Dr Jack R. Lohmann, Ph.D., P.E, Vice Provost and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
The title of Dr Lohmann's keynote was "Engineering Education Innovation: Advancing the Global Capacity for Engineering Education R&D". Dr Lohmann is vice provost for Faculty and Academic Development and professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His principal responsibilities include faculty development and promotion, the initiation, development, and accreditation of Georgia Tech’s academic programs, and serving as the president’s liaison to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (COC/SACS) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Colleges/SACS. Dr. Lohmann has held appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California, l’École Centrale Paris, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dr. Lohmann earned his B.S.M.E. from Oklahoma State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University. Among the external sponsors of his research work are AT&T, Continental AG, Dessault Systemes, ExxonMobil, GM, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft Research, Motorola, National Science Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Sloan Foundation, and the United Engineering Foundation. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Director’s Award for Excellence (National Science Foundation), the A.M. Wellington Award (Institute of Industrial Engineers), and the Global Engineering and Engineering Technology Educator Award and the John L. Imhoff Global Excellence Award (American Society for Engineering Education). Dr. Lohmann is editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, and a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the European Society for Engineering Education.
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Dr Euan Lindsay, Program Leader - Mechatronic Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Dr Euan Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronic Engineering at Curtin University, in Perth, Western Australia. His research interests include engineering education, telecontrol (particularly internet-based telecontrol), artificial neural networks, and rehabilitative technologies for people with sensing impairments. Dr Lindsay is a Mechatronic engineer, a discipline that integrates computers, electronics and physical hardware. Dr Lindsay's PhD investigated whether remote and simulated access alternatives to the traditional in-person laboratory experience could provide the same learning outcomes for students.
Dr Lindsay's work in Remote and Virtual laboratory classes has shown that there are significant differences not only in students' learning outcomes but also in their perceptions of these outcomes, when they are exposed to the different access modes. These differences have powerful implications for the design of remote and virtual laboratory classes in the future, and also provide an opportunity to match alternative access modes to the intended learning outcomes that they enhance.
Dr Lindsay is the President of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, and co-edits the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. Dr Lindsay was the recipient of a 2007 Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching. In 2005 he was named as one of the 30 Most Inspirational Young Engineers in Australia. Dr Lindsay has recently been made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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Richard Earp, Education and Skills Manager, National Grid
Richard Earp is Education and Skills Manager at National Grid. National Grid owns and operates the main gas and electricity transmission systems that form the backbone of the UK’s energy infrastructure.
Richard is a chartered engineer with 23 years experience in the electricity industry, including control centre operations, emergency planning, managing maintenance teams, maintenance planning and, most recently, business and workforce planning. He has led major changes in the company’s new-entrant training programmes including setting up new schemes at Foundation Degree level. He is now responsible for all of National Grid’s schools engagement programmes, including establishing new work experience offerings, supporting the Engineering Diploma, developing a site visit programme for schools and STEM ambassador support.
