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This special session is co-sponsored by the Multidisciplinary and International Divisions, in conjunction with the team preparing the blueprint for the ASEE Inclusive Mindset report. The concept of integrated engineering, implemented as a variety of innovations in engineering education that draw from multiple aspects of the discipline, has great promise for leading change towards a more inclusive engineering mindset. Through a series of sessions at the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), Frontiers in Education (FIE), and ASEE conferences culminating with the Integrated Engineering Education International Symposium (IEEIS) in June of 2024, people have come together to define what integrated or integrative engineering means and support each other in the challenging process of implementing innovation. Programs around the world representing the UK, South Africa, Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Canada, Singapore, Egypt, Chile, and the USA are integrating and addressing a wide variety of contextual facets including interdisciplinarity, professional skills and competencies, work-based learning, design-based education, practical applications, liberal arts, transdisciplinarity, vocation, industry partnerships, and science, technology and society. These align well with the recommendations of the ASEE Inclusive Mindset Report. In this session, representatives from multiple countries will describe their innovations and how they connect to the Report recommendations. Participants will have time to define ways their programs could take the next step towards a more inclusive field of engineering where more people thrive.

For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Advocacy and Policy, and Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology

Moderated by

1. Dr. Gloria J Kim

Speakers

1. Prof. Rebecca A Bates

   Minnesota State University, Mankato

   Dr. Rebecca Bates is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she directs our upper-division, project-based and co-op-based learning engineering programs, Iron Range Engineering & Twin Cities Engineering. These cutting edge programs were recognized with the 2017 ABET Innovation Award and the 2018 Minnesota High Tech Association’s Tekne Award for STEM Workforce Development. She was recognized by the University as a Distinguished Faculty Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. She joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2015 as a rotator Program Officer in the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) in the Directorate of Education and Human Resources (EHR) where she worked through 2016. She supported the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) and the Alliances for Graduate Education & the Professoriate (AGEP) program. In 2017, she was a half-time Program Officer in the Division of Undergraduate Education where she supported the IUSE-EHR (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) program.

   She was a PI on a multi-year, five-institution project examining the impact of connections to community and sense of belonging on STEM student engagement. Other funded work has included the development of community research infrastructure in automatic speech recognition, generation of community statements on new pathways for STEM assessment, evaluation and accreditation, and development and analysis of training methods to support professional development for peer review. She has been the chair of the American Society for Engineering Education Commission (ASEE) on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and works to support inclusive excellence and practices in engineering education and the field of engineering. She is the current chair of the ASEE Ethics Committee and an Engineering Editor for the Online Ethics Center.

   She earned her BS in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. in Electrical Engineering degrees from Boston University, an MTS. (theological studies) degree from Harvard Divinity School, and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. She grew up in Montana and judges figure skating in her spare time.

2. Mrs. Emanuela Tilley

   Dr. Tilley is Professor of Engineering Education and Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London (UCL). She has established an international profile in the areas of leading curriculum design and development as well as cultural change required to support and foster innovation in engineering education within higher education.

   Previously, she designed the curricula for IEP projects and global challenges to introduce problem, experimental, research and enquiry-based learning to a multi-disciplinary first year cohort of engineering students at UCL. Much of her curriculum design and development work has been influenced by her industrial background in mechanical and civil structural engineering, as prior to joining UCL she worked as a consulting engineer, leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams in the design and testing of the world’s most unique tall towers, large structures and masterplans. The Integrated Engineering Programme is an award winning and globally recognised teaching framework embedded in the learning experiences of undergraduate students across UCL Engineering to better prepare them for tackling future global challenges.

   Dr. Tilley is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), the Director of Education at the UCL Centre for Engineering Education (UCL CEE), Co-Lead for the UCL Entrepreneurship Community of Practice and current Vice-President for SEFI (European Society of Engineering Education).

3. Dr. Susan M Lord

   University of San Diego

   Susan M. Lord, PhD, is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Lord’s teaching interests include electronics, optoelectronic materials and devices, service-learning, feminist pedagogy and lifelong learning. From 1993-1997, Dr. Lord taught at Bucknell University. Her industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. In 2012, she taught at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. From 2006-2016, she was chair of Electrical Engineering at USD.

   Dr. Lord’s research has been supported by several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants from programs including CAREER, gender in science and engineering (GSE), and research in engineering education (REE). Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity in engineering including student pathways, diverse populations including Latinos and military veterans, and cross-cultural studies with non U.S. students. She is part of the USD team working on “Developing Changemaking Engineers”, funded by the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) program.

   Since entering college, Dr. Lord has been committed to increasing diversity in engineering particularly supporting women and underrepresented minorities. She co-authored The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering with Dr. Michelle Madsen Camacho of the USD Sociology Department. She and her research team have received best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the IEEE Transactions on Education and the 2013 WEPAN Betty Vetter Award for Research.

   Dr. Lord is active in the international engineering education community. She served as general co-chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference and as the vice president (2007-2008) and president (2009-2010) of the IEEE Education Society. Dr. Lord is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education and the Journal of Engineering Education. She joined the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) facilitation team in 2015 conducting annual workshops for engineering educators.

4. Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter

   Campbell University

   Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of the School of Engineering at Campbell University. She is also Immediate Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), incoming President-Elect of the Mathematical Association of America, and a past president of WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network). Prior to Campbell, Dr. Carpenter was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering, and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University, where she served on the faculty for 26 years.

   Dr. Carpenter is a national expert and thought leader on issues impacting STEM education, innovative STEM curricula, as well as student success of diverse communities of students, faculty, and staff in STEM fields, particularly issues impacting the success of women. She has received over $4.5 million in federal funding and authored more than 150 publications and presentations. In demand as an international speaker, she is a Fellow of ASEE and an ABET Program Evaluator. She chaired for seven years as the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She also chaired the Pilot Program Ad-Hoc Committee for the Gulf Scholars Program for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

   Dr. Carpenter has received numerous awards, including the 2023 ABET Claire Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion. She is a 2023 ASEE Hall of Fame Inductee, one of only 22 people recognized for contributions and impact to engineering education in the US over the last 35 years. Along with Drs. Yannis Yortsos, Rick Miller, and Tom Katsouleas, she is a co-recipient of the 2022 National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Engineering Technology Education (considered the Nobel Prize for Engineering Education) for her role as a co-founder of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. Dr. Carpenter was the recipient of the 2019 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education, the 2018 WEPAN Founder’s Award, which honors a WEPAN member who has made a significant impact for the organization, as well as the 2013 WEPAN Distinguished Service Award. In 2015 DreamBox Learning selected Dr. Carpenter as one of 10 Women in STEM Who Rock! (the only academic among a list of CEOs, politicians and actresses) for her advocacy and her TEDx talk, “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why Aren’t They Here?”