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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN EDUCATION (DEC)

On behalf of the Design Education Committee we welcome you to the 14th annual International Conference on Design Education. The focus of
this conference is on design education among educators, practitioners and researchers.

We have three special events this year. Our first keynote presentation is by Dr. Sunand Bhattacharya from Autodesk, Inc. He will present “Radical
Collaboration by Design in Engineering Education.” He is planning to discuss the future of making and learning things which exists at the nexus of
(1) design, make, use; (2) infinite computing, digital manufacturing, and internet of things; and (3) creating places, things, and media convergences.
He will talk about the importance of successful integration of this curricular effort into disciplines of engineering and design for bridging the gap
between education and industry expectations. This presentation is scheduled for Monday morning at 11:00am; please check the Technical
Program for the location.

Our second keynote presentation is by Dr. Karen E. Crosby an NSF/DUE Program Director. She will speak on “Overview of Undergraduate STEM
Education Research and Related NSF Funding Opportunities.” She will present various funding opportunities to support STEM education projects
offered through the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will also culminate with helpful
hints and fatal flaws to consider when developing proposals. The keynote will be Tuesday morning at 9:10am; please check the Technical
Program for the location.

Our third special event is a panel session organized by Dr. Daniela Faas on “To Be a Makerspace or Not to be: Panel on Maker Space and
Machine Shop Synergies.” This panel will examine maker spaces as a learning environment and how they are integrated across the fabrication
continuum at universities. The panel will address questions such as “Can traditional shops and maker spaces mutually co-exist?” and “What is the
maker space beyond making?” The panel session will be Monday at 4:00pm; please check the Technical Program for the location.

The emphasis of DEC’s technical sessions is on “Design Education in the Undergraduate Curriculum,” “Research Methods in Design Education,”
“Evaluations and Assessment in Design Education,” and “Fabrication and Making Things in Design Education.” This year’s DEC Program consists
of four technical sessions. This year we received 23 submissions. The acceptance rate is about 85%. Refer to the conference Technical Program
for the times and locations for the sessions.

A Best Paper has been selected for the 2017 DEC Conference: it is DETC2017- 67339 “Quantifying the Mismatch Between Course Content and
Students’ Dialogue in Online Learning Environments” by Sunghoon Lim, Conrad S. Tucker, Kathryn Jablokow and Bart Pursel. It is scheduled at
2:00pm on Tuesday, August 8.

We extend special appreciation to our technical session Review Coordinators: Janet Allen, Zhenghui Sha, Beshoy Morkos, Zahed Siddique, Anne
Lucietto, Daniela Fass and Zahra Shahbazi. We also give our sincerest thanks to all the reviewers of technical papers; they have insured the
quality of this year’s conference.

The DEC technical committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 8, at 4:00pm, where we present many of the DEC Awards and plan for
next year’s conference. Everyone is welcome to attend. Our meeting is streamlined to respect members’ participation on other committees.

We welcome you to ASME’s 14th International Conference on Design Education, which has been designed for you to have a successful and
useful conference in Cleveland.

Chair Program Chair
Zahra Shahbazi Daniela Faas
Manhattan College Olin College of Engineering

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