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Livesay among Young Engineering Educators Selected to Share Innovations at Frontiers in Education Symposium
November 11, 2011
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Applied Biology and
Biomedical Engineering Professor Glen Livesay is among 65 of the
nation's most innovative, young engineering educators selected to
participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of
Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium on November 13-16 in Irvine,
Calif. He was nominated by fellow engineers or deans and
chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants.
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Glen Livesay
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Livesay is among early-career faculty members who are developing
and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of
engineering disciplines. His innovation involves embedding
questions into .pdf version of current abstracts and papers that
students can "uncover" as they read on their own. The idea is
to provide some "guided" reflection as students learn to work with
the primary literature.
At FOEE, Livesay will share ideas with colleagues, learn from
research and best practice in education, and leave with a charter
to bring about improvement at Rose-Hulman.
"The Frontiers of Engineering Education program creates a unique
venue for engineering faculty members to share and explore
interesting and effective innovations in teaching and learning,"
said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "We want FOEE to become a
major force in identifying, recognizing, and promulgating advances
and innovations in order to build a strong intellectual
infrastructure and commitment to 21st-century engineering
education."
This year's program will focus on teaching leading-edge
engineering knowledge, project-based learning, active and
self-directed learning, and assessment of student learning and
education innovation.
"In our increasingly global and competitive world, the United
States needs to marshal its resources to address the strategic
shortfall of engineering leaders in the next decades," said Edward
F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the chair of the FOEE planning
committee. "By holding this event, we have recognized some of
the finest young engineering educators in the nation, and will
better equip them to transform the educational process at their
universities."
Livesay is the first Samuel F. Hulbert Faculty Chair in
Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman, and a member of the faculty
since 2004. He specializes in orthopaedic biomechanics,
continuum mechanics and engineering education. He served as a
Fellow for the National Effective Teaching Institute of the
American Society of Engineering Education's (ASEE) Educational and
Research Methods Division and is presently a member of the Board of
Directors of the ASEE's Design in Engineering Education
Division. He has advised eight students on year-long research
thesis projects, and authored or co-authored 48 peer-reviewed
publications, 10 book chapters and 110 abstracts and
presentations.