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Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) imparts a myriad of benefits in engineering education, which extend well beyond the classroom or coursework, and into co-curricular contexts like undergraduate research. In this workshop, participants will engage with the presenting team to explore aspects of their own institutional systems that impact undergraduate engineering research, reflect on the ways their institutions excel in supporting undergraduate research, and identify areas for growth. Then, participants will be introduced to the resources that our presenting team has developed to support undergraduate research across institutional systems through EML.

Moderated by

1. Mandana Ashouripashaki

Speakers

1. Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison

   Rowan University

   Cassandra (Cassie) Jamison is an Assistant Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ). Her research interests focus on understanding and improving the learning that occurs in experiential, out-of-class activities for engineering students. Cassie previously received a B.A. in Engineering Sciences at Wartburg College (Waverly, IA) and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in BME from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).

2. Dr. Irene Reizman

   Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

   Irene Reizman is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She earned her B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in chemical engineering. In addition to teaching and developing engineering courses, Dr. Reizman has mentored over 40 undergraduate researchers through individual projects and the Rose-Hulman International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition team. She is currently co-director of the Rose Research Fellows program and lead investigator on a multi-institution project funded by the National Science Foundation to improve mentorship and expand opportunities for undergraduate research experiences in engineering. Her research encompasses both a technical program, focused on undergraduate projects in synthetic biology, and an engineering education component, examining the impacts of undergraduate research experiences on student mindset and educational outcomes.

3. Dr. Mary Staehle

   Rowan University

   Dr. Mary Staehle is Department Head and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rowan University. Before joining the faculty at Rowan, Dr. Staehle worked at the Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics and Computational Biology at Thomas Jefferson University. She was trained in biomedical and chemical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Delaware.

4. Dr. Michelle Marincel Payne

   Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

   Dr. Michelle Marincel Payne is the Roland E. Hutchins Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Michelle infuses story-driven learning into her courses and recently launched a podcast, Story@Rose, to help students develop their STEM identities. Additionally, she is co-leading a project to infuse an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate research and a project to improve teaming by teaching psychological safety. She leads the Engineering Unleashed Ambassadors program to embed an entrepreneurial mindset into professional societies. Michelle also mentors undergraduate researchers to investigate the removal of stormwater pollutants in engineered wetlands. She is a 2025 ELATES Fellow, and a previous ExCEEd, KEEN, and NSF ASCEND Fellow and ASCE Daniel V. Terrell Awardee. Michelle earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, and her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

5. Mandana Ashouripashaki

   The Ohio State University