2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Katrina Jolene Donovan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0410-7847 South Dakota Mines [biography]

   Dr. Katrina Donovan received her B.S. degree from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2010. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Oregon State University in 2019, studying microfluidic investigations of capillary flow and surface phenomena in porous polymeric media for 3D printing. She worked for multiple years at HP, Inc. in the 3D Printing Department. She is currently a Lecturer at South Dakota Mines and Research Scientist at Dragon Materials, LLC, an engineering consulting firm. Her research involves experimental design and technique development for soft materials, complex fluids, and surface phenomena. She a wide range of experience in rheological, thermal, structural, and molecular characterization that she leverage fundamentally for academic purposes as well as industrially for applications. As her three patents can show, designing experiments and creating novel techniques to answer fundamental questions that drive applications and technology forward captivates her interest. She has volunteered countless hours to the community, led multiple STEM Education grants that engage the local K-12 schools of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and submitted proposals that engage even more tribal communities.

2. Dr. Jon J Kellar South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [biography]

   Kellar is the Douglas Fuerstenau Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the SD School of Mines and Technology. He has been on the faculty since 1990, and in 1994 was selected as an National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow a

3. Dr. Stuart D. Kellogg P.E. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [biography]

   Stuart Kellogg is Professor and Head of Industrial Engineering at SDSMT. His discipline research areas of interest include applied probability and stochastic models but his passion over the last two decades rests with STEM Education and STEM Education re

4. Dr. Cassandra M Birrenkott http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6137-0820 South Dakota Mines [biography]

   Dr. Cassandra (Degen) Birrenkott received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying mechanochemical reactions of a spiropyran mechanophore in polymeric materials under shear loading. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where her research interests include novel manufacturing and characterization techniques of polymer and composite structures and the incorporation of multifunctionality by inducing desired responses to mechanical loading.

5. Dr. Michael West South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [biography]

   Dr. Michael West is an associate professor and head of the department of materials and metallurgical engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines). Between 2008-2013, he served as site director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Fri

6. Matthew Whitehead South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
7. Deborah Jean Mitchell South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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