ASEE fellows and Dissertations Focused on Engineering Education Research

Our college has three American Society for Engineering Education fellows and numerous doctoral disserations.

  • ASEE Fellows: Jacquelyn Sullivan (2011), Angela Bielefeldt (2019), John Falconer [Link: https://www.asee.org/member-resources/groups/academy-of-fellows/list-of-fellows]
  • Komarek, Rebecca.  2020.  Leadership Behavioral Complexity Among Engineering Capstone Design Students. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Polmear, Madeline. 2019. Examining Faculty Perspectives and Practices Related to Engineering Ethics and Societal Impacts Education Through an Input-Environment-Output Lens. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Lauff, Carlye. 2018. Prototyping in the wild: The role of prototypes in companies. Mechanical Engineering. Advisor: Kotys-Schwartz.
  • Myers, Beth. 2016.  Access Pathways Into and Through Engineering Education for Underrepresented Populations. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Goodman, Katherine. 2015. The Transformative Experience in Engineering Education. ATLAS. Advisor: Hertzberg.
  • Rulifson, Greg, P.E. 2015. Evolving Social Responsibility Understandings, Motivations, and Career Goals of Undergraduate Students Initially Pursing Engineering Degrees. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Forbes, Marissa. 2015. Course Choice Opportunity and Technical – Non-Technical Balance in Undergraduate Engineering Education. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Tsai, Janet. 2015. Actor-networks of sophomore engineering: Durability and change in required mathematics courses. Mechanical Engineering. Advisor: Kotys-Schwartz. 
  • France, Todd. 2015. Project-based learning in a high school engineering program: A case study. Architectural Engineering. Advisor: Mike Brandemuehl.
  • Cooper, Lauren. 2014. Designing the design experience: Identifying factors of student motivation in project-based learning and project-based service-learning. Mechanical Engineering. Advisor: Kotys-Schwartz.
  • Litchfield, Kaitlin. 2014. Characterizing and understanding the growing population of socially engaged engineers through Engineers Without Borders – USA. Civil Engineering. Advisor: Javernick-Will.
  • Canney, Nathan, P.E. 2013. Assessing Engineering Students’ Understanding of Social Responsibility from Undergraduate and Graduate Education into Professional Life. Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Zarske, Malinda Schaefer.  2012.  Impacts of service-learning projects on high school and first year engineering students’ attitudes, efficacy, and persistence.  Advisor: Bielefeldt.
  • Kotys-Schwartz, Daria. 2007. Evaluation of the impact of interactivity on student performance and attitudes in engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Advisor: Lawrence E. Carlson.