Angela Minichiello PhD, PE
Engineering Education
Associate Professor

Contact Information
Office Location: ENGR 217Phone: 435-797-6370
Email: angie.minichiello@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Biography
I am a U.S. Army (Aviation) veteran and former practicing thermal-mechanical engineer. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at Utah State.
Teaching Interests
I teach foundational engineering and engineering science courses to early undergraduates across a variety of engineering sub-disciplines. I am actively involved in transforming these challenging courses to incorporate student-centered approaches to teaching and engineering practice-based learning activities to promote deep understanding of fundamental principles and development of professional skills.
At the graduate level, I engage with students to study the historical and philosophical foundations of the field of engineering education. I am interested in developing graduate level courses in qualitative research methodologies that are aligned within the interpretivist/constructivist, pragmatist, and subjectivist paradigms for application in engineering education research.
Research Interests
My research explores use of 1) educational technology; 2) mobile learning, online learning, and distance education; 3) contemporary engineering practice; and 4) asset-based frameworks to improve access, participation, and inclusivity within all levels of engineering education. I engage with qualitative, mixed-method, and multi-method approaches to better understand student experience for the ultimate purpose of strengthening and diversifying the engineering workforce.
Awards
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2025
Department of Engineering Education
Outstanding Graduate Mentor of the Year, 2024
Utah State University
Graduate Mentor of the Year, 2024
USU College of Engineering
Graduate Mentor of the Year, 2024
USU Department of Engineering Education
Researcher of the Year, 2023
USU Department of Engineering Education
Researcher of the Year, 2022
USU Department of Engineering Education
JEE Star Reviewer Award, 2021
Journal of Engineering Education
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2021
USU Department of Engineering Education
Graduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2020
USU Department of Engineering Education
Co-Researcher of the Year, 2019
USU Department of Engineering Education
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2019
USU Department of Engineering Education
Nominated for ASCE Educator of the Year Award, 2018
USU Student Chapter, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 2018
USU Department of Engineering Education
RGS Washington, DC Faculty Fellow, 2017
Utah State University, Office of Research and Graduate Studies (RGS)
Outstanding Graduate Scholar, 2016
USU College of Engineering
Online Course Selected for Online Teacher Certification Course, 2016
Center for Instructional Innovation and Design
Selected Participant: AERA Narrative Research Special Interest Group Doctoral Student Workshop, 2016
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Graduate Student International Travel Award, 2015
USU Office of Research and Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Student Travel Award, 2015
USU College of Engineering
Research Mentor of the Year, 2014
USU Regional Campuses
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2014
USU Brigham City
Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, 2014
Department of Engineering Education
Online Teaching Fellow, 2013
USU
Accepted as ABET Program Evaluator on behalf of ASME, 2010
ASME, ABET
Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) Best of Business Award, 2009
Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA)
NASA Langley Group Achievement Award, 2006
NASA
Space Dynamics Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award, 2005
Space Dynamics Laboratory
Best Paper Award Runner-up, 2000
7th Inter Society Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship, 1994
NSF
Distinguished Honor Graduate, 1993
US Army Aviation Officer's Advanced Course
Commandant's List Graduate, 1988
US Army Aviation Rotary Wing Flight School
Airborne and Air Assault School Graduate, 1987
Airborne and Air Assault School
Distinguished Graduate, 1987
US Military Academy
First Female Graduate, 1987
US Army JFK Special Warfare Center High Risk SERE School
Publications | Books
- Minichiello, A.L, CHAPTER: The culture and distinctive experiences of U.S. military veterans and service members entering higher education: Supporting military-connected college students: Applying theory to student affairs practice.
- Minichiello, A.L, CHAPTER: Veteran friendly or veteran ready? Employment organizations that support veteran success: Military veterans transitioning to higher education and the civilian workforce: Challenges, opportunities, supports, and resources. Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) Publication Series
- Minichiello, A.L, (2024). CHAPTER: At war with ourselves: Academic professional identity development in the aftermath of U.S. military service. Routledge
- Minichiello, A.L, (2016). CHAPTER: Examining academic integrity in the postmodern: Undergraduates’ use of solutions to complete textbook-based engineering coursework : Qualitative Research in STEM education: Studies of equity, access and innovation.. Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Minichiello, A.L, Blake, T., Goodridge, W.H, Sam, D.D, (2015). CHAPTER: Interdisciplinary team instruction in a distance-delivered first year engineering course : Connected classrooms: Interdisciplinary approaches to distance teaching.. Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Minichiello, A.L, (2006). CHAPTER: A first-order thermal analysis of balloon-borne air-cooled electronics : Heat transfer calculations. McGraw-Hill
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Curriculum
- Minichiello, A.L, (2021). Improving Your School’s COVID-19 Procedures Using the Engineering Design Process. TeachEngineering: STEM Curriculum for K-12
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Lawanto, O., Iqbal, A., Goodridge, W.H, Minichiello, A.L, Galindo-Guerrero, C., Sneed, C., (2024). Adaptation in unplanned and unexpected online learning in post-secondary education. Journal of European Society of Medicine, 12:2
- Asghar, M., Minichiello, A.L, Ahmed, S., (2023). Mental health and wellbeing of undergraduate engineering students: A systematic literature review. Journal of Engineering Education
- Minichiello, A.L, (2022). Factors contributing to the Subjective Well-Being of undergraduate engineering students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19:23, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316284
- Asghar, M., Minichiello, A.L, (2022). Guest Editorial. Two sides to every psyche: Implications of positive psychology for “mental health” research in engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 112:1
- Lawanto, O., Iqbal, A., Goodridge, W.H, Minichiello, A.L, Asghar, M., (2022). Emergency Remote Learning: Developing an understanding about online learning features and students’ feelings. International Journal of Engineering Education, 38:5B, 1629-1642.
- Minichiello, A.L, Lawanto, O., Goodridge, W.H, Iqbal, A., Asghar, M., (2022). Flipping the digital switch: Affective responses of STEM undergraduates to Emergency Remote Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Project Leadership and Society, Special Paper Collection on Digital Learning and Education in a Project Society, 3:100043, 1-13.
- Kulyukin, V.A, Mukherjee, S., Minichiello, A., Truscott, T., (2021). BeePIV: A Method to Measure Apis Mellifera Traffic with Particle Image Velocimetry in Videos . Applied Sciences, 11:5, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052276
- Minichiello, A.L, Caldwell, L., (2021). A narrative literature review of Design-Based Research in engineering education: Opportunities and challenges. Studies in Engineering Education
- Minichiello, A.L, Hanks, E., (2020). Becoming engineers in the middle years: Narrative writing as identity work in an undergraduate engineering course. International Journal of Engineering Education
- Minichiello, A.L, Armijo, D., Mukerjee, S., Caldwell, L., Truscott, T., Kulyukin, V.A, Bhouraskar, A., Elliott, J., (2020). Developing a mobile application-based particle image velocimetry tool for enhanced teaching and learning in fluid mechanics: A design-based research approach.. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22290
- Wilson, A., Strong, A., Sias, C., Garlick, J., Minichiello, A.L, Weingart, S., Acosta-Feliz, J., (2020). A systematic review of argumentation about the engineering-designed world. Journal of Engineering Education, 109:2, 281-306.
- Minichiello, A.L, Marx, S., McNeill, L.S, Hailey, C., (2019). Exploring student study behaviours in engineering: How undergraduates prepared textbook problems for online submission. European Journal of Engineering Education, 44:1-2, 253-270. doi: 10.1080/03043797.2018.1474342
- Lawanto, O., Minichiello, A.L, Uziak, J., Febrian, A., (2019). Task affect and task understanding in engineering problem solving. Journal of Technology Education, 30:2
- Minichiello, A.L, Hood, J.R, Harkness, D.S, (2018). Bringing user experience design to bear on STEM education: A narrative literature review. Journal for STEM Education Research, 1:1, 7-33. doi: 10.1007/s41979-018-0005-3
- Lawanto, O., Minichiello, A.L, Uziak, J., Febrian, A., (2018). Students' task understanding during problem solving in an introductory thermodynamics course. International Education Studies, 11:7
- Minichiello, A.L, (2018). From deficit thinking to counter storying: A narrative inquiry of nontraditional undergraduate experience in engineering education. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (IJEMST), 6:3
- Wilson, A., Minichiello, A.L, (2017). Disciplinary literacy in engineering. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 6:1, 7-14.
- Minichiello, A.L, Glezer, A., Hartley, J.G, Black, W.Z, (1997). Thermal management of sealed electronic enclosures using synthetic jet technology. Advances in Electronic Packaging, 2:ASME, 1809-1812.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
- Minichiello, A.L, (2021). Army meets Academy. Utah State Alumni Magazine *
- Belady, C., Minichiello, A.L, (2003). Effective thermal design for electronic systems. Electronics Cooling Magazine
Other
- Minichiello, A.L, (2016). Toward alternative pathways: Nontraditional student success in a distance–delivered, undergraduate engineering transfer program. ProQuest
- Minichiello, A.L, (2015). Sheri Sheppard: Teaching and Learning Scholarship in Engineering: Engineering Education Pioneers and Trajectories of Impact Project. University of Washington
- Minichiello, A.L, (1997). The development of a heat transfer module (HTM) for the thermal management of electronic enclosures. Georgia Institute of Technology
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.