2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Ms. Tess Bisbee Meier http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8223-6521 Worcester Polytechnic Institute [biography]

   Tess Meier is a PhD Candidate in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Her research there focuses on wearable assistive and rehabilitation robotics but has a newfound interest in teaching & scholarship, and education research. As a Future of Robots in the Workplace – Research and Development NRT Fellow, Tess is being trained in designing, advising, and executing convergence research projects. She is interested in educating the next generation of engineers to be ethical, human-centric, collaborative, communicative, and transdisciplinary. As a graduate student she has advised international interactive qualifying projects (IQP) and a senior capstone design project (MQP). As she pursues a career in academia, Tess strives to combine her interests in medical robotics and engineering education.

2. Dr. Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3349-7984 Worcester Polytechnic Institute [biography]

   Dr. Yilmaz Akkaya is a postdoctoral researcher in Nanoenergy Group under the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She holds BS degrees in Chemistry and Molecular Biology and Genetics from Bogazici University. She completed her Master’s and PhD Degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Koc University. Her research focuses on improving people’s lives by providing solutions to environmental and medical problems, and promoting diversity and equity in higher education.

3. Yunus Doğan Telliel Worcester Polytechnic Institute [biography]

   I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I am in the Humanities and Arts Department and affiliated with the Interactive Media and Game Development Program and the Robotics Engineering Department. Before arriving at WPI, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and I received my PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York. My current research project is an ethnographic study of the interplay between ethics and imagination in engineering research. As an extension of this work, I am closely collaborating with engineers and other technologists on issues related to the future of work and technology. In addition, I am a co-PI on an NSF-funded graduate research training program on robots in the future workplace, and a co-PI on an NSF-funded research project on platform design for nonprofits.

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