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The ASEE Career and Graduate Fair continues at the 2024 Annual Conference. This event will bring universities, companies, and organizations to recruit students, faculty, and others and allow them opportunities to enhance their careers or further their education. The fair will offer three different options for participants: 1) Education opportunities at academic institutions for students from high school to postdocs 2) Job opportunities at academic institutions for professors, lecturers, etc. and 3) Private sectors jobs for students and graduates.

The fair will take place at the Portland Convention Center outside of the Ballroom. It will be a two-hour event where connections can be made, and futures can be sculpted.

Prospective employees are encouraged to bring several copies of their resume/CV to distribute at the Job Fair.

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Join your friends and colleagues at our member engagement event - the Division Mixer

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Join your friends and colleagues as we kick of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference with our traditional Monday Morning Plenary.

Speaker

1. Dr. Jayathi Y Murthy P.E.

   

   Jayathi Y. Murthy, a national leader in higher education engineering teaching, research and service, began her service as Oregon State University’s 16th president on Sept. 9, 2022.

   As OSU’s president, Murthy is committed to improving access to college for all learners; advancing student success, undergraduate graduation rates and inclusive excellence throughout the university; expanding OSU’s strong research portfolio by investing in research infrastructure; and supporting faculty excellence in teaching, scholarship, research, and Extension and engagement programs.

   Prior to joining Oregon State, Murthy served as the first woman dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science since January 2016. Murthy also served as chair of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin from 2012-2015; worked as a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University from 2001-2011; and served as a professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from 1998 to 2001. Murthy began her academic career at Arizona State University in 1984. From 1988 to 1998, Murthy worked at New Hampshire-based Fluent, Inc., a developer and vendor of the world’s most widely used computational fluid dynamics software.

   Murthy received a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Washington State University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2012.

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Each student team will design and build an autonomous “Beaver Bot” robot to knock down 12 (popsicle sticks) trees and transport these sticks to either the river or pond areas of the 4’ by 8’ plywood play field.

A circuitous black line path (electrical tape) is provided on the play field to assist the Beaver Bot in finding the 12 trees, the river, and the pond. Each tree is held nearly upright by 3D printed tree bases (or stumps). The robot must adhere to the rules of the model design competition which includes an exhibition session.

The objective of this competition is for students to experientially appreciate the challenges in every step of the engineering design process from start to finish. Designing and building something from an idea is probably why they chose engineering in the first place. Use this design competition as a platform to reinforce valuable classroom principles and have some engineering fun along the way!

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ASEE General Body Meeting and Finances Town Hall

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Join VP of Member Affairs Christi Patton Luks in this informative session about ASEE.

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Interdivisional Town Hall Meeting

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Free ticketed event
Annual campus representatives' reception and awards ceremony

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Featuring:

2023 Best Overall PIC Paper:

PIC II
Title: Nuestro Impacto: An Insider Look into the Connections between Our Past
Experiences and Current Teaching and Mentoring Practices

Authors:
Dr. Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, University of Florida, Dr. Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida, Dr. John Alexander Mendoza, University of Florida, John Mendoza Garcia, University of Florida, Dr. Edward Latorre-Navarro, University of Florida, Dr. Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

2023 Best Overall Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Paper:

Title: Designing and Implementing a Workshop on the Intersection between Social Justice and Engineering

Authors:
Kavitha Chintam, Dr. Alexis Prybutok, Willa Brenneis, Jonathon M. Chan, Joie Green, Ruihan Li, Meagan Olsen, Sapna L. Ramesh, Carolyn E. Ramirez, Dhanvi Ram Vemulapalli, and Dr. Jennifer Cole

2024 Best Overall Zone Paper:

Title:
Authors:

2024 Most Outstanding Teaching Award Winner:

Moderated by

1. Dr. B "Grant" Grant Crawford P.E.

Speakers

1. Sri Yash Tadimalla

   

   Sri Yash Tadimalla is a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte, where he is pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in Computer Science and Sociology. Serving as the Technology Focal Point for the United Nations MGCY Science Policy Interface and the incumbent General Secretary of the World Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED), he advocates for the equitable advancement of STEM education on a global scale, actively fostering youth participation in STEM initiatives through engagements with the United Nations Major Group and stakeholder mechanisms. As an immigrant delving into technology access research, Yash offers nuanced insights into the intricate links between educational and technological accessibility and global food and health insecurities, all profoundly shaped by his research, personal journey and professional experiences. At UNC Charlotte he is assisting various NSF research projects under the Center for Humane AI, the Center for Education Innovation (CEIR) Lab, and the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Lab. He is the President of the Charlotte Human-centered Research Group and the Graduate and Professional Student Government at UNCC, serving on various Boards and Committees at Charlotte. His research agenda explores how an individual's identity influences their interaction with and learning of technology, particularly in the domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Science (CS) education. He has showcased his research at distinguished international conferences across diverse global locations including North America, South Africa, Western Europe, Australia, and South Asia.

2. Jim Hanna

   Microsoft Corporation

   

   Director, Datacenter Engineering
   Procurement and Construction

   In his 30 years in sustainability, Jim Hanna has become a passionate industry expert in driving companies to link their investments in sustainability directly to business outcomes. As one of the pioneers advancing the “business case for sustainability” he’s spent his career working to help companies move beyond anecdotal, qualitative and non-business metrics to justify and compete internally with other business priorities for their sustainability and community investments. In the last several years, he’s also applied that expertise and business-linkage lens to the area of corporate community investments, a field that is still essentially a philanthropic endeavor at most companies. He’s built a groundbreaking methodology to quantify community thriving, link investments to substantive community impacts, and monetize the ROI of corporate community investments
   Work Experience:
   Jim joined Microsoft in 2006 as the company’s first director of datacenter sustainability, providing strategic environmental direction in the fields of land-use, green building, energy, and water to the company’s growing cloud computing platform. He then transitioned to lead the company’s focus on urban planning and community prosperity in its datacenter communities around the world.
   Previously, Jim served as chief sustainability officer for Starbucks, leading company’s global sustainability mission in green building, energy conservation, and circular economy, in addition to serving as Starbucks external environmental policy voice and advocate on Capitol Hill.
   Prior to Starbucks, Jim served as Director of Environmental Affairs for Xanterra Parks & Resorts at Yellowstone National Park.
   A native of Washington state, Jim earned a BS in Environmental Sciences from Washington State University and is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED-accredited professional. He serves on the advisory council of the Yellowstone Park Foundation and the Washington State University College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council.

Papers Presented

1. Nuestro Impacto: An Insider Look into the Connections Between our Past Experiences and Current Teaching and Mentoring Practices [view paper]
   Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (University of Florida)
2. Designing and Implementing a Workshop on the Intersection Between Social Justice and Engineering [view paper]
   Kavitha Chintam (Northwestern University)

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ASEE invites all 2024 Chairs and Co-Chairs to this appreciation celebration.

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Join your friends and colleagues as we say farewell to President Doug Tougaw and welcome President-Elect Grant Crawford.

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1. Dr. Doug Tougaw P.E.

   Valparaiso University

   

   2023-2024 ASEE President

2. Dr. B "Grant" Grant Crawford P.E.

   Quinnipiac University

   

   2024-2025 ASEE President-Elect