Staff and Partner Publications

Immersive Experience on Students' Understanding
Antonette T. Cummings PE, Carla Zoltowski, Ming-Chien Hsu, Monica E. Cardella and William C. Oakes. Appeared at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference.
Immersive Community Engagement Experience
Carla B. Zoltowski, Antonette T. Cummings, PE and William C. Oakes
Raising Students' Cultural Awareness through Design Scenarios
Andrea Mazzurco, James L. Huff, Brent K. Jesiek. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.
An Assessment Approach to Project-Based Service Learning
Antonette T. Cummings, James Huff, William C. Oakes and Carla B. Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.
Making Sense of Design: A Thematic Analysis of Alumni Perspectives
James Huff, Carla B. Zoltowski, William C. Oakes and Robin Adams. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.
Utilizing an Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument in the Curriculum
Carla B. Zoltowski, Patrice M. Buzzanell and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2013.
Why Women Choose Service-Learning: Seeking and Finding Engineering-Related Experiences
Holly M. Matusovich, William Oakes and Carla B. Zoltowski. Appeared in the International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2013, pp. 388-402.
Work in Progress: Understanding Professional Competency Formation in a Service-Learning Context from an Alumni Perspective
James L. Huff, William C. Oakes and Carla B. Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 1351-1353.
Team Learning: Developing interdisciplinary project teams
Scott P. Schaffer, Xiaojun Chen, Xiumei Zhu and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 1185-1187.
Collaborating Interaction Design into Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
Cheryl Zhenyu Qian, Carla Zoltowski and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 1141-1146.
Development of a Design Task to Assess Students' Understanding of Human-Centered Design
Roy B. Melton, Monica E. Cardella, William C. Oakes and Carla B. Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 935-940.
Panel: Engineering and Development: Facilitating Successful Project Work in Diverse Global Contexts
Brent Jesiek, Julia Thompson, Anne Dare, James L. Huff, William C. Oakes, Juan Lucena, Kurt Paterson and Richard F. Vaz. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 512-513.
Adapting Curricular Models for Local Service-learning to International Communities
James L. Huff, Dulcy M. Abraham, Carla B. Zoltowski and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2012.
Early Engineering through Service-Learning: Adapting a University Model to High School
William C. Oakes, Pamela Dexter, Jane Hunter, James C. Baygents and Michael Gerard Thompson. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2012.
Exploration of New Frontiers for Educating Engineers through Local and Global Service-Learning Projects
James L. Huff, Ali Mostafavi, Dulcy M. Abraham and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the ASCE Construction Research Congress 2012, 2081-2090, West Lafayette, IN, May 2012.
Students' Ways of Experiencing Human-Centered Design
Carla B. Zoltowski, William C. Oakes and Monica E. Cardella. Appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 101, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 28-59
Self-Efficacy for Cross-Disciplinary Learning in Project-Based Teams
Scott P. Schaffer, Xiaojun Chen, Xiumei Zhu and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 101, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 82-94.
Work in Progress - Project-Based Service Learning in Engineering: Investigating Partner Relationships
Julia D. Thompson and Brent K. Jesiek. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD, October 2011.
Special Session - Assessing Student Learning of Engineering Design
Monica E. Cardella, William C. Oakes, Carla B. Zoltowski, Robin Adams, Senay Purzer, Jim Borgford-Parnell, Reid Bailey and Denny Davis. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD, October 2011.
Special Session - Engineering Ethics: Toward a Definition
Craig P. Titus, Carla B. Zoltowski and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD, October 2011.
Phenomenography as a Tool for Investigating Understanding of Computing Concepts
Gregory Bucks and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.
Designing in a Social Context: Situating Design in a Human-Centered, Social World
Craig Titus, Carla B. Zoltowski and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.
Service-Learning Partnerships: Improving Education and Addressing Community Needs
William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.
The Creation of Tools for Assessing Ethical Awareness in Diverse Multi-Disciplinary Programs
Craig Titus, Carla B. Zoltowski, Margaret Huyck, and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.
Phenomenographic Study of Human-Centered Design: Educational Implications
Carla B. Zoltowski, William C. Oakes, and Monica E. Cardella. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.
Assessing Teamwork and Best Educational Practices in Diverse Multidisciplinary Programs
Scott P. Schaffer, Margaret Huyck, William C. Oakes, and Daniel Gandara. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011,
Work In Progress - Assessing Moral Decision-Making Skills in the Engineers of 2020
Craig P Titus, Carla B. Zoltowski and William C Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010.
Work In Progress - Development of a Design Task to Assess Students' Understanding of Human-Centered Design
Roy B. Melton, Carla B. Zoltowski, Monica E. Cardella and William C Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010.
Work in Progress - Phenomenographic Approach to Understanding Students' Ways of Experiencing Human-Centered Design
Carla B. Zoltowski, William C Oakes and Monica E. Cardella. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010.
Integrating Ethics Curriculum Within A Service-Learning Design Context
Craig Titus, Carla Zoltowski and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2010.
Integration Of Graphical Programming Into A First-Year Engineering Course
Gregory Bucks and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2010.
Teaching Human-Centered Design With Service-Learning
Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes and Steve Chenowith. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2010.
Facilitating Vertically Integrated Design Teams
Gregory Bucks, William Oakes and Jeffrey Richardson. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 2009.
Creating Effective And Efficient Learning Experiences While Addressing The Needs Of The Poor: An Overview Of Service-Learning In Engineering Education
William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 2009.
Work In Progress - Impact of Research Technologies on Service Learning
Saurabh Bagchi, Carla B. Zoltowski and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2008.
Teaching Engineering In High School Using Service-Learning: The Epics Model
Michael Thompson, Pamela Turner and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008.
Work in Progress - EPICS High School Initiative
William C. Oakes and Pamela Turner. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2007.
Assessing Activity Systems of Design Teams in a Collaborative Service Learning Environment
Scott Schaffer, Kimfong Lei, Lisette Reyes, William Oakes and Carla Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
Normative Typologies of EPICS Students on ABET EC Criterion 3: A Multistage Cluster Analysis
Susan Maller, Tao Hong, William Oakes, Carla Zoltowski and Paul McDermott. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
Construct Validity of the EPICS Scales Across Groups: A MIMIC Modeling Investigation
Tao Hong, Susan Maller, William Oakes and Carla Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
Facilitating Multidisciplinary Teams in a Service-learning Environment
Gregory Bucks, William Oakes, Caral Zoltowski, Frank DeRego and Silvia Mah. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
Developing an Understanding of Instructors' Design Learning Philosophies in a Service-learning Context
Carla Zoltowski and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.
Work in Progress: A Student Perspective - Why Women Choose Service-Learning
Holly Matusovich, Deborah Follman and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2006.
Analyzing Cross-disciplinary Design Teams
Scott P. Schaffer, Kimfong Lei, Lisette Reyes, William Oakes and Carla Zoltowski. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2006.
Multi-campus Collaborations Among Undergraduate Design Teams: Opportunities and Challenges
Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes and Barrett Myers. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 2006.
Integrating Engineering Education and Community Service: Themes for the Future of Engineering Education
Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson and William C. Oakes. Appeared in Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 95, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 7-11.
Conversion of Collegiate EPICS to a K-12 Program
Sarah Nation, William Oakes, Lowell Bailey and Jill Heinzen. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2005.
Teaching Ethics and the Social Impact of Engineering within a Capstone Course
Frank R. De Rego, Jr., Carla Zoltowski, Leah H. Jamieson and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2005.
EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service
Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson and William C. Oakes. Published in the International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 21, No. 1, Feb. 2005, pp. 139-150.
Equipping Multi-disciplinary Student Teams to Manage Multi-Semester Design Projects
Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes and Leah Jamieson. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, June 2005.
University and Community Partnerships for Reaching Pre-College Students: The EPICS Model
Joy Garton Krueger, William C. Oakes, Leah Jamieson, Carla Zoltowski, Sarah Nation and Jill Heinzen. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, June 2005.
Evaluating the Outcomes of a Service-Learning Based Course in an Engineering Education Program: Preliminary Results of the Assessment of the Engineering Projects in Community Service - EPICS
Jason C. Immekus, Susan J. Maller, Sara Tracy and William C. Oakes. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, June 2005.
EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service
William Oakes and John Spencer. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2004.
Panel - HP-Funded Engineering Retention Initiative: Methodologies and Findings of Four Diverse Universities/Colleges
Sandy Brooks, Susan W. Brown, Pamela Mack, John Moya and William Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2004.
An Analysis of the Reflection Component in the EPICS Model of Service Learning
Lynne A. Slivosky, Frank R. DeRego, Jr., Carla B. Zoltowski, Leah H. Jamieson and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004.
Developing Self-Report Instruments to Measure ABET EC 2000 Criterion 3 Professional Outcomes
Jason C. Immekus, Sara Tracy, Jin Eun Yoo, Susan J. Maller, Brian F. French and William C. Oakes. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004.
The Epics Entrepreneurship Initiative: Combining Engineering And Management To Improve Entrepreneurship Education And Practice
Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson, William C. Oakes, Stephen Martin, Ronald J. Steuterman, Shailendra R. Mehta, Donald A. Blewett and Marie C. Thursby. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.
Evaluating Multidisciplinary Design Teams
Lynne Slivovsky, William Oakes and Leah Jamieson. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.
Creation and Evaluation of the National Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program
Edward Coyle, Leah Jamieson and William Oakes. Presented at the 6th WFEO World Congress on Engineering Education and 2nd ASEE International Colloquium on Engineering Education, Nashville, TN, June 2003.
A Model for Integrating Professional Writing Students into a Technical Design Team
Lynne A. Slivovsky and Julie M. Staggers. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.
A Service-Learning Program For Computer Science And Software Engineering
Panagiotis K. Linos, Stephanie Herman and Julie Lally. Appeared in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2003.
Developing the Reflection Component in the EPICS Model of Engineering Service Learning
Lynne A. Slivovsky, Frank R. DeRego Jr., Leah H. Jamieson and William C. Oakes. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2003 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO, November 2003.
Service Learning in Computer Science and Engineering
Leah H. Jamieson (Moderator). Participants: Edward J. Coyle, Greg Madey, Panagiotis K. Linos, Jon Reid, Kipp A. Scott, Stephanie Herman and Kelly Schneider. Appeared in Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Technical Symposium of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Cincinnati, OH, February 2002.
Service-Learning in Engineering
William Oakes, John Duffy, Thomas Jacobius, Panos Linos, Susan Lord, William W. Shultz and Amy Smith. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002.
EPICS: Meeting EC 2000 Through Service-Learning
William C. Oakes, Leah H. Jamieson and Edward J. Coyle. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.
EPICS: Documenting Service-Learning to Meet EC 2000
Leah H. Jamieson, William C. Oakes, and Edward J. Coyle. Appeared in the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers In Education Conference, Reno, NV, October 2001.
EPICS: Serving the Community Through Engineering Design Projects
Leah H. Jamieson, William C. Oakes and Edward J. Coyle. Appeared in Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service Learning. L. A. K. Simon, M. Kenny, K. Brabeck, and R. M. Lerner, Editors. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 277-295.
EPICS: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects
William C. Oakes, Edward J. Coyle, Richard Fortek, Jeffery Gray, Leah H. Jamieson, Jennifer Watia, and Ronald Wukasch. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.
EPICS: A Model of Service-Learning in an Engineering Curriculum
William C. Oakes, Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.
EPICS: Interdisciplinary Service Learning Using Engineering Design Projects
William C. Oakes, Amy Krull, Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson and Melinda Kong. Appeared in Proceedings of the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 2000.
EPICS: Service Learning by Design
Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson. Appeared in Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering, E. Tsang, Editor, American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), 2000, pp. 59-74.
Integrating Engineering Design, Signal Processing, and Community Service in the EPICS Program
Leah H. Jamieson, Edward J. Coyle, Mary P. Harper, Edward J. Delp and Patricia N. Davies. Appeared in Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1998, Seattle, WA, pp. 1897-1900.
EPICS: A Model for Integrating Service-Learning into the Engineering Curriculum
Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson and Larry S. Sommers. Appeared in Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 4, Fall 1997, pp. 81-89.
Long-Term Community Service Projects in the Purdue Engineering Curriculum
Edward J. Coyle, Henry G. Dietz and Leah H. Jamieson. Appeared in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 1996.