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Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Conrad Tucker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Design Technology And Professional Programs (SEDTAPP) and the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. He also holds an Affiliate Faculty position in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory and his research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of data mining/knowledge discovery and optimization. He is interested in engineering design and engineering education in the areas of product design, personalized learning and healthcare.

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Prof. Dave Raj Raman

Professor and Associate Chair for Teaching
Iowa State University

Raman is Professor and Associate Chair for Teaching in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. He oversees curricula and accreditation for two engineering degree programs, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, oversees three NSF/USDA funded undergraduate research experience programs, serves as education director for two multi-year, multi-institutional research centers, and conducts technoeconomic and lifecycle analyses research on bioprocessing systems. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in Electrical Engineering from RIT and a PhD in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell, and has been recognized with departmental, college, and ...

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Dr. Steve Richard Duke

Associate Dean for Academics
Auburn University

Steve Duke is the associate dean for academics in Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the Alumni Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. He joined Auburn in 1996, with degrees from Georgia Tech and Illinois (PhD). His research is in transport phenomena, therapeutic particles, and alternative fuels. He served as AIChE student chapter advisor, AIChE Operating Council member, and co-director for a NSF REU site. He founded and advises the college's student organization and study abroad technology partnership with Andean communities in Bolivia. He has received the college's Walker Superior Teaching Award (three times) and the SGA Faculty Award.

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Prof. Avik Ghosh

Technology based hierarchical learning: Unleashing the power of simulation and gaming software
University of Virginia

Avik Ghosh is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. He has over 80 papers and book chapters published in the areas of computational nanoelectronics, and has given over 90 invited lectures worldwide, with over 2400 citations. He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), senior member of the IEEE, and has received the All University Teaching Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the best paper award at the 2006 ISSSR conference organized by the Army Research Office, the UVa Teaching fellowship and the Charles Brown New Faculty Teaching Award.

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Dr. Jenna R Jambeck

United States

Assistant Professor
University of Georgia

Jenna Jambeck is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at UGA (since 2009). She received her PhD in environmental engineering from University of Florida (2004), then completed an ORISE post-doc at the US EPA ORD in Research Triangle Park. She was an Assistant Research Professor at University of New Hampshire from 2005–2009. Dr. Jambeck conducts research and teaches environmental engineering, specializing in solid waste. Her work often interweaves social context and sciences with technical aspects. She has conducted projects including contaminant fate and transport during waste beneficial use, sustainable and innovative waste management practices, recycling and marine debris.

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Dr. Kerry Meyers

Director, First-Year Engineering Program and Assistant Professor Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Youngstown State University

Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the early stages of student development and progress. Her core engineering educational background is Mechanical Engineering and doctoral work is in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University.

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Prof. Nicholas R Gans

United States

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Gans is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas. His current research includes control of self-optimizing autonomous sensors to maximize information, human-machine interfaces, vision-based control of autonomous ground and air vehicles, and use of hyperspectral, thermal and range cameras. Dr. Gans earned his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering and his Ph.D. in systems and entrepreneurial engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. He was a postdoc researcher with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida and with the National Research Council and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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Prof. Craig B. Arnold

Professor
Princeton University

Craig B. Arnold is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of the Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials at Princeton University. His research interests range from basic to applied science within the areas of materials and optical physics. He earned his PhD. in condensed-matter physics from Harvard University in 2000, and was an NRC post-doctoral fellow prior to joining the faculty at Princeton in 2003. Previous awards include the ONR young investigator award and the NSF Career award as well as being a participant in the 2011 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

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Dr. Rashaunda M. Henderson

United States

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

Rashaunda M. Henderson was born in Shreveport, LA. She received the BSEE degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee AL, in 1992, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007 she worked as a device engineer in semiconductor research and development at Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor. In Fall 2007, she joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Dallas as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include microwave circuit design and developing novel processing techniques to integrate and package millimeter-wave silicon-based integrated circuits.

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Prof. Ismail Fidan

Professor
Tennessee Tech University

Dr. Fidan is a Tenured Full Professor at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology for the last 13 years. He has teaching and research interests in additive manufacturing, computer-aided design, electronics packaging, knowledge-based systems, electromechanical systems, and distance education. Dr. Fidan holds more than a dozen university, state and national awards. He constantly publishes and reviews in many technical journals and conferences. He also actively participates in NSF panels and ABET accreditation services. In the last 10 years, he was able to receive over $1M external R&D grants.

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Mikhail Chester

Assistant Professor
Arizona State University

Mikhail Chester is an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Sustainability Engineering department at Arizona State University. His area of expertise is the energy and environmental assessment of infrastructure systems. His research has focused on transportation systems and cities, evaluating life-cycle and supply chain effects and their associated human and environmental impacts. Dr. Chester’s research expands the assessment boundaries of complex systems to understand comprehensive effects of policies and decisions, including infrastructure interdependencies. Ultimately, he is interested in determining the eternal control and damage costs of these impacts and advancing ...

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Prof. Christopher John Bettinger

Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon

Dr Christopher Bettinger is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Departments of Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering. He directs the laboratory for Biomaterials-based Microsystems and Electronics, which is broadly interested in the design of novel materials and interfaces that promote the integration of medical devices with the human body. Dr Bettinger has received many honors including the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research and the MIT Tech Review TR35 Top Young Innovator. Dr Bettinger received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from MIT as a Draper Fellow.

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Dr. Pramod Abichandani View Bio
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Participant (2013)
Nehal Ibrahim Abu-Lail View Bio
Washington State University

Participant (2011)
Robin Adams View Bio
Purdue University

Participant (2010)
Amir AghaKouchak View Bio
Assistant Professor

University of California, Irvine

Participant (2012)
Dr. Alice M. Agogino View Bio
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Speaker (2012)
Dr. Benjamin Ahn View Bio
Assistant Professor

Iowa State University

Participant (2016)
Associate Professor Alexander Alexeev View Bio
Associate Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

Participant (2014)
Theodore Allen View Bio
Ohio State University

Participant (2010)
Susan Ambrose View Bio
Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning

Northeastern University

Speaker (2012)
Adjo Amekudzi View Bio
Georgia Institute of Technology

Participant (2012)
Brian Anderson View Bio
West Virginia University

Participant (2010)
Petru Andrei View Bio
Florida State University

Participant (2012)
Lawrence Angrave View Bio
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Participant (2012)
Bruce Ankenman View Bio
co-Director and Associate Professor

Northwestern University

Participant (2012)
Dr. Casey Ankeny View Bio
Lecturer

Arizona State University

Participant (2016)
Diran Apelian View Bio
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Committee Member (2010)
Dr. LAUREN MARIE AQUINO AQUINO SHLUZAS View Bio
Exec. Director, Healthcare Design Research

Stanford University

Participant (2014)
Prof. Andrea Armani View Bio
Assoc Professor

University of Southern California

Participant (2014)
Prof. Craig B. Arnold View Bio
Professor

Princeton University

Participant (2013)
William Arnold View Bio
University of Minnesota

Participant (2011)