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This special session will be organized as a panel through which existing RED grant awardees, who are all members of the RED community of practice and contributed to the writing of their RED grant proposals, will offer specific advice on how to write a compelling NSF RED grant proposal. Specifically, panelists will reflect on experiences they had writing their RED grants, feedback they received through the review process, and experiences they have had since then that gives them a unique understanding of various factors that should be addressed in a RED proposal. Specific attention will be given to organizational and cultural factors that have to be explicitly addressed in the grant proposal. The panelists represent a variety of institutions and types of proposals.

Speakers

1. Dr. Alan Cheville

   Bucknell University

   Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by fourteen years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering education. While at Oklahoma State he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Foundation, he took a position in electrical & computer engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.

2. Dr. Eva Andrijcic

   Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

   Dr. Eva Andrijcic is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she teaches courses in systems engineering, risk management, and engineering management. With a background in risk analysis and management, Dr. Andrijcic has worked on projects in academia and industry ranging from risk analysis of financial assets, to critical civil and cyber infrastructure protection. Since 2014, Dr. Andrijcic has been working in the area of organizational management, with a special emphasis on academic change manager and facilitator of the Making Academic Change Happen (MACH) program, serving as a managing member of the group since 2019. The program aims to equip emerging and experienced faculty, and academic administrators with research-based skills that will help them become empowered change agents in academia. This work has been sponsored by the NSF, as well as by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). Dr. Andrijcic has served as co-Principal Investigator, and is currently the Principal Investigator on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments Participatory Action Research (REDPAR) project, a practice-research collaboration with the University of Washington, that provides customized faculty development support for NSF RED project teams. This work has enabled her to work with and study change agents from over 20 NSF RED teams.

3. Dr. Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy

   Georgia Institute of Technology

   Dr. Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy is the Fredrick L. Olmstead Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
   Professor Amekudzi-Kennedy studies, applies and extends quantitative and qualitative systems methods for infrastructure asset management to promote resilient and sustainable development. Kennedy has authored extensively, developed undergraduate and graduate courses, and provided technical support for multiple international, national, state and local initiatives. She serves as the primary instructor for the required undergraduate course: Civil Engineering Systems, and the graduate elective:Infrastructure Systems, both of which address the proper stewardship of infrastructure. Kennedy is the founding Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability and the Environment in the transportation & Development Institute.

4. Ms. Indira Chatterjee

   University of Nevada, Reno

   Dr. Indira Chatterjee is currently the Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Before this, she served as Associate Dean of Engineering for fourteen years. She has been at the University for 36 years and is also a Foundation Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. She has garnered over 8 million in research grants from various federal agencies, and industry, including the Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health for research in the area of Bioelectromagnetics, Microwave Engineering, and Antennas. She has served as mentor to numerous graduate students. She was trained as an engineering education researcher through a Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has served as PI on an NSF S-STEM grant. She serves as Co-PI on the Engineering Pathways for Access, Community and Transition (EPACT) grant funded by the NSF RED program. Indira was involved in writing a large portion of the grant and in helping put the EPACT team together. EPACT is the first RED grant funded by the National Science Foundation for a community college-university team.

5. Dr. Lynne A Slivovsky

   California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

   Dr. Lynne Slivovsky is Professor and Inaugural Chair of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where she led the effort to create the Computer Engineering Department. Her work navigates the interplay between technology and society through community and equity. She has nurtured long-term partnerships with local community organizations to provide greater access to adapted physical activity through the design of custom devices. As an American Academy of Underwater Sciences Scientific Diver she dives with her students off the Central Coast of California to provide VR/AR educational experiences for K-12 students in marine science. She was recognized as a visionary STEM leader by being selected to the 2020 NSF IAspire Leadership Academy cohort. She is PI of the NSF RED grant Breaking the Binary.

6. Dr. Teodora Rutar Shuman

   Seattle University

   Professor Teodora Rutar Shuman is the former Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Seattle University, a role she served in for 12 years until 2024. She was the PI on an NSF-RED grant between 2017 and 2023. Her research includes culture change and electro-mechanical systems for the sustainable processing of microalgae. Her work is published in venues including the Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Education, ASEE abstract: Special session - panel without paper International Journal of Engineering Education, Transactions of ASME, Chemical Engineering Journal, Bioresource Technology, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Combustion and Flame. She is a member of the ASEE, ASME, and the Algae Biomass Organization. Dr. Shuman served as Chair for the ASEE Energy Conversion and Conservation Division.
   She received a Dipl. Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Belgrade University and an
   M.S.M.E. and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She has held the title of Paccar
   Professor and is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.

7. Dr. Julia M. Williams

   Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

   Dr. Julia M. Williams is the author of Making Changes in STEM Education: The Change Maker's Toolkit (Routledge/CRC Press, 2023), a research-based, practice-focused guide to achieving change in STEM. Beginning in 2012, she served as a founding team member of the Making Academic Change Happen (MACH) Workshop that serves faculty, administrators, and graduate students as they pursue their change goals. She was Principal Investigator on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) Participatory Action Research (PAR) project, a practice-research collaboration that provides customized faculty development support for 26 RED project teams. She is currently a team member on the Engineering Pathways for Access, Community and Transfer (EPACT), the first two year college RED project which brings together community olleges in Nevada with the University of Nevada Reno. Williams’ publications on academic change, assessment, engineering and professional communication, tablet PCs, and ungrading have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, among others. She has been awarded grants from Microsoft, HP, the Engineering Communication Foundation, and National Science Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including inductee to the American Society of Engineering Education Hall of Fame 2023, the 2015 Schlesinger Award (IEEE Professional Communication Society) and 2010 Sterling Olmsted Award (ASEE Liberal Education Division). She is emeritus Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.