Selected Presentations & Publications

Bailey, Reid, Jennifer Turns, Krina Patel, Susannah Howe, Micah Lande, Eli Patten, & Cynthia J. Atman (2025). Using design timelines for tracking and reflection on design processes: Emerging insights. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada, June 2025. 

Turns, Jennifer, Reid Bailey, Susannah Howe, Krina Patel, Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Micah Lande, Eli Patten, Nicole Batrouny & Cynthia J. Atman (2025). Using Design Signatures to Make the Invisible Visible: Designing Activities for Design Process Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 41, No.4, pp . 928-946.

Atman, Cynthia J. “Design timelines: Concrete and sticky representations of design process expertise.” Design Studies, vol. 65, Nov. 2019, pp. 125–151. (Invited paper for the 40th anniversary issue of Design Studies focused on “Design as a Discipline”.)

Atman, C.J., Adams, R. S., Cardella, M. E., Turns, J., Mosborg, S., and Saleem, J. J. (2007). “Engineering Design Processes: A Comparison of Students and Expert Practitioners.”Journal of Engineering Education, 96(4), 359-379.

Adams, R. S., Turns, J., and Atman, C.J. (2003). “Educating Effective Engineering Designers: the Role of Reflective Practice.” Design Studies, 24(3), 275-294. (Design Studies Best Paper 2013 award).

Atman, C.J., Chimka, J. R., Bursic, K.M., and Nachtmann, H.L. (1999). “A comparison of Freshman and Senior Engineering Design Processes.” Design Studies, 20(2), 131-152.