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Bio

Athena Lin is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She is also a writing consultant at the Purdue On-Campus Writing Lab (OWL)

Her research interests center around engineering ethics education and preparing students for responsible engineering practice. Before graduate school, she worked at Texas Instruments as a semiconductor packaging engineer and received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Selected Publications

Lin, A., & Hess, J. L. (2022). Understanding influences on engineering students’ civic engagement in high school and the first year of college.IEEE Transactions on Education. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3193580

Lin, A., & Hess, J. L. (2022). Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in engineering education using mixed methods. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.308

Lin, A., & Hess, J. L. (2022). Exploring ethical motivation in an undergraduate engineering ethics course. Paper to be presented at the 2022 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, October 8-11, 2022.

Lin, A. (2022). How do engineering education graduate students perceive and negotiate disciplinary expectations in academic writing? Paper presented at the 2022 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2022.

Lin, A., Hess, J. L., & Carrillo-Fernandez, A. P. (2021). The relationship between empathy and civic-mindedness in first-year engineering students. Paper presented at the 2021 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Virtual, October 13-16, 2021.

Lin, A., & Hess, J. L. (2021). Developing a framework for civic responsibility in engineering education. Paper presented at the 2021 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Virtual, July 26-29, 2021.

Lin, A., & Hess, J. L. (2020). Educating civic-minded engineers: A qualitative study of first-year engineering students. Paper presented at the 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Virtual, October 21-24, 2020.