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Steffen Peuker
Steffen Peuker

Dr. Steffen Peuker

Assistant Professor
California Polytechnic State University

Dr. Steffen Peuker holds the James L. Bartlett, Jr. Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the California State University in San Luis Obispo. His research in engineering education focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering through implementation of a student success focused approach in introduction to engineering courses/seminars. In addition, his work in engineering education innovations focuses on Team-Based Learning (TBL), student-industry cooperation, and developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and engineering in practice and research. He is teaching courses, including laboratories, in the HVAC&R ...

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Micah Lande
Micah Lande

Dr. Micah Lande


South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering programs at the Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation project courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply a design process to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford ...

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Keith Holland
Keith Holland

Dr. Keith Holland

Associate Professor
James Madison University

Keith Holland is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Academic Unit Head for the Department of Engineering at James Madison University (JMU). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and subsequently served as the Vice President for Research and Development at Avir Sensors, a start-up sensing and security technology company. As a faculty member at JMU, he contributed to the development of the mechanics, electronics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer courses as well as two engineering field-study abroad programs in Malta and Kenya.

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Konrad Rykaczewski
Konrad Rykaczewski

Prof. Konrad Rykaczewski

Assistant Professor
Arizona State University

Konrad Rykaczewski is an assistant professor at School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at ASU. He received his BS (2005), MS (2007) and PhD (2009) in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he was a research scientist at MIT and NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST. His current research interests include fundamental studies of nano/microscale thermofluidic and interfacial phenomena, novel in situ and cryogenic electron and ion beam microscopy methods, and nanoengineering of functional surfaces with special wettability for a variety of applications.

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Tamara Kinzer-Ursem
Tamara Kinzer-Ursem

Professor Tamara Kinzer-Ursem

Assistant Professor
Purdue University

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem is an Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Her research is highly interdisciplinary; combining protein engineering and chemical biology approaches with computational biology to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of protein signaling networks that drive cellular behavior. Her research group is developing selective protein tagging and protein-surface conjugation methods that are coupled with nanotechnologies and other emergent techniques to rapidly characterize protein function. Computational work includes the development of deterministic and stochastic simulations of protein signaling in small cellular compartments. These techniques are ...

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Eduardo Silva
Eduardo Silva

Dr. Eduardo A. Silva

Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis

Dr. Silva is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). He received his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering from University of Porto, Portugal, 2001. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences: Bioengineering in 2008 (University of Porto & Harvard University). After the completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Silva was awarded a Wyss Technology Development fellowship (Harvard University). He was also a lecturer and Instructor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2009-2011). At the UC Davis, Dr. Silva teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Bryan Boudouris
Bryan Boudouris

Professor Bryan W Boudouris

United States

Assistant Professor
Purdue University

Bryan W. Boudouris is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Furthermore, he is a co-founder and scientific advisor of the water purification start-up company Anfiro, Inc. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research from 2009 to 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley. His group’s current research interests include the design, characterization, and implementation of homopolymers and block polymers for advanced water, energy, and security applications.

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Douglas Holmes
Douglas Holmes

Professor Douglas P. Holmes

Assistant Professor
Boston University

Douglas Holmes is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. He received degrees in Chemistry from the University of New Hampshire (B.S. 2004), Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (M.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2009), and was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. Prior to joining Boston University, he was an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on understanding how objects change shape. He recently received the NSF CAREER Award and the ASEE Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator award.

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Margaret Slattery
Margaret Slattery

Dr. Margaret Slattery

Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Slattery’s work focuses on the undergraduate biomedical engineering student and their academic experience. She works in a range of roles: teaching core curriculum - from first year seminars through senior capstone design courses, and guiding students as an academic adviser. She serves as the departmental program administrator and is engaged at the college level in student recruitment and student services. At the university level she leads curricular affairs, and general education reform. She is continually looking to use her experience and passion for engineering education to enhance student learning and help engage students in meaningful educational experiences.

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Bryan Webler
Bryan Webler

Prof. Bryan Webler

Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Webler received a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 and an MS (2007) and PhD (2008) in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. From 2008 to 2013, he was a Senior Engineer in the Materials Technology at the Bettis Laboratory, studying corrosion resistance and mechanical behavior of metals. Dr. Webler joined CMU as an assistant professor in 2013 and is a faculty member in CISR. Dr. Webler's research interests deal with the reactions between metals and their environment, specifically: (1) Steelmaking, (2) High temperature oxidation, (2) Corrosion, (3) Fundamental thermodynamics and transport phenomena.

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Branko Glisic
Branko Glisic

Prof. Branko Glisic

United States

Associate Professor
Princeton University

Branko Glišić received his degrees in Civil Engineering and Theoretical Mathematics at University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Ph.D. at the EPFL, Switzerland. After eight-year long experience at SMARTEC SA, Switzerland, he moved to Princeton University, where he holds position of Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His main areas of interest are Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), advanced sensors based on fiber-optics, large-area electronics and conductive polymers, SHM data management and analysis, smart structures, and heritage structures. He is author and co-author of numerous papers, short courses, and the book “Fibre Optic Methods for Structural ...

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Nina Robson
Nina Robson

Dr. Nina Robson

Assistant Professor
California State University, Fullerton

Nina Robson completed her MS degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and her PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Nina Robson has worked extensively in the areas of Robotics, Geometric Design of Mechanisms and Biomechanics. At California State University, Fullerton she is teaching the one year long Senior Design Project class, as well as other classes in the areas of Kinematics of Mechanisms, Mechanical Design and Robotics.

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