Rose-Hulman faculty are at the forfront of engineering, science and mathematics education

Rose-Hulman faculty and academic staff present their educational research and projects at professional conferences throughout the year. To illustrate the range of these projects, below are links to some of the engineering, science and mathematics papers published by our faculty and staff.

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IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, July 2015, Limerick

(only RHIT authors listed – see conference program for complete citation information)
Sarah Summers and Anneliese Watt: Quick and Dirty Usability Testing in the Technical Communication Classroom
Julia Williams: Using Project Workflow to Teach Engineering Communication
Julia Williams: Making Academic Change Happen – Any Way We Can?

American Society for Engineering Education, June 2015, Seattle

(only RHIT authors listed – see abstract linked below for complete citation information)
Carlotta Berry: Teaching a First Course in Human-Robot Interaction
Carlotta Berry: Teaching an Electrical Circuits Course Online
Mark Minster, Rich House, Patsy Brackin, and Corey Taylor: Valuing, Learning: Revising a Sustainability Curriculum for First-Year Students
Ella Ingram and Julia Williams: Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills, and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators
Michelle Marincel Payne, Michael Robinson, and Jennifer Mueller Price: Developing a Course-based Master of Environmental Engineering Degree
Jennifer Mueller Price: Providing Students with Hands-on Experiences Through the Construction of a Treatment Wetland
Julia Williams: Assessment of the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy
Ella Ingram and Julia Williams: The Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE): Preparing Junior Colleagues
Don Richards: Understanding a New Paradigm for Engineering Science Education Using Knowledge about Student Learning
Richard Layton: Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories of Engineering Students: Year 3- NSF REE Grant 1129383
Jay McCormack: Using the EPSA Rubric and EPSA Score to Evaluate Student Learning at the Course and Program Level
Richard Layton: Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strategies—NSF Award 1431694
Richard Layton: The Rapid Adoption of SMARTER Teamwork Tools: the System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork
Deborah Walter: Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-on STEM
Rich House: Development and Application of the Sustainability Skills and Dispositions Scale to the Wicked Problems in Sustainability Initiative
Mario Simoni: Improving Learning in Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses Through Collaborative Workshops
Patrick Cunningham: Reflecting on Reflection: How Educators Experience the Opportunity to Talk About Supporting Student Reflection

Frontiers in Education, October 2014, Madrid

(only RHIT authors listed – see conference program for complete citation information)
Richard Layton: Your Data Deserve Better Than Pies and Bars: An R Graphics Workshop for the Timid.
Richard Layton and Rich House: Promoting More Effective Communication of Stories in the Data.
Richard Layton: A Disciplinary Comparison of Trajectories of U.S.A. Engineering Students.

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, October 2014, Pittsburgh

(only RHIT authors listed – see conference program for complete citation information)
Rich House, Jessica Livingston, Richard Layton, and Sean Moseley: Engineering Ethos in Environmental Public Policy Deliberation (Lufkin Award for Best Paper).
Julia Williams and Rich House: What Makes Teamwork Work?: Development of an Observation Protocol Rubric for Evaluating Teamwork.

American Society for Engineering Education, June 2014, Indianapolis

(only RHIT authors listed – see abstract linked below for complete citation information)
Renee Rogge, Glen Livesay, Jameel Ahmed, Bill Kline, Rob Bunch, and Mike Wollowski: The Innovation Canvas as a Teaching Tool in Capstone Design: A Reverse-Engineering Case Study
KC Dee, Glen Livesay, and Julia Williams: Preparing Your Teaching Portfolio
Anneliese Watt, Scott Kirkpatrick, and Ashley Bernal: What's in the Soup? Auto-ethnograhies from an Engineer, a Physicist, and an English Professor Regarding a Successful Multidisciplinary Grand Challenge Program
Scott Kirkpatrick, Maarij Syed, and Richard Liptak: Optical Filter Design, Fabrication and Characterization; A Multifaceted Approach to Project- Based Curriculum
Kevin Sutterer: Geology for Civil and Environmental Engineers – Setting Priorities, Developing Desk Study Skills, and Case Study-Based Learning
Ella Ingram, Rich House, Steve Chenoweth, KC Dee, Jameel Ahmed, Julia Williams, Craig Downing, and Don Richards: From Faculty to Change Agent: Lessons Learned in the Development and Implementation of a Change Workshop
Tina Hudson: Developing Critical Thinking Skills in a Mixed-Signal Test and Product Engineering Course
Julia Williams, Caroline Carvill, Rich House, Jessica Livingston, and Anneliese Watt: The Grandest Challenge: Models for Communication Development in Technical Contexts
Jim Hanson, John Aidoo, Kyle Kershaw, Matt Lovell: Structural Engineering Practicum: The First Course in a Master’s Program
Paul Leisher, Scott Kirkpatrick, Richard Liptak, Sergio Granieri, and Rob Bunch: An Activity in Design for Manufacturability – Concept Generation Through Volume Production in Less Than Three Hours
Jameel Ahmed, Renee Rogge, Bill Kline, Rob Bunch, Tom Mason, Mike Wollowski, and Glen Livesay: The Innovation Canvas: An Instructor's Guide
Mario Simoni, Bill Schindel, Xiaoyan Mu, Dan Moore, and Wayne Padgett: Practicing and Assessing Formal Systems Competencies in ECE Senior Design
Pat Carlson: Using Engineering to Address the Common Core Standards: A Four-Week Workshop (Curriculum Exchange)
Sean Moseley: Honest Expert Solutions Towards Cognitive Apprenticeship
Eva Andrijcic, Bill Schindel, and Craig Downing: Preparing Our Graduates to be More Effective Leaders In a World of Systems-Oriented Risk
Ashley Bernal, Scott Kirkpatrick, and Bill Schindel: Introducing Systems Competencies During Undergraduate Design
Bill Kline and Bill Schindel: The Innovation Competencies - Implications for Educating the Engineer of the Future
Dan Kawano: Video-based Online Learning: The Other Side of the Looking Glass
Matt Lovell: Transfer Effects of Challenge-Based Lessons in an Undergraduate Dynamics Course
Jennifer Mueller Price: Get Your Feet Wet! – Experiential Learning Activities along Lost Creek
Mario Simoni: Data Mining to Help Determine Sources of Difficulty in an Introductory Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Course
John Mirth: Capstone Project in a Freshman Solid Modeling Course
Carlotta Berry: Women of Color Engineering Faculty: An Examination of the Experiences and the Numbers
Ella Ingram: Graduate Student and Faculty Member: An Exploration of Career and Personal Decisions
Richard Layton: Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories of Engineering Students
Richard Layton: Student Demographics and Outcomes in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Including Migration between the Disciplines
Jay McCormack: Role of Artifacts in Creating a Self-Renewing Design and Manufacturing Community of Practice
Jay McCormack: Scenario and Scoring Sheet Development for Engineering Professional Skill Assessment
Jay McCormack: Using the EPSA Rubric to Evaluate Student Work in a Senior Level Professional Issues Course
Deborah Walter: Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-on STEM
Richard Layton: Characterizing and Modeling the Experience of Transfer Students in Engineering
Richard Layton: SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork

Frontiers in Education, October 2013, Oklahoma City

(only RHIT authors listed – see conference program for complete citation information)
Mario Simoni: Why are Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses so Difficult? How Can We Make Them More Accessible?
Richard Layton: Student Demographics and Outcomes in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
Deborah Walter: Models of Adoption and Best Practices for Mobile Hands-On Learning in Electrical Engineering.
Cary Laxer: Contemplations on Results from Investigating the Personal Epistemology of Computing.
Mario Simoni: Hands-On Activities with Portable Electronics.
Mario Simoni: Hands-On Electricity: An Active Learning Opportunity for High-School Physics.