Our interactive session focuses on individual/collective envisioning for hopeful and joyful queer engineering futures. We know queerness and transness is joy, where queer and trans people have always existed in society and history. However, within engineering and STEM innovation, LGBTQ+ history, contributions, and identities are often erased. Queer and trans people, particularly BIPOC individuals, have been reshaping and redefining a variety of other fields and higher education for decades from their experiences and navigation of their own gender and sexual identities. We hope our session will be ... (continued)
For those interested in: Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology and New Members
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Elizabethtown College
After a period of review, public comment, and feedback, the ASEE Board approved the updated Code of Ethics and codes of conduct. Come learn about the changes and discuss ways you can use the Code of Ethics as an educator, researcher, or industry partner. Updates to the codes of conduct for attendees and volunteers will also be presented. Along with Q&A about the codes and processes for addressing issues of ethics and member conduct, small group discussion will be the focus of the session. The presenters of this session are all members or past members of the ASEE Committee on Ethics & Memb ... (continued)
Come see some of our Corporate Members highlight the work they are doing to support engineering education in these longer-form talks.
Speakers:
Jeff Alderson, Education Product Manager, Mathworks
Jeff Alderson has spent his entire career working on technology that empowers students, families, and educators to further their education and career, including those with special needs. Jeff's current vocation is Education Product Manager at MathWorks in Natick, MA, where he leads the company’s marketing efforts in teaching and learning, including the products MATLAB Grader and MATLAB Course Design ... (continued)
Showcases purpose-built AI tutoring and teaching assistant platforms deployed in real engineering courses, highlighting systems that ground responses in instructor-curated materials, provide scaffolded problem-solving support rather than direct answers, and address the needs of students at undergraduate institutions, particularly the ones serving under-represented student groups.
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College
More often than not, engineering education researchers think within the boundaries of what is mutually understood as important to United States scholars. For example, many scholars study historically and currently relevant categorizations of people that could be related to receiving an engineering education in the United States such as race, ethnicity, gender, international status, etc. Although these categorizations are important to investigate, we must recognize that there are many missed opportunities to further our understanding of other phenomena that could affect engineering education and p ... (continued)
For those interested in: Advocacy and Policy and Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology
The NSF and Merit Strategy invite YOUR input on a national effort to reshape public perceptions of engineering. This work includes a coordinated media campaign to enhance the visibility of engineering, promoting connections to research-backed engineering opportunities in and out of school, and clear guidance to illuminate paths into engineering and engineering technologies.
This proposal is based on the research ASEE members have conducted over the last three decades—including the Engineering Mindset Report (https://mindset.asee.org/) and countless papers—which highlight the necessity of address ... (continued)
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Advocacy and Policy, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College
Modern software engineers are expected to optimize applications for increasingly complex hardware platforms — yet performance engineering is often viewed as difficult or overly theoretical. This interactive 1.5-hour workshop introduces a new task-based approach for teaching software optimization and performance engineering on Arm platforms using Performix.
Participants will explore how hands-on optimization challenges and interactive tooling can make performance engineering more engaging, practical, and accessible. The workshop will highlight the course structure and pedagogy, including progress ... (continued)
ASEE HQ Financial Presentation by VP of Finance
This award is presented to a distinguished engineering educator to recognize and to encourage outstanding achievement. This award is given for lifetime achievement, recognizing a sustained career of contributions to pedagogical practice, scholarship, and mentoring that not only caused innovative and substantial changes, but also inspired other educators to new behaviors that benefit students in Chemical Engineering.
Dr. Michael Prince has been designated as the recipient of the 2026 Donald R. Woods Lectureship Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogy for his demonstrated excellence in mentoring, scholarship and pedagogical practice.
Mentoring, graduate school, AI, pedagogy.
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections
AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Conversational Tools
Spatial Skills, Embodied Cognition, and Multimodal Sensing
Frameworks, Acceptance, and Scoping Reviews in Computing Education
The rate at which industry is evolving continues to accelerate, leading to an increased need for integrating professional-grade tools into undergraduate curriculum. This panel session will explore practical strategies for embedding industry-standard software across engineering programs to reinforce fundamental engineering concepts while preparing students for the workforce. Panelists, drawing from real-world university teaching experience across multiple engineering disciplines, will share lessons learned, common challenges, and effective approaches to onboarding students with these often-complex ... (continued)
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections
Russell Mailen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas (2007), a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University (2012), a Master of Material Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University (2016), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University (2017). He worked as a liaison engineer at Hawker Beechcraft (2007 – 2009) and as a structural analyst at L-3 (2009 – 2011). At Auburn, he teaches a required seni ... (continued)
Rajesh Bhaskaran is Swanson Teaching Professor of Engineering Simulation in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. His work seeks to promote the democratization of simulation through the effective integration of industry-standard simulation software into engineering education. He has helped introduce Ansys-based simulations into 17 Cornell engineering courses. Over 327,000 people from 173 countries have enrolled in his massive open online course on simulations at edx.org; this course was a finalist for the edX prize. He has developed two online Cornell ce ... (continued)
Dr. Ayse Tekes is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kennesaw State University and the Interim Director of the MOVE Center, an interdisciplinary research hub focused on mobility, digital health, and wearable technologies. Her research centers on compliant mechanisms and soft robotic systems, particularly the design of bioinspired, reconfigurable compliant joints for assistive devices such as exoskeletons, prostheses, and orthoses.
Her work bridges fundamental engineering design with translational applications, aiming to improve mobility outcomes through innovative, low-cost, a ... (continued)
Free ticketed event
This is the Design in Engineering Educations Division (DEED) annual business meeting. At this meeting we will discuss issues and initiatives pertinent to division membership, review the state of the division, hear from our PIC chair, and conduct annual DEED board elections. We are a fun bunch! Come join us.
For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Advocacy and Policy, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College
In this panel, five corresponding authors will present their work from JEE Articles published in 2025 and curated by the Editorial Board. This session gives conference attendees the opportunity to engage in selected articles from the Journal of Engineering Education and deepen their own knowledge of recent leading-edge knowledge in the field of engineering education research. The presentations are:
Diane Schallert
Building bridges to engineering interest: Connections between student perceptions of instructor actions and interest in engineering classes. DOI: 10.1002/jee.20621
Yume Menghe Xu
Maki ... (continued)
Making facilitates an engineering student's identity work in becoming an engineer. DOI: 10.1002/jee.70027
Exploring engagement narratives among self-identified Hispanic women's experiences in engineering counterspaces. DOI: 10.1002/jee.20630
Engineering students' sustainability learning: Examining opportunities to learn about sustainability and their role in student outcomes. DOI: 10.1002/jee.70010
Collaboration rules: A narrative comparison of engineering students and practicing engineers' collaboration experiences and beliefs using structuration theory. DOI: 10.1002/jee.70002