Integrating Human-Centered Approaches into Engineering Classrooms

Publications 

Golecki, H., Chang, W., Johnson, B., Shehab, S., King, C., Cinnamon, L., & Ilozuluike, Y. (2026). Using Podcasts to Motivate Bioengineering Capstone Students Toward Learning and Career Exploration. Biomedical Engineering Education, 6(1), 171-181.

Parks, T., Shehab, S. & Mercier, E. (2026). Investigating students’ collaborative problem-solving interactions during scaffolded and non-scaffolded ill-structured tasks. Instructional Science 54, 63. 

Conference Presentations 

Parks, T., Shehab, S., & Goodman, M. (2026, June 21–24). Investigating and coding design signatures using longitudinal report data in a capstone engineering course. [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Goodman, M., Shehab, S., Parks, T., & Johnson, B.(2026, June 21–24). Students’ self-efficacy of human-centered design and engineering student entrepreneurial mindset in a two-semester materials science and engineering capstone course. [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Wroblewski, E., Parks, T., & Bretl, T. (2026, June 21–24). Human-centered pilot stakeholder design project development for second-year aerospace students. [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ali, H., Craft, B., Pagano, A., Parks, T., Vargas Ordonez, C., Lande, M., Shehab, S., Hargrove-Leak, S., & Korsunskiy, E. (2026, June 21–24). Positioning human-centered engineering within engineering education: Presenting a picture of an emerging discipline. [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Johnson, B., Chen, Y., Katz, J., Pool, M., Hebert, L., Gretner, Y., & Shehab, S. (2026, June 21–24). Engagement in practice: Partnering with honors students to build a sustainable service-learning ecosystem. [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Golecki, H., Taylor, N., Arias, E., King, C., Shehab, S., Chang, W., Johnson, B., Wright, A., & Amos, J. A. (2026, June 21–24). Podcasting toolkit for engineering educators. [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Pagano, A. (2026, June 21–24). Case study introducing the knowledge, capabilities, mindsets (KCM) framework. [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Goodman, M., Shehab, S., Li, H., & Parks, T. (2026, June 1–3). Capturing design progress in an engineering capstone course: Development of an LLM tool. Capstone Design Conference, College Station, Texas.

Gayen, S., Wrobewlski, E., Pagano, A., & Parks, T. (2026, June 21–24). Mapping macroethical access from cross-disciplinary data analysis at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Craft, B., Pagano, A., Shehab, S., Vargas-Ordonez, C.E., Ali, H., Lande, M., Ayoub, G., Dziallas, S., & Parks, T. (2025, June 22–25). Advancing human-centered engineering (HCE): A framework for defining and building the emerging discipline [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Goodman, M., Shehab, S., Parks, T., & Johnson, B. (2025, June 22–25). Human-centered design framework and engineering student entrepreneurial mindset in a restructured materials science and engineering capstone course [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Parks, T., Bretl, T., & Shehab, S. (2025, June 22–25). WIP: Assessing aerospace students’ human-centered engineering design competency across multiple required courses [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Parks, T., Craft, B., Pagano, A., & Shehab, S. (2025, June 22–25). WIP: Using a human-centered engineering design mapping tool to inform ABET accreditation for an existing engineering design program [Technical session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Goodman, M.D., Shehab, S., Pozza, N.R., & Johnson, B.E. (2024, June 23–26). Incorporating human-centered design to restructure a materials science and engineering capstone course [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Pagano, A., Parks, T., & Shehab, S. (2024, June 23–26). Developing a human-centered engineering design self-assessment survey [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Parks, T., Bretl, T., & Pagano, A. (2024, June 23–26). WIP: Exploring the impact of partner assignment on students’ decision-making in collaborative design projects [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Parks, T., Shehab, S., Bretl, T., Wroblewski, E., & Lembeck, M. (2024, June 23–26). WIP: Using a human-centered engineering design framework to develop learning progressions in an aerospace engineering program [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Rajarathinam, R.J., Katz, J.E., Shehab, S., Johnson, B.E., Chen, Y.W., Pool, M., & Chochola, K.M. (2024, June 23–26). The impact of a graduate teaching and leadership course on engineering graduate teaching assistants’ learning of pedagogy [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Shell, J.K., Tapiawala, V., Parks, T., & Shehab., S. (2024, June 23–26). Ongoing evaluation of pre-college students’ learning outcomes during a human-centered engineering design summer camp [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.

Tucker, T., Pagano, A., & Shehab, S. (2023, June 25-28). Merging Human-Centered Design with engineering design: Synthesizing a Human-Centered Engineering Design framework [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, United States. 

Chen, Y., Johnson, B., Shehab, S., & Pool, M. (2023, June 25-28). Engagement in practice: Maximizing the impact of service-learning activities through collaboration with K–12 educators [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, United States.  

Shehab, S., Katz, J. E., Kirby, E., Pool, M., Chen, Y. W., & Johnson, B. E. (2023, June 25-28). The impact of a 16-week preparation course on the technological pedagogical content knowledge of graduate teaching assistants in engineering [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, United States. 

Shehab, S., Tucker, T., Pagano, A., & Amos, J. (2023, April 20-21). Supporting course design with a Human-Centered Engineering Design framework [Conference session]. The 2023 ABET Symposium, Nashville, TN, United States. 

Shehab, S., Subramanian, S., Fava, J., & Schmitz, C.D. (2022, June 26-29). WIP: The impact of human-centered design modules on students’ learning in an introduction to electronics course [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Chen, Y., Johnson, B., Johnson, B., Pool, M., & Shehab, S. (2022, June 26-29). Engagement in practice: Maximizing the impact of service-learning activities through collaboration with K–12 educators [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Pagano, A., & Shehab, S. (2021, April 16-17). Framing design projects in engineering: Constructing an effective problem statement [Conference session]. Illinois-Indiana American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Regional Conference, Virtual.

Pagano, A., Shehab, S., & Liebenberg, L. (2020, June 22-26). WIP: Introducing students to Human-Centered Design in a design for manufacturability course [Paper session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual.