Academic Publications
A First Prototype: Collaborating with a LLM to Understand Belonging Among Engineering Design Students
International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), 2025 [In Press]
S. D. Sheppard, G. Muragishi, A. Mouallem, S. Krumme, R. Quaderer, N. Henning, and L. Aquino-Shluzas
Can I Be An Engineer? Factors Influencing Women’s Decisions to Pursue Undergraduate Engineering Studies in the Middle East and North Africa
Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education (J-PEER), 2025 [In Press]
R. Malaeb, J. Sabra, A. Mouallem, and E. Maalouf
"Nothing About Us, Without Us:" Co-Designing an Accessible Engineering Education Tool with the Blind and Low Vision (BLV) Community
Proceedings of the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2025
A. Mouallem, T. Rogando, S. P. Dougherty, M. Mendez Pons, and S. D. Sheppard
🏆 Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award in the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)
Can I Be An Engineer? Factors Influencing Women's Decisions to Pursue Undergraduate Engineering Studies in Lebanon
Proceedings of the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2025
R. Malaeb, E. Maalouf, A. Mouallem, and J. Sabra
🏅 Third Place Best Paper Award in the Pre-College Engineering Education (PCEE) Division
IncluSim: An Accessible Educational Electronic Circuit Simulator for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) Learners
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
A. Mouallem, M. Mendez Pons, A. Malik, T. Rogando, G. S-H Kim, T. Kulkarni, C. Chong, D. Fan, S. Nirav Patel, L. Aquino Shluzas, H. L. Chen, S. D. Sheppard
🏅 Honorable Recognition Award (Top 5% of Submissions)
Promoting Comprehension and Engagement in Introductory Data and Statistics for Blind and Low-Vision Students: A Co-Design Study
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
D. Fan, O. Tomassetti, A. Mouallem, G. S-H Kim, S. Nirav Patel, S. Hwang, P. Leader, D. Sugrue, T. Chen, D. Reese Ou, V. R. Lee, L. Balasubramanian, H. Subramonyam, S. O'Modhrain, and S. Follmer
Leveraging the CARE Methodology to Enhance Pedagogical and Institutional Support for Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) Learners in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Proceedings of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2024
A. Mouallem, T. Kulkarni, and S. D. Sheppard
🏆 Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award (Conference-Wide, Out of 2000+ Submissions)
Designing Good Practices for Recruitment, Admissions, and Program Structure of Engineering Outreach Programs to Increase Access for Marginalized and Non-Traditional Higher Education Students
Proceedings of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2024
S. Travaglini, A. Mouallem, and S. D. Sheppard
A Case for Improving the Accessibility of Electrical and Computer Engineering Education - Starting with a Blind Learner's Autoethnography
Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023
T. Kulkarni, G. S-H Kim, and A. Mouallem
Decades of Alumni: Perspectives on the Impact of Project-Based Learning on Career Pathways and Implications for Design Education
Design Thinking Research: Innovation - Insight - Then and Now (Springer), 2023
S. D. Sheppard, H. L. Chen, G. Toye, A. Mouallem, M. Lande, L. Shluzas, T. Bunk, N. Elfiki, J. Lamprecht, and K. Prantl
The CARE Methodology: A New Lens for Introductory ECE Course Assessment Based on Student Challenging and Rewarding Experiences
Proceedings of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023
A. Mouallem, M. Horowitz, and S. D. Sheppard
The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A New Approach to Looking at the Creative Contributions of Engineering Graduates
Proceedings of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023
F. Kempf, N. Elfiki, A. Mouallem, H. L. Chen, G. Toye, M. Lande, K. Hysi, X. Ge, and S. D. Sheppard
1T1R In-Memory Compute for Winner Takes All Application in Kohonen Neural Networks
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2022
A. Mouallem, H. Fadlallah, L. Bacha, D. El Hajj, R. Jamil, D. Bazazo, and R. Kanj