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Outstanding teaching and scholarly work by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology professors and students were recognized by their peers in engineering education during the American Society of Engineering Education’s Illinois/Indiana Section Conference conducted last weekend at Rose-Hulman.
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Best Student Poster: Senior biomedical engineering students Steven Maynard and Samantha Dick earned first place for a student poster on their research project on "Repetitive Stress Injuries Research Device" at the American Society of Engineering Education's Illinois/Indiana Section Conference. |
"Engineering Education at the Crossroads" was the theme of the three-day conference.
James Hanson, assistant professor of civil engineering, was honored as the section's outstanding teacher of the year and for having the best faculty paper that was presented at the conference.
Teaching awards are nothing new for Hanson. He received the 2006 Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award by the ASEE's Mechanics Division. He also has been earned the American Concrete Institute’s Young Member Award for Professional Achievement and the Daniel V. Terrell Award in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ best paper competition.
Hanson is conducting ongoing research as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project, titled “Using Metacognition to Teach Evaluation of Results in Structural Analysis Courses”; has implemented Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” in the Engineering Mechanics’ Introduction to Design course; and is studying the effectiveness of using writing-to-learn assignments in Engineering Mechanics’ Engineering Statics course. He specializes in structural analysis; structural design with reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, and steel; solid mechanics; fracture mechanics; and finite element analysis.
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Outstanding Teacher Award Winner: James Hanson (right), assistant professor of civil engineering, receives the Illinois/Indiana Section of the American Society of Engineering Education's Outstanding Teaching Award. He was also honored for having the best faculty paper at the section's recent conference. |
Hanson's award-winning paper on "Preliminary Results from Teaching Students How to Evaluate the Reasonableness of Results" summarizes the results of a two-year study, by Hanson and Rose-Hulman Psychology Professor Patrick Brophy, which combines training on metacognition with skills identified by practitioners to teach undergraduate civil engineering student how to evaluate the reasonableness of structural analysis results.
Kay C Dee, associate professor of applied biology, earned honorable mention honors for a research paper on "Putting Theory into Practice: Supplemental Learning Opportunities That Match Student Learning Styles." Other Rose-Hulman faculty members assisting on the project were mechanical engineering professors Phillip Cornwell, Donald Richards and Allen White, and applied biology and biomedical engineering professor Glen Livesay.
Sharon Sauer, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was recognized for being the outstanding ASEE campus representative. Sauer, Rose-Hulman's representative, spent nearly a year organizing this year's Illinois/Indiana section conference.
Regarding student presentations, senior biomedical engineering majors Samantha Dick and Steven Maynard earned first-place honors for a student poster on their research project on "Repetitive Stress Injuries Research Device." Renee Rogge, assistant professor of applied biology and biomedical engineering, was faculty advisor for the project.
Senior electrical engineering majors Daniel Baker, Gareth Shields and Christopher Valenta shared second place in the student paper competition for their report on "EMC Modeling of AC Motor Drive." Victor Sung, a senior electrical engineering major, earned third place for his paper on "Lumped Parameter Modeling of the Ideal Railgun: Examining Maximum Electromechanical Energy Conversion Efficiency." Edward Wheeler, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was the faculty advisor for both papers.
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Top Campus Representative: Sharon Sauer, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was named the outstanding campus representative for the American Society of Engineering Education's Illinois/Indiana section. |
Faculty from other universities receiving awards were Doug Tougaw, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Valparaiso University, with the section's outstanding service award; and Michele Strutz of Purdue University, who received honorable mention best paper honors for "A Retrospective Study of Skills, Traits, Influences, and School Experiences of Talented Engineers," which examined why students and engineers choose to study science and engineering.
Other students honored were Brad McNair of IUPU-Fort Wayne, first place in best student paper, for "Highway Geometric Design Using Excel"; Fuyue Li and Yinyan Zhao of Purdue University, honorable mention for best poster, for "Studies on Protein Stability in Sodium Alginate Solution"; and Peter Ifft of the University of Illinois-Chicago, honorable mention for best poster, for "Novel Multi-Modal System Facilitates Simultaneous Chemical and Electrophysiological Recordings in Ischemic Stroke Model."
Other Rose-Hulman faculty and staff members making presentations included John Aidoo, Jessica Anderson, Carlotta Berry, Fred Berry, Matt Boutell, Victoria Bowman, Patricia Carlson, Zac Chambers, Steve Chenoweth, Ed Doering, Patrick Ferro, Jerry Fine, Bill Foraker, Tina Hudson, Jonathan Labayo, Dale Long, Penney Miller, Sriram Mohan, Daniel Morris, Jennifer O’Connor, Lorraine Olson, Sandor Pethes, Michael Robinson, Renee Rogge, Yosi Shibberu, Richard Stamper, Kevin Sutterer, Luanne Tilstra, Deborah Walter and Edward Wheeler.
Faculty members that served as moderators for track sessions include Jessica Anderson, Bruce Black, Daniel Coronell, Dee, Sudipa Kirtley, Livesay, Scott McClellan, Sue Niezgoda and Sutterer.
More information about the conference can be found at www.rose-hulman.edu/aseeilin2008/welcome.htm. |
