Farrell, and Bryce Hughes will use their experience editing a book on Queering STEM Culture to bring powerful narratives of inclusion and exclusion from our own STEM post-secondary peers to the attention of ASEE. It is a bit unusual in that all three co-editors will be on stage, but we hope that the multiple standpoints will represent the values of diversity ASEE members promote.
The talk will be both reflection on existing challenges as well as guidance to become allies.Book SummaryAdopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways. Offering contributions from students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators, the volume highlights prevailing issues of heteronormativity and marginalization across a range of STEM disciplines.
Autoethnographic accounts place minority experiences within the broader context of social and cultural phenomena to reveal subtle and overt forms of exclusion, and systematic barriers to participation in STEM professions, academia, and research.
Finally, the book offers key recommendations to inform future research and practice. This volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, engineering education, and the sociology of education more broadly. Those involved with diversity, equity, and inclusion within education, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies will also benefit from this volume.
Editor, Dr. Kelly J. Cross, assistant professor of chemical engineering at University of Nevada Reno, is a culturally responsive practitioner, researcher, and educational leader. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in STEM, identity construction, intersectionality, teamwork and communication skills, and educational assessment. Her teaching philosophy focuses on student centered approaches such as problem-based learning and culturally relevant pedagogy. Dr. Cross' complimentary professional activities promote inclusive excellence through collaboration.
Professor and Chair of Experimental Engineering Education
Rowan University
Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Interim Dean and Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education Department in the Henry M. Rowan College at Rowan University (USA). She is the immediate past president of ASEE. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).
Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education
Montana State University
Bryce Hughes, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University. In 2018, he published one of the first studies showing that LGBQ students are more likely to leave STEM fields than their heterosexual peers. Dr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from Gonzaga University, a Master of Arts in Student Development Administration from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.
He has co-wrote and/or facilitated Safe Zone type trainings at two institutions in addition to ASEE and helped spearhead establishment of an LGBT Resource Center at Gonzaga, one of the first located at a Catholic university. Before moving into a faculty role, Dr. Hughes oversaw a peer mentoring program in Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Green River College and coordinated the LGBT Resource Center at Gonzaga University.
TBD, Minneapolis Convention Center
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"
These words were penned by the scholar, reverend, and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while sitting in a Birmingham city jail in 1963. His righteous indignation was on full display as he felt frustrated that the white people who expressed sympathy with his pursuit of justice were more a hindrance to his efforts than the white people who were ardently against justice for Black people. King's words resonate with me almost 60 years later, though our current circumstance is not entirely analogous.
Today, my efforts, and those of many Black friends and colleagues, to actualize racial equity in engineering education are constrained greatly by our :
"well-intentioned" and sympathetic colleagues. Unlike King who was referencing white moderates, I refer to people of all races, as anti-Black prejudice and internalized racism expand perpetrators beyond just white people.
In this address, I will discuss how shallow understanding, a superficial understanding of the contributing factors to racial inequity, remains a grand challenge to racial equity in engineering education. I will share my thoughts on the implications of this wicked problem for engineering teaching, research, and practice.
Dr. James Holly, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and core faculty member within the Engineering Education Research program at the University of Michigan. He earned a bachelors degree from Tuskegee University and a masters degree from Michigan State University, both in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his doctorate in Engineering Education from Purdue University.
His research paradigm is shaped by his experiences growing up in a Black church within a Black city and later studying engineering at Tuskegee University, a Black institution, three spaces where Blackness is both normal and esteemed. As such, he sees his teaching, research, and service as promoting pro-Blackness, affirming the humanity and epistemic authority of Black people in engineering education.
His scholarship focuses on the ways disciplinary knowledge (i.e., mechanical engineering) reinforces racialized power, the role of culture and cognition in teaching and learning, and preparing pre-college engineering educators to identify and counteract racial inequity. He helped create the Equity, Culture, and Social Justice in Education Division within ASEE, and serves on the Editorial Board for both the Journal of Engineering Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research.
Room 208, Minneapolis Convention Center
2021 Best PIC And Zone Papers
Please note: Best Overall PIC Paper and Best Overall Zone Paper will be featured at the Tuesday Plenary
Auditorium 1 , Minneapolis Convention Center
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:Renewable Energy Education, Training, and Outreach in the Midwest
Nick Hylla is the Executive Director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association where he works in partnership with organizations throughout the Midwest to advance renewable energy education and market development initiatives.
Nick holds an MS degree in natural resource management, has more than 10 years of experience in non-profit leadership, and serves as the Principal Investigator on two US Dept. of Energy cooperative agreements as part of the SunShot Initiative. These efforts, focused on reducing cost and increasing market penetration for solar PV systems, have supported the development of the Midwest Grow Solar Partnership and the Solar University Network.
Ballroom A, Minneapolis Convention Center
Join your friends and colleagues as we say Farewell to President Adrienne Minerick and Welcome incoming President Jenna Carpenter
as we look forward to Baltimore, Maryland, site of the 2023 Annual Conference & Exposition.
This session will also feature the Poster Board Presentations from the Global Forum
Adrienne R. Minerick joined the faculty at Michigan Tech as an Associate Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Professor in 2015. In addition to the listed titles, she also serves as an Affiliated Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan Tech.
Minerick's primary area of research is electrokinetics with a focus on medical microdevices, blood cell dynamics, and point of care diagnostics. Her group's primary area of specialty is dielectrophoresis which utilizes nonuniform AC fields to manipulate polarizable cells and other dielectric biomaterials.
She has received numerous honors and awards, including the distinction of Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), a National Science Foundation 2007 CAREER Award, the 2011 Raymond W. Fahien Award, Chemical Engineering Division, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Michigan Tech's Fredrick D. Williams Instructional Innovation Award, a New Investigator Research Award from Sigma Xi Chapter, one from ASEE-SE, and was the recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. She and her students have published over 70 book chapters, archival journal publications or proceedings articles and earned 23 best paper/presentation awards.
Minerick previously served as the President of the American Electrophoresis Society (www.aesociety.org) and on the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Board of Directors as First Vice President and Professional Interest Council (PIC) I Chair. She also chaired ASEE's National Diversity Committee. Her research and service interests regularly intersect and involve underserved individuals with an emphasis on research experiences to increase engagement and retention.
Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. With a hands-on, project-based approach all four years, Campbell School of Engineering focuses on design and utilizes unique classlabs to seamlessly integrate lecture and lab. The program also emphasizes teaming, communication skills, student internships, professional engineering licensure, professional development training and service learning. The School has earned a Bronze Award from the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program and is a KEEN Partner Institution.
Prior to coming to Campbell, Carpenter was Wayne and Juanita Spinks Endowed Professor, associate dean for undergraduate studies and director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science. A Corsicana, Texas, native, Carpenter earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Louisiana Tech and her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Louisiana State University, where she was an Alumni Federation Fellow. Her research focuses on integrated STEM curricula and improving the number and success of women in engineering, with over $4.3 million in funding to date.
Carpenter is a member of the U.S. Engineering Deans Council Executive Committee, where she co-chairs the Undergraduate Experience Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Global Engineering Deans Council. She is chairing the Pilot Program Ad-Hoc Committee on the Gulf Scholars Program for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Carpenter served for seven years as chair of the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and an Engineering Program Evaluator for ABET. She is a past president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for the American Society for Engineering Education, and past first vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. She has a TEDx Talk entitled: “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why aren’t They Here?” She was awarded the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2019. In October 2015, Dreambox Learning named Carpenter one of its 10 Women in STEM Who Rock.
