Current Research Collaborations

Engineering for US All (e4usa) is a first-of-its-kind, national initiative designed to introduce engineering design principles to a new generation of students.

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Medha Dalal, Rachel Figard, Assad Iqbal, and Fagner Franca

Current External Collaborators: Darryll Pines (University of Maryland), Stacy Klein-Gadner (Vanderbilt University), Kenneth Reid (University of Indianapolis), Craig Scott (Morgan State University), Jennifer Kouo (Towson University / Johns Hopkins University), and Bruk Berhane (Florida International University)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

The e4usa+FIRST Project is an unprecedented effort that establishes a partnership between two existing programs – Engineering for US All (e4usa) and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) – in an effort to leverage collective strengths toward furthering the democratization of engineering education.

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Medha Dalal, Rachel Figard, and Assad Iqbal

Current External Collaborators: Steve Efe (Morgan State University), Petronella James (Morgan State University), and David Rogers (DEKA)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Mentorship 360 (M360) is a project focused on facilitating faculty success through effective faculty mentorship. The larger project supports multiple efforts around the U.S. The specific effort undertaken by STEER researchers is to understand effective mentorship from the perspective of mentees and mentors using a critical incidences approach.

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Hadley Perkins, and Samantha Brunhaver

Additional External Collaborators: Ann McKenna (ASU), Jennifer Bekki (ASU), and Julianne Holloway (ASU)

Funding Agency: Kern Family Foundation

The NSF Engineering Research Centers Unite Project aims to develop and test a comprehensive set of instruments designed to enhance the evaluation of education and diversity programs offered by NSF-funded Engineering Research Centers (ERC). The project brings together representatives from multiple ERCs to form The ERC Education/Evaluation Consortium (TEEC) to create the Multi-ERC Instrument Inventory (MERCII).

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Zhen Zhao and Marcus Melo de Lyra

Current External Collaborators: Jean Larson (ASU), Michelle Jordan (ASU), Wilhelmina Savenye (ASU), Wendy Barnard (ASU), Megan O’Donnell (ASU), Courtney Argenti (ASU), Allison Godwin (Purdue University), Gillian Roehrig (University of Minnesota) and Chris Barr (Rice University)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) is an interdisciplinary, multi-institution nanosystems-engineering research center (headquartered at Rice University) whose goal is to facilitate access to clean water almost anywhere in the world by developing efficient modular water treatment systems that are easy to deploy, and that can tap unconventional sources to provide humanitarian water or emergency response.

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Zhen Zhao and Marcus Melo de Lyra

Associated Institutions: Rice University (Lead), ASU, University of Texas at El Paso, and Yale University

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

The Engineering Intuition Project is a research initiation project that explores practicing engineers’ and engineering student perceptions of discipline-specific intuition and how it manifests in expert engineering decision-making and problem solving processes.

Team Members: Adam Carberry and Sanjeev Kavale

Current External Collaborators: Elif Miskioğlu (Bucknell University) and Kaela Martin (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Engineering for One Planet (EOP) is a global initiative working to equip all future engineers across all disciplines with the fundamental skills and principles of environmental sustainability.

Team Members: Adam Carberry

Current External Collaborators: Molly Cashion (ASU) and Darshan Karwat (ASU)

Funding Agency: The Lemelson Foundation

Understanding engineering career fairs as informal professionalization learning spaces is a research initiation project designed to establish a baseline understanding of the what is learned by those who engage in such events – students, employers, and career fair staff.

Team Members: Adam Carberry

Current External Collaborators: Darshan Karwat (ASU) and Jameson Wetmore (ASU)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) 3C’s Framework – curiosity, creating value, and making connections – characterizes attributes associated with having an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). This project aims to establish a theoretical foundation for this conceptual framework.

Team Members: Adam Carberry, Sanjeev Kavale, and Samantha Brunhaver

Current External Collaborators: Cheryl Bodnar (Rowan University) and Prateek Shekhar (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Funding Agency: Kern Family Foundation

Diminishing Digital Divide explores how universal design principles can be harnessed to improve engineering learning-based technologies for students with disabilities. This project aims to investigate students with disabilities’ interactional experiences with technology.

Team Members: Rachel Figard

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation