Devon, Richard, and David
Ollis. Technology Literacy for Engineering Students.
2007 ASEE Annual Conference,
Honolulu, 2007
Esparragoza, Ivan E., and Richard F. Devon.
“Engineering Design in the
Americas: Perception vs. Curriculum Commitment.” International
Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE 2006,
Puerto Rico, July 2006.
Devon, Richard F., Elizabeth Kisenwether, and Richard
Schuhmann. “Engineering Education and the Global
Economy: The Search for Policy.”
2006 ASEE Annual Conference,
Chicago, 2006
Decon,
Richard, and Joel Haight, "Katrina in the Classroom."
2006
ASEE Annual Conference,
Chicago, 2006
Richard Devon, Alan de
Pennington, and Alison McKay. "A Consortium for Global
Engineering Design." Journal of Engineering Design
and Innovation Volume 1E, 2005
Richard F. Devon, Sven G. Bilén, and Javier Sánchez Sierra,
and Peter Olfs, “Teaching global engineering design,”
15th International Conference on Engineering Design,
Melbourne, Australia,14–18 August 2005.
Sven G. Bilén and Richard F. Devon, “Innovative engineering
design education,” 15th International Conference on
Engineering Design,
Melbourne, Australia, 14–18 August 2005.
Devon, Richard, Sven Bilén, Andras
Gordon, and Hien Nguyen, “Informal graphics for
conceptual design,” 2005 ASEE Annual Conference,
Portland, Oregon, 13–15 June 2005.
Ivan Esparragoza, Richard Devon.
"Developing the Global Design Curriculum in Latin
America and the Caribbean through Multi-National
Projects." Third LACCEI International Latin American and
Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCEI
2005)
8-10 June 2005, Cartagena, Colombia.
Devon, Richard. "Towards a Social Ethics of Technology:
A Research Prospect," Tecne, 2004.
Bilén, Sven G., Richard F. Devon, Mark R. Henderson,
& Hien Nguyen. "Global Approaches to Teaching Global
Design: Stakeholders, Programmes, and Assessments."
World Transactions on Engineering and Technology
Education, 2004
Devon, R., S. G. Bilén, A. de Pennington, A. McKay,
P.Serrafero, and J. Sanchez Sierra, "Integrated
design: What knowledge is of most worth in
engineering design education?" International
Journal of Engineering Education, 20, 3, 2004.
Devon, R., and I. Van de Poel. "Design Ethics: The
Social Ethics Paradigm." International Journal
of Engineering Education, 20, 3, 2004.
Virginia Recta, Karen Wynn, Richard Devon, and
Janice Derr, “Retaining first-year women in science
and engineering through research internships,
World Transactions in Engineering Education,
Vol. 3, 2003
Bilén, Sven G., Richard Devon, and Gül Okudan –
Kremer, “Cumulative Knowledge and the Teaching of
Engineering Design Processes, ASEE Annual
Conference and Exposition, Montréal, Québec,
Canada, 16 – 19 June 2002. Refereed by abstract.
Bilén, Sven. G., Devon, Richard, and Okudan, Gül E.,
“Core Curriculum and Methods in Teaching Global
Product Development, ICEE 2002, Manchester,
England, 18 –22 August, 2002. Refereed by abstract.
Devon, Richard, and Julia Liu, Global Change & the
Management of Engineering Education,” World
Transactions in Engineering Education, Spring
2002.
Pollard, Jane, D., Richard Devon, Alison McKay, and
Sven Bilén, “Teaching Design Through International
Collaboration, ICEE 2002 Proceedings,
Manchester, England, 18 –22 August, 2002. Refereed
by abstract
Devon, Richard, Andy Lau, Philip McReynolds, and
Andras Gordon, “Transformations: Ethics and the
Design of Technology, Proceedings of the
American Society for Engineering Education,
2001. Refereed by abstract
Devon, R. Towards a Social Ethics of Engineering:
The Norms of Engagement. Journal of Engineering
Education, January 1999: 87-92.
Devon, Richard F., Renata Engel, & Geoffrey Turner,
“The Effects of Spatial Visualization Skill Training
on Gender and Retention in Engineering, Journal
of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering,
Summer, 1998.
Devon, Richard, Wayne Hager, Jean-Francois Pauwels,
Jacques Lesenne, "Building an International
Collaboration in Engineering and Technology
Education," ICEE-97: Proceedings of the
International Conference on International
Engineering Education, Chicago, 1997.
Devon, Richard, and Lance Bush, “Teaching Technology
Decision-Making for Product Design and Development:
A University Course on Technology Assessment and
Technology Transfer,” Journal of Technology
Transfer, September, 1996.
Devon, Richard F., Renata S. Engel, Robert J.
Foster, Dhushy Sathianathan, and Geoffrey Turner,
"The Effect of Solid Modelling Software on 3-D
Visualization Skills." The Engineering Design
Graphics Journal, Spring, 1994.
Devon, Richard F., “Sustainable Technology and the
Social System,"IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1994. Pp 14-19.
Earlier publications include two tutorial books,
three chapters in books, five refereed publications,
and a dozen or so non refereed or refereed by
abstract publications in conference proceedings
AWARDS Back to Top
2003 ACE/AT&T Award Technology as a Tool
for Internationalization. 5 given nationally [$7.5K]
1999 GE Award for Excellence in Teaching,
College of Engineering [$10K]
1999 Honorable mention for Most Innovative
Teacher Award, Penn State University
1998 Collaborative and Curricular
Innovations Special Recognition Award Program. The
Pennsylvania State University: For creating a new
permanent course. STS/Phil 233: Ethics and the
Design of Technology.
1998 Member of an 8-person team winning the
national Boeing Engineering Educator's Award for
Industry Driven Design [$50K]
1999 Finalist for the LaMarr
Kopp International Achievement Faculty Award, Penn
State University
1996 Collaborative and Curricular
Innovations Special Recognition Award Program. The
Pennsylvania State University: Introductory Design
Course
1994 Member of a 5-person team top 10
recognition for the Boeing Engineering Educator's
Award
1992 Group Achievement Award, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washinton, DC
FUNDING Back to Top
Selected Grants & Impacts (total ~ $6million, 94% as
PI)
Year |
Amount |
Funded Grants & Selected impacts |
| 2006 |
~$70,000 |
Hewlett Packard "Tablet PCs
by Design." To study digital ink in
conceptual design communications. Initially the
PI, later the co-PI. |
2002–05 |
$206,000 |
FIPSE, United States Department of Education. To
establish a 7 university consortium of US and EC
universities committed to improving global
design education.
PRESTIGE: Preparing Students to Work in the
Global Economy .
|
1998–2004 |
$132,500 |
ALCOA.
Alliance By Design. To support international
design teams and international coops. PI.
Competitive each year. This funding led to the
establishment of the Global Internship and
Cooperative Education Program (GICEP)
in the College of Engineering, as well as
Prestige (above) and a national award (ACE/AT&T)
|
1999– |
$600,000 |
NASA Learning Technology program. LUAU II. Total
for 3 years. PI Web-based middle school
initiative on (NASA) mission based education.
Passed to the College of Education and Professor
Barbara Grabowski.
Link
|
1999– |
$2,400,000+ |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, total
awarded for 5 years. PI. Ranked 10/50 programs
nationally after first five years.
|
1999 |
$234,000 |
NASA Dryden LUAU: Learning Using ERAST Aircraft
for Understanding Remote Sensing. Total awarded
for 2 years. PI |
1997 |
$234,000 |
National Science Foundation. “Computer Repair
Training program.”co-PI. Judi Wakhungu, PI.
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
Institute. Based on pilot program by Devon to
build self confidence in women by teaching open
box repair and diagnostic skills to women
students and school teachers.
|
1997 |
$5,000 |
College of Engineering , “Alliance by Design”an
international collaboration in design team
competition. PI. See the consequent Alcoa
funding above.
|
1997 |
$35,000 |
NASA Wallops Island , “SPIRIT: A Student Rocket
Launch Initiative.” co-PI. John D. Mitchell, PI.
|
1996 |
$19,500 |
National Science Foundation, “Women in Science
and Engineering (WISER).”Undergraduate Research
for Women. co-PI. Created by Karen Wynn Asst.
Dir. of PASGC, it is still running in 2004, and
it led to a refereed publication.
|
1996 |
$12,000 |
College of Engineering , Course Development
Funds for a new course in engineering ethics.
PI. Became
STS/Phil 233: Ethics and the Design of
Technology
|
1995 |
$4,000 |
Equal Opportunity Planning Commission (Penn
State), Conflict Resolution Training Course. PI
Became
STS 297B: Conflict Resolution still
being taught in 2004. |
1994 |
$1,900,000+ |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, 5-year
grant. Augmented by $95,000 per annum beginning
February, 1998. Also raising $20,000+ per annum
from Lockheed Martin. PI. Grant obtained
originally by Dr. Sylvia Stein. |
1994–1996 |
$6,000 |
Leonhard Center . Penn State Green
Design Conference. co-PI . This
conference was still running in 2004 |
1990–1999 |
$25,000 pa |
NASA funds (funds solicited for Penn State by
others), created a research based space academy
for high school students. PI with Jack Mitchell.
(EE). Ran for 10 years |
1990–1991 |
$65,000 |
National Science Foundation Young Scholars
Program. PI |
1989 |
$20,000 |
College of Engineering , Instructional Equipment
Upgrade, PI. This established the precedent of
using tuition surcharge funds in the first year
engineering course. Subsequently ~$1 million was
acquired this way through 2004 ending in the
establishment of
CEDE |
1988–1989 |
$60,000 |
National Science Foundation Young Scholars
Program. PI. Summer engineering program for high
school students
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