Opened Practices Users Named: Williams

612 McBryde Hall
Department of Engineering Education
Virginia Tech

Christopher B. Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he directs the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments reflects his diverse research interests which include layered manufacturing, design methodology, and design education. As a member of an instructional team that orchestrated a service-learning design project for the first-year engineering program, Professor Williams has been recently awarded the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Outreach Excellence Award. Dr. Williams is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

Julia M. Williams is the Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, and ABET have appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, and the International Journal of Engineering Education. She is also the recipient of a Tablet PC Technology, Curriculum, and Higher Education 2005 award from Microsoft Research to assess the impact of tablet PCs and collaboration-facilitating software on student learning.