Publications

Journals ”J”, Conference Proceedings ”C”, Presentations “P”

2025C1, P1. Rodriguez, A. Comparing the attitudes and outcomes of first-time, continuing, and first-generation students in an engineering undergraduate research program, ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June 22-25, 2025.
C2, P2. Rodriguez, A., Castillo, A.L., and Borgaonkar, A.D. Evaluating the impact of changes in DEI programs, policies, and initiatives on graduate student experiences across three HSI universities (Work-in-Progress), ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June 22-25, 2025.
C3, P3. Rodriguez, A., Ratts, L., Fogg, L., Adibi, Y., Barlow, R., Welter, J., and Eakins, J. Systematic literature review on the common misconceptions in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June 22-25, 2025.
C4, P4. Welter, J., Adibi, Y., Barlow, R., Rodriguez, A., and Taylor, G.A. Student performance improvement in a Circuit Analysis course when interactive web-native textbook activities are assigned for points, ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June 22-25, 2025.

C5. Sirokman, G., Barlow, R., Fogg, L., Welter, J., Adibi, Y., Rodriguez, A., Eakins, J., and Ratts, L. Literature review of math misconceptions across engineering disciplines, ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June 22-25, 2025.
2024C6, P5. Rodriguez, A. Mentoring and motivating first generation undergraduate students in engineering to conduct research and persist in STEM (Work-in-Progress), ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 23-26, 2024.
C7, P6. Rodriguez, A. Assessing the efficacy of a pedagogy in an online Mechanics of Materials course with EFL students, ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 23-26, 2024.
C8. Barlow, R., Rodriguez, A., Fogg, L., Ratts, L., Adibi, Y., Welter, J., and Fraley, M. Assessing the effects of an interactive web-native Materials Science textbook on student self-efficacy, ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 23-26, 2024.
C9. Welter, J., Barlow, R., Mason, G., Ratts, L, Gambrel, B., Rodriguez, A., Adibi, Y., and Sarraf, M. Student earnestness in an interactive online Controls textbook when answers are available, ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 23-26, 2024.
2023C10. Rodriguez, A., Fogg, L., Clark, A., Welter, J., Sirokman, G., Barlow, R. Literature survey of how students with visual impairments interact with engineering course materials, ASEE Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 25-28, 2023.
C11. Sirokman, G., Barlow, R., Rodriguez, A., Clark, A., Fogg, L., and Welter, J. The use of 3D printed media to improve the accessibility of engineering educational materials, ASEE Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 25-28, 2023.
C12. Gordon, C., Barlow, R., Sambamurthy, N., Rajasekhar, Y., Gambrel, B., Clark, A., Rodriguez, A., Fogg, L., Ratts, L., Welter, J., and Loeber, J. Student engagement with interactive engineering textbook reading assignments when tied to the grade, ASEE Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 25-28, 2023.
2022C13, P7. Rodriguez, A. A simplified instructional methodology for a Mechanics of Materials course with EFL students, ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2022.
C14, P8. Rodriguez, A. Achieving student outcomes with service-learning in Mechanics of Materials, ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2022.
C15, P9. Rodriguez, A., Rios, O., Barlow, R., and Eakins, J. High-quality text descriptions of visual elements in online interactive versions of traditional print mechanical engineering textbooks, ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2022.
* Best Paper Award (Engineering Libraries Division)
** Best DEI Paper Award Finalist (Conference)
C16, P10. Barlow, R., Rios, O., Eakins, J., and Rodriguez, A. Evaluating the benefits of adding interactive elements to traditional print mechanical engineering textbooks, ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 26-29, 2022.
2018J1. Chatterjee, A., Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Analytic solution for planar indeterminate impact problems using an energy constraint, Multibody System Dynamics. 42 (3) March, pp. 347-379.
2015J2. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Study of Newton’s cradle using a new discrete approach, Multibody System Dynamics. 33 (1) January, pp. 61-92.
2014C17. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Analytic solution for planar indeterminate multiple point impact problems with Coulomb friction, ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Buffalo, New York, August 17-20.
2013C18, P11. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Study of the stick-slip transition of Newton’s cradle with friction, ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Portland, Oregon, August 4-7.
C19. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Analytic treatment of Newton’s Cradle using constraints, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Zagreb, Croatia, July 1-4.
2012C20, P12. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Analytic solution to 3-dimensional, single point collision problems using Stronge’s hypothesis, 2nd Joint International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics (IMSD), Stuttgart, Germany, May 29-June 1.
J3. Rodriguez, A. and Bowling, A. Solution to indeterminate multipoint impact with frictional contact using constraints, Multibody System Dynamics. 28 (4) November, pp. 313-330.
2011C21, P13. Rodriguez A. and Bowling, A. Indeterminate multipoint impact with friction of agile legged robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE-ROBIO), Phuket Island, Thailand, December 7-11.
C22, P14. Rodriguez A. and Bowling, A. Simulation of indeterminate multipoint impact and contact with friction, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium, July 4-7.