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SUSANNAH HOWE, PH.D.

Design Clinic Director and Senior Lecturer

Area of Expertise

Structural engineering and materials
   

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2000
   

Professional Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Professional Development Associate, College of Engineering, Cornell University
Laboratory Co-Instructor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
   

Selected Recent Publications

Howe, S. "Where Are We Now? Statistics on Capstone Courses Nationwide," Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2010.

Riley, D., Howe, S., Reinhardt, N., Lane, P., and Farris, J. "Design for Economic Empowerment: Student Engagement and Learning across Cultures and Disciplines," Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 2009, pp. 147-172.

Davis, D., Trevisan, M., Davis, H., Gerlick, R., McCormack, J., Beyerlein, S., Thompson, P., Howe, S., Leiffer, P., and Brackin, P. "Assessing Team Member Citizenship in Capstone Engineering Design Courses," accepted (August 2009) for publication in the International Journal of Engineering Education.

   

Selected Honors and Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, George Winter Graduate Fellowship for structural engineering, Cornell University
W. Mack Angus Prize for highest-ranked civil engineering student, Princeton University

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