JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Sanders, E., Goldstein, M., & Hess, J. L. (under review). Instructional characteristics that promote and inhibit more comprehensive ways of experiencing human-centered design. International Journal of Technology and Design Education.
Hess, J. L., Fila, N. D., Kim, E., & Purzer, Ş. (2021). Measuring empathy for users in engineering design. International Journal of Engineering Education, 37(3), 733-743.
Fila, N. D., Hess, J. L., & Purzer, Ş. (2020). Instilling new ways of understanding the innovation process: Evidence-based heuristics from student innovation experiences. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(2), 633-649.
Fore, G. & Hess, J. L. (2020). Operationalizing ethical becoming as a theoretical framework for teaching engineering design ethics. Science & Engineering Ethics, 26: 1353-1375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00160-w
Hess, J. L. & Fila, N. D. (equal authorship, 2016). The manifestation of empathy within design: Findings from a service-learning course. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 12(1-2), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2015.1135243
Fila, N. D., Hess, J. L., Purzer, Ş., & Dringenberg, E. (2016). Engineering students' utilization of empathy during a non-immersive conceptual design task. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3B), 1336-1348.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Hess, J. L. & Fila, N. D. (2017). Empathy in design: A discourse analysis of industrial co-creation practices. In Analysing Design Thinking: Studies of Cross-Cultural Co-Creation, edited by Bo T. Christensen, Linden J. Ball, and Kim Halskov, 483-498. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Fila, N. D. & Hess, J. L. (equal authorship, 2015). Exploring the role of empathy in a service-learning design project. In Analyzing Design Review Conversations, edited by Robin S. Adams and Junaid Siddiqui, 135-154. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Abu-Malaweh, N., Oakes B., & Hess, J. L. (2022). Empathy development in community-engagement course. Paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
Hess, J. L., Sanders, E., & Fila, N. D. (2022). Measuring and promoting empathic formation in a multidisciplinary engineering design course. Paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
Sanders, E. A., Goldstein, M., & Hess, J. L. (2021). Assessing ways of experiencing human-centered design via student reflections. Paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual.
Hess, J. L., Sathyanarayanan Rao, A., Fore, G., Wu, J., Tovar, A., & Anwar, S. (2018). Quantifying changes in creativity: Findings from an engineering course on the design of complex and origami structures. Paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.
Fila, N. D. & Hess, J. L. (2018). Critical incidents in engineering students’ development of more comprehensive ways of experiencing innovation. Paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hess, J. L. & Fila, N. D. (2016). Empathy in design: A discourse analysis of industrial co-creation practices. Paper presented at the 11th Design Thinking Research Symposium, 13-15 November, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hess, J. L., Brownell, S., House, R. A., & Dale, A. T. (2015). Development and application of the Sustainability Skills and Dispositions Scale to the Wicked Problems in Sustainability Initiative. Paper presented at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
Fila, N. D. & Hess, J. L. (equal authorship, 2014). Exploring the role of empathy in a service-learning design project. Paper presented at the 10th Design Thinking Research Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Jaycox, H., Hess, J. L., Zoltowski, C. B., & Brightman, A. O. (2014). Developing novel practices of somatic learning to enhance empathic perspective-taking for ethical reasoning and engineering design. Paper presented at the IEEE Frontiers in Education Annual Conference, Madrid, Spain.
Hess, J. L., Brownell, S., & Dale, A. (2014). The wicked problems in sustainable engineering (WPSE) initiative: Pilot results of a cross-institutional project-based course offering. Paper presented at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.