Phone:

812.348.7279

Email:

mendezju@iupuc.edu

Department:

Division of Mechanical Engineering

Campus:

IUPUC

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2009
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2005

Professional Experience

• Senior Environmental Manager, IN Department of Environmental Management, 2015
• Environmental Engineer 2, IN Department of Environmental Management, 2014 – 2015
• Assistant Professor, McNeese State University, 2010 – 2013
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Adolphe Merkle Institute (Switzerland), 2009 – 2010

Funding & Awards

• IU FACET/Mack Center Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Travel Grants, Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
• IUPUC Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Teaching Award, 2021
• IUPUI Curriculum Enhancement Grant, 2019-2020
• IU Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), inducted in 2019
• IU Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2019
• IU Mosaic Initiative Faculty Fellow, 2018-2019

Professional Activities

• American Society for Engineering Education

Recent Publications

• J. Mendez, “Development and Use of Open Educational Resources in an Undergraduate Heat and Mass Transfer Course”, 2021 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, July 26-29, 2021. https://peer.asee.org/36953
• J. Mendez, “Intentional Use of the Learning Management System: A Case Study in Self-Regulatory Behaviors in a Blended Undergraduate Thermodynamics Course”, 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference, Virtual, April 16-17, 2021. https://peer.asee.org/38271
• J. Mendez and J. Lofton, “Two Approaches to Concept Maps in Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics”, 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, June 22-26, 2020. https://peer.asee.org/35405
• J. Mendez, “Instructor and Student Experiences with In-Class Polling Options”, 2019 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference, Evansville, IN, March 23, 2019. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/aseeil-insectionconference/2019/assess/3/
• J. Mendez, “Development of a Hybrid Heat and Mass Transfer Course”, Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 9-15, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2018-87934
• J. Mendez, “Standards-Based Specifications Grading in a Hybrid Course”, 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 23-27, 2018. https://peer.asee.org/30982
• J. Mendez, “Standards-Based Specifications Grading in Thermodynamics”, 2018 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference, West Lafayette, IN, April 7, 2018. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/aseeil-insectionconference/2018/assess/2/