Official ETD Ballot

If you are now a member of the Engineering Technology Division (ETD) of ASEE, the polls are now open until May 15, 2015. You can vote using this e-mail ballot or you can mail/fax a copy of this ballot to:

Ron will verify ETD membership and tabulate the votes. The only information that will be passed on will be the aggregate number of votes. Remember, you must be a member of the Engineering Technology Division to vote

Select one candidate from each of the five positions, type in your email address (the address you use to log into the ASEE website to change your profile or upload pictures), and then press the Submit button, which is just before the background of the candidates. To view information for each candidate, click on the title of each position. Once you reviewed the information, click on the Vote for link, located at the end of each section, to vote for that position.

Chair, Engineering Technology Division

Responsible for the functioning of ETD Division and approves all expenditures of division funds. The chair organizes and establishes strategic long rang planning for the division and organizes and presides at all division executive and business meetings. The chair is responsible for keeping the membership chair of ASEE informed of all division activities and ensuring that all division officers fulfill their specific duties. The ETD chair is also a member of the conference committee for the ASEE Conference on Industry and Education Collaboration and will be the secretary of this committee in their first term of office and the chair of this committee during the last year of the term of office. The ETD chair becomes the past ETD chair after their term as chair ends and continues as a member of the executive committee so this person needs to commit to attend ETD executive and business meetings twice a year for four years

Responsible for assembling session moderators, co-moderators, and reviewers for ETD sessions and for managing the peer review process of papers submitted for the ETD program of the ASEE Annual Conference. Encourage moderators and speakers to submit their papers for review and publication in the Conference Proceedings and maintains and updates list of session moderators, co-moderators, and paper reviewers. Also assists the Vice-Chair for Programs as assigned. The Assistant Vice-Chair for Programs serves for one year and becomes the Vice-Chair for Programs in the second year of the term.

The following position description is provided for information only.

The Vice-Chair for Programs is responsible for planning and carrying out the ETD program at the ASEE Annual Conference. Serves as coordinator for the Conference program planning session; identifies session topics; assists moderators in planning sessions as needed; compiles information supplied by moderators and sends it to the appropriate ASEE staff member; assists with planning meal and entertainment functions; and publicizes the ASEE Annual Conference through the ETD Newsletter, ETD listserv, and special flyers distributed at other ASEE-sponsored conferences.

Controls, collects, and tracks the funds of the Division and is responsible for requesting reimbursement for expenditures. Responsible for submitting a financial report at the two business meetings of the division held each year and maintains auditable financial records for the division of outstanding receivables and payables.

Participates on the Executive Committee with other officers of the Division in planning and conducting ETD affairs. Assignments for the Member-at-Large are made by the Division Chair.

Elected by the division membership, the assistant CIEC ETD program chair is responsible for assisting the CIEC ETD program chair in the conduct of the ETD program at the Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration. During the conference, the assistant program chair handles the session and speaker evaluations, and, using this data, the award winners are selected. The term is one year as the assistant CIEC program chair and one year as the CIEC ETD program chair.

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Scott Danielson

Dr. Scott Danielson is currently an Associate Dean within the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). Previously, he had been the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Technology and Innovation at ASU’s Polytechnic campus. Before assuming the Associate Dean’s role, he had been a department chair for engineering technology programs for over 13 years. He has been active in the Engineering Technology Division (ETD) for the last 16 years, currently a member at large on the Engineering Technology Division Executive Committee. Before that role, he served the ETD in leadership roles as executive board member of the Engineering Technology Council (2009 – 2011) and board member of the Engineering Technology Leadership Institute (2003 – 2006). He has also published a number of papers within the Division at ASEE annual conferences and served as a paper reviewer.

Additional roles within the ASEE include serving in the Mechanics Division’s executive committee, including terms as both program and division chair. He has also been a member of the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award Committee and currently serves on the Frederick J. Berger Award Committee.

Within ABET, he has been an ABET engineering technology program evaluator for both the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and ASME, served on the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET for five years, and currently is on the ETAC Executive Committee.

He is active in the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME); serving as a member of the Vision 2030 Task Force, the Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation in a variety of roles, and as a member of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department Head Committee. He was awarded the ASME Ben C. Sparks Medal in 2009 and 2013 (a team award) for excellence in mechanical engineering education.
He is currently the project director for an USAID-funded Vietnamese educational capacity development and academic leadership development program.

Dr. Ahmed ElSawy joined Tennessee Technological University (TTU) as a Professor and Chairperson, Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Technology in July 1999. Prior joining TTU, he was a professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA, Professor and founder of Manufacturing Engineering Program at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud MN, and Project Manager in the Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Dr. ElSawy was also, a Visiting Researcher, Fügetechnick/Schweißtechnik im Institut für Maschinen Konstruktion, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Before that Dr. ElSawy was a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cairo University, Egypt.

As a young Engineering, he started his engineering career in the Iron & Steel Institute in Egypt. When I moved to the United States I had the opportunity to work with GE in Schenectady, NY and FMC–Ordnance Division in San Jose, CA. Moreover, over my academic career I developed exchange programs with three international academic institutions: Rzeszow University of Technology (Politechnika Rzeszowska), Poland, and Technical University of Dresden, Germany as well as the Arab Academy of Science Technology and Maritime, Egypt.

I advised several undergraduate and graduate students on the Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral degree levels. Proudly, my former students are holding academic and industrial positions in the US, Germany and Taiwan. I have numerous publications in national and international conferences and refereed journals. Although all my degrees are in Mechanical Engineering, my exposure to industrial experience, life and different cultures influenced my opinion in Engineering and Technology education in the US. In particular the German school of engineering which combining best practice of the two worlds: theory and hands-on-experience.

Dr. Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Michigan Technological University. She holds three degrees in Electrical Engineering: a B.Sc. from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, a M.Sc. from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

From 2007-2012, Dr. Oliveira served as the Michigan Tech project director for the U.S.-Brazil Engineering Education Consortium on Renewable Energy funded by the U.S. Department of Education with the goals of fostering research partnerships, curriculum development, and faculty and students exchanges. Dr. Oliveira has also been involved with STEM K-12 outreach, internationalization of engineering education, and the NSF-ADVANCE initiative at Michigan Tech.

Dr. Oliveira’s areas of interests are communication, optical fiber communication systems, signal processing, and engineering education. She has worked with colleagues from several institutions in Brazil and in the United States to address problems in communications and signal processing. Dr. Oliveira has also been investigating and applying new teaching approaches to effectively teach electrical engineering technology content to both majors and non-majors students, and have investigated ways to implement STEM content in the K-12 curriculum. The results of these investigations are published in two book chapters, eighteen refereed journals and forty-three refereed conference publications. Dr. Oliveira has been serving as reviewer, session chair, and moderator in ASEE conferences since 2007.

Dr. Oliveira is member of the ASEE Engineering Technology Division, the IEEE Photonics Society, the IEEE Women in Engineering Society, and the Association of International Educators. She is advisor for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and co-trustee for Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society at Michigan Tech.

Dr. Robert Weissbach has spent the past 17 years at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) department. From 1999-2007 he chaired the ECET department. In addition, he has chaired both the College’s Faculty Council and Promotion and Tenure committee. Prior to pursing his doctoral studies, he spent six years at General Dynamics Electric Boat Division working on the design and construction of submarine turbine generator sets. He has published over 40 journal and conference papers, including more than a dozen in ASEE venues. His research interests include renewable energy and energy storage, as well as improving the technical writing of engineering students. Dr. Weissbach spent the 2007-2008 academic year on sabbatical at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he researched energy storage technologies for the Ecogrid project and also taught a course in applied digital signal processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and currently chairs its Erie Section. He is also currently the Engineering Technology Council representative for Penn State Behrend, and has previously served as its Campus Representative, where he received an award from ASEE in 2003 for recruitment efforts in the North Central Section.

Ali Eydgahi started his career in higher education as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985. Since then, he has been with the State University of New York, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Eastern Michigan University. During 2006-2010, he was Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, Founder and Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of Engineering Technology.

Dr. Eydgahi has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development. He has served ECE Division of ASEE as Secretary/Treasurer, Program Chair, Vice Chair, and Division Chair during 2010-2014 and has been Technical Activities Director of IEEE Southeast Michigan Section since 2012.

Ali has also served as a member of the Board of Directors for Tau Alpha Pi, as a member of Advisory and Editorial boards for many International Journals in Engineering and Technology, as a member of review panel for NASA and Department of Education, as a regional and chapter chairman of IEEE, SME, and ASEE, and as a session chair and as a member of scientific and international committees for many international conferences.

Dr. Goodman is an Assistant Professor and teaches courses in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology at IUPUI. His areas of expertise include electrical power systems, relay protection, energy auditing, solar thermal systems, and informal energy education. He has eight years of electrical and energy engineering experience at General Electric and Owens-Illinois. He has also worked at a number of company sites conducting energy audits and doing renewable energy feasibility studies. He is a life member of the American Solar Energy Society and an annual member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and of course American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). While with ASEE, he has served four years as peer reviewer at the Annual Conferences 2010-2013 and four years as moderator at the Annual Conferences 2011-2014. He was also elected by the Engineering Technology Division (ETD) to serve as 2015 CIEC ETD Program Vice Chair and 2016 CIEC ETD Program Chair. Dr. Goodman would like to continue to serve ETD as Treasurer and was asked to run by current Treasurer Ken Rennels.

Dr. Wei Zhan is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Systems Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Zhan earned his D.Sc. in Systems Science from Washington University in 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as a post-doctoral associate at University of California, San Diego. From 1993-1995, he worked at Wayne State University as a visiting Assistant Professor. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006, he joined Texas A&M University. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation, quality control, and optimization. He is a licensed professional engineer in Michigan. He is also an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Dr. Zhan is very active in educational research. He is currently the editor-in-chief of American Journal of Engineering Education. He is an editorial board member of several other journals. He served on many conference program committees. He has published 12 educational journal papers and 26 educational conference papers with the majority of these at ASEE Annual Conferences. He has been an active member of ASEE since 2006. He participated in Annual Conferences, reviewed abstracts and papers, and served as a moderator at ASEE conferences many times. He strongly believes that ASEE is one of the best venues for promoting engineering technology education.

Dr. Ted Evans has served as a faculty member in the University of Toledo Electrical Engineering Technology program for over 28 years. He was initially hired in 1986 and has served in numerous capacities over the last 28 years. His roles have included those as Director of the Electrical Engineering Technology undergraduate program and Director of the Practice Oriented Masters Program in the UT College of Engineering. During his UT appointment he has progressed through the ranks as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor (2007).

Among his numerous contributions, Dr. Evans developed the Programmable Logic Controller curriculum in the EET program. He has actively led this effort, collaborating with industry stakeholders and the UT College of Engineering. To support this effort he has attended (on his own and as an invited speaker) and hosted industry events specifically focusing on automation and PLCs. He has developed each of the undergraduate PLC instructional labs from both a capital equipment and teaching curriculum perspective.

Demonstrating further commitment to the University of Toledo and Engineering Technology education, Dr. Evans successfully developed and implemented a Mechanical Engineering Technology concentration option within the Electrical Engineering Technology Bachelor of Science curriculum.

Dr. Evans has presented his work regularly via the proceedings of the annual ASEE North Central Section conference (2015 presentations will mark six consecutive years). His commitment to the students, staff and faculty of the University of Toledo has been exemplary. His commitment to engineering technology education makes him an ideal representative as “Member at large” in the Engineering Technology Division of ASEE.

Carol Lamb is an Associate Professor and the Director of the School of Engineering Technology at Youngstown State University. She has been teaching in the Civil and Construction Engineering Technology program at Youngstown State for 10 years. Previous to accepting this teaching position, she worked in industry for approximately eleven years. Prior to accepting the Director's position Carol served as Coordinator for the Civil and Construction Engineering Technology (CCET) and Drafting and Design Technology programs. As the Coordinator of CCET Carol pursued and grew connections with regional businesses in the civil and construction field and diversified the Industrial Advisory Board. Developing these relationships has enhanced the CCET curriculum while promoting the CCET program and students in the industry. As the Director, Carol continues this role but on a wider spectrum to promote engineering technology as a career path for students and represent all of the programs within the Engineering Technology department. The School of Engineering Technology is comprised of five programs: Civil and Construction Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Drafting and Design Technology, and Power Plant Technology. I think that Carol would be an excellent candidate for Member-At-Large as this position would provide her with valuable experience and exposure while complementing her position as Director of the School of Engineering Technology.

Mequanint Moges earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and M.Sc. Degree in Communication Systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia. His research interests are in the areas of wireless sensor networking, load scheduling in parallel and distributed systems and grid computing. Currently, he is an Instructional Associate Professor and the Assistant Chair of Engineering Technology Department at the University of Houston. He has been teaching courses including Electrical Circuits, Telecommunications, Data Communications, Computer Networks and Advanced Wireless Networks. He is actively involved in various professional activities including as session chairman, NSF panelist, IEEE faculty advisor of student organizations and as a reviewer of journals, conference papers and book chapters. Prior to his current position, he worked in a consulting engineering firm as a designer and supervisor of several design projects of electrical systems of different nature including industrial, public as well as low voltage communication systems.

In 2008 and 2013 he received the College of Technology’s Fluor Daniel Award for teaching excellence. In 2014 he received the University of Houston’s Award for teaching excellence. He is also a recipient of Stony Brook Presidential Fellowship for the academic year 2001-02 and an AUSAID scholarship from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia for the academic year 1996-1997.

Dr. Saeed Foroudastan is the Associate Dean for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). The CBAS oversees ten departments at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Foroudastan received his B.S. in Civil Engineering, his M.S. in Civil Engineering, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and eighteen years of academic experience as a Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor.

Dr. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students. He is the initiator and program director of the nationally recognized, award-winning Master of Science in Professional Science Program (MSPS), the most successful and fastest-growing graduate program at MTSU.

In addition to Dr. Foroudastan’s teaching experience, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers, and he has also achieved U.S. and European patents. He has secured over one million dollars in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. He is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for the Experimental Vehicle Program which enters national competitions for its Solar Boat, Solar Vehicle, Moonbuggy, Formula SAE, and Baja SAE vehicles.

For his concern and dedication to students, Dr. Foroudastan received the Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Public Service Award, and Faculty Advisor of the Year Award from Middle Tennessee State University, as well as the Excellence in Engineering Education award and Faculty Advisor award from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

Scott Segalewitz, P.E. is a Professor of the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton (UD). His areas of interest include using technology to enhance the learning environment, developing global technical professionals, distance and asynchronous learning, and technical communication. He served for 2-1/2 years as Director of Industrial and Technical Relations for the University of Dayton China Institute in Suzhou, China where he established corporate partnerships and training programs for US companies in the Suzhou Industrial Park, and developed opportunities for UD students to gain international and technical experience in China. He served for twelve years as Chair of the UD Department of Engineering of Engineering Technology, where he was responsible for leadership of five baccalaureate engineering technology programs, and approximately 300 full and part-time students.

Prior to this position, he spent fourteen years as Program Chair of Biomedical Engineering Technology at Penn State University. Segalewitz earned an MS degree in Biomedical Engineering, a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He is active in professional societies including the American Society for Engineering Education, (ASEE), and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is has also served as a program evaluator for ABET since 1991, and spent four years on the TAC of ABET Commission. He is currently chair of the ETD membership committee, has served is on the ASEE Engineering Technology Council (ETC) executive board, the ASEE Engineering Technology Leadership Institute (ETLI) executive board, and is past chair of the ASEE Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).

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Assistant CIEC ETD Program Chair

Austin Asgill

Dr Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He is currently a Professor and department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Prior to joining the faculty at KSU (formerly SPSU), he was an Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering Technology at Florida A&M University (FAMU), where he served as Program Area Coordinator and Interim Division Director. With over 25 years of teaching experience in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and Engineering Technology, he currently teaches in the areas of networking, communication systems, biomedical instrumentation, digital signal processing, and analog and digital electronics. He has worked in industry in the areas of telephony, networking, switching and transmission systems, and RF and MMIC circuits and system design. Dr. Asgill has served on the board of the Tau Alpha Pi (TAP) National ET Honors Society since 2012 (Chair 2012-2014). He has served as a paper reviewer and session chair at numerous ASEE-SE and ASEE national conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the ASEE, and is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of Florida.

Jane A. LeClair

Dr. Jane A. LeClair is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the National Cybersecurity Institute (NCI) at Excelsior College in Washington, D.C., whose mission is to serve as an academic and research center dedicated to increasing the knowledge of the cyber security discipline. Dr. LeClair served as Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College in Albany, NY prior to assuming her current position.

Before joining Excelsior College, Dr. LeClair had worked in education and the commercial nuclear power industry, serving in various management positions. She taught at various universities, including Syracuse University, the State University of New York at Oswego, and Columbia College. Her work in the energy industry brought her to the attention of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with whom she continues to collaborate. Her recent chapter entitled Training in the Nuclear Industry, in Managing Nuclear Projects and Protecting Our Future: Educating a Cybersecurity Workforce were both published in December 2013. Cybersecurity in Our Digital Lives, also part of the Protecting Our Future series, was published in 2015, and Volume II of Protecting Our Future: Educating a Cybersecurity Workforce, will be published in late Spring 2015.

Dr. LeClair has also been actively involved in a variety of professional organizations and is an advocate for attracting and retaining more women in nuclear, cyber security and other technology fields and welcomes contributions to the LeClair Scholarship for Women in Technology.

Michael Strange

Michael Strange is an associate professor of Engineering Technology at California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, California – a campus of the California State University. Professor Strange teaches courses in the Marine Engineering Technology, Facilities Engineering Technology, and Mechanical Engineering programs. He is incoming Engineering Technology department chair as well as the ME capstone design sequence coordinator. Professor Strange led the MET and FET programs through successful accreditation in 2013 and assisted the ME program in its successful 2013 accreditation. He is advisor to the ASME student chapter, the AFE student chapter and the Tau Alpha Pi engineering honor society. Prior to joining Cal Maritime, Professor Strange was an adjunct faculty member and facilities manager for San Francisco State University’s School of Engineering.

Professor Strange received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from San Diego State University, his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He partially completed a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Professor Strange has experience organizing and managing engineering events with large numbers of attendees, including ASME student design competitions and international robotic combat events. He resided internationally for several years and was a featured lecturer in Japan. He is an engineering consultant to the Pediatric Device Consortium based at the University of California, San Francisco, and is part of the engineering services team for the show MythBusters on the Discovery Channel.

An ASEE member since 2009, Professor Strange has attended several ASEE conference events and is a member of ETD and DEED.

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