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Dr. Jenna Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University and President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). An expert on issues impacting success of women in STEM and innovative STEM curricula, she has held national leadership roles including ASEE Vice President, WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network) President and Mathematical Association of America First Vice-President. In addition, she chaired the National Academies Ad Hoc Committee on the Gulf Scholars Program. Carpenter is co-recipient of the 2022 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Techology Education from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her contributions as one of the pioneers of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. Carpenter is an ABET Program Evaluator and on the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council. In 2015, DreamBox Learning selected her as one of 10 Women in STEM Who Rock! for her advocacy and TEDx talk, “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why aren’t They Here?”, the only academic on a list of CEOs, politicians, and actresses. She received the 2019 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education, as well as the 2018 WEPAN Founder’s Award and 2013 WEPAN Distinguished Service Award.

S. K. Ramesh, Ph.D., is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and the former director and lead principal investigator of the AIMS² Program supported by a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s HSI-STEM program. AIMS² has received several national and international awards for improving student success with high impact practices including undergraduate research and peer mentoring. It was selected as the 2019 baccalaureate program of the year and named the 2019 Example of Excelencia by Excelencia in Education. Ramesh served as dean of California State University, Northridge’s College of Engineering and Computer Science from 2006 to 2017, where he established several innovative programs focusing on renewable energy, assistive technology and advanced manufacturing. Prior to joining CSUN, he was professor of electrical and electronic engineering at California State University, Sacramento, where he served as the department chair from 1994 to 2006.

He served on the ABET Board of Directors as the Director of the Engineering Area Delegation and was a member of ABET’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Advisory Council. Additionally, Ramesh is an experienced Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Program Evaluator (PEV) and has performed several ABET accreditation visits in the U.S. and internationally. Ramesh has been an active IEEE volunteer for 38 years and served on several Boards, including the IEEE Board of Directors, IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB), the IEEE-HKN Board of Governors, IEEE Publications Services and Products Board (PSPB), IEEE Awards Board (AB) and the ABET Board of Delegates. Key leadership roles include his service as the 2016-2017 IEEE Vice President of Educational Activities and the 2016 IEEE-HKN President (Electrical Engineering Honor Society).

His many recognitions include the John Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year, William Johnson International award for leadership and contributions to the profession and the IEEE Region 6 Community Service award. Ramesh’s professional interests are in fiber optic communications, and he received the BE (Honors) degree from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (REC, Trichy) and now NITT, in 1981, and the MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Ramesh was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 2015 “for contributions to entrepreneurship in engineering education.”

Michael K. J. Milligan is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of ABET, the global accreditor of over 4,300 college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology.

Prior to joining ABET in 2009, Milligan was a systems director at the Aerospace Corporation, leading a team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center developing the next generation environmental satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Milligan served over 24 years as a career U.S. Air Force officer working in operations, education, international research & development, and technology acquisition. During his USAF career, he served as an associate professor and deputy department head in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Milligan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, his M.S.E. from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his B.S. from Michigan State University — all in electrical engineering. He also earned an M.B.A. in Business Administration from Western New England College, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Colorado and Maryland, and a Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Milligan is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Director of Professional Offerings at ABET. She also serves as Assistant Dean Emerita for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and is a faculty member and ABET Coordinator in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Over the past 32 years, Briedis has served ABET as a program evaluator for AIChE, a team chair and member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), the first chair of the EAC Training and Materials Development Committee and an Executive Committee member of the EAC. She was a program evaluator on one of the very first “EC2000” visits and subsequently chaired several new criteria visits. Briedis has been an AIChE Representative Director on the ABET Board of Directors and has been involved in the design teams for the new program evaluator and train-the-trainers training materials. She is a lead facilitator for the program evaluator training sessions. She also consults in the area of accreditation and assessment and evaluation and serves on the Board of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007, a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011 and a Fellow of ASEE in 2015. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

Larraine Kapka is a Professor Emeritus at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. She received her B.S. degree from the University of Missouri in Mechanical Engineering and has M.S. degrees from both the University of Central Missouri (Industrial Management) and the University of Dayton (Mechanical Engineering). She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio, where her disciplinary specialty is Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning. Before working in academia full-time, Kapka served in the Air Force and spent 20 years working in industry as a Department of Energy contractor. She has significant experience preparing self-studies for ABET visits at her own institution as a faculty member, Department Chair and Assistant Dean. She has served as an ABET evaluator and team chair for several years. She is the current Engineering Technology Accreditation Director for ABET. Besides being an ABET Director and Evaluator, she has been the chair for the subcommittee designing training for new PEVs (PEVC training). She spends hours each year updating and teaching in this course. She is proud of two awards she earned while working in Industry: being named an “Energy Manager of the Year” by the Department of Energy, and receiving a national Federal Energy Efficiency award. As an academic, she received the Rousche Excellence in Teaching award from the League for Innovation. Besides her work in ABET, she remains active in both ASHRAE and ASME, serving on the ASME Committee for Engineering Technology Accreditation and as a national scholarship evaluator.

Dr. J. Torey Nalbone serves as the Department Head for Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction Management at the University of Texas at Tyler. In addition to his leadership role in the Department, he oversees these two programs in Houston, Texas at the Houston Engineering Center. Nalbone has also played additional roles in leadership at UT Tyler, twice as the as a Chair of the Academic Chairs Council and currently as Chair of the Graduate Council.

Nalbone is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) with over forty years of industrial hygiene and human health protection engineering experience. He is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). He has also served as Chair of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and has received the ACGIH Meritorious Achievement award in 2017.

Nalbone has been involved with ABET for more than 25 years. He has served as the program evaluator for Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Health and Safety for Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission (ANSAC) of ABET. Nalbone is a commissioner for ANSAC of ABET and has served as a member of the Executive Committee and as Chair of the ANSAC Commission in 2018-19. Nalbone has served as a Visit Team Chair for both domestic and international visits serving on two of the largest visit teams in ABET operations.

At the University of Texas at Tyler, Nalbone was appointed Department Chair of Construction Management in 2010 and then also as Department Chair for Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2011. His career includes experience as environmental and industrial hygiene analyst at the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science (SWIFS) in Dallas, Texas and as a industrial Hygiene compliance manager with the Oregon State Plan OSHA (Or OSHA) and as a Deputy State Fire Marshal for Hazardous Materials. His academic career began as an instructor of Environmental Science and Industrial Hygiene at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville Texas and then as Assistant Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Texas Heath Center, Tyler. Nalbone was appointed Program Co-Director of the Graduate Program of Environmental Science and Deputy Director of the Southwest Agriculture Center (NIOSH Center) in 2001. He moved to the University of Texas at Tyler in 2006, as Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and assumed the Chair positions of the two departments after four years on faculty.

Nalbone earned his Ph.D. from the Texas A&M University.

Douglas Bowman, Ph.D., entered the engineering profession in 1978 after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy with a degree in general engineering. He attended Stanford University as a Hertz Fellow, receiving MSEE and Ph.D. degrees in 1983 and 1986, respectively. During a multifaceted career, he held a wide variety of engineering and leadership positions in the military, academia and the aerospace industry until retiring from Lockheed Martin.

A senior member of the IEEE and the AIAA, Bowman is also a registered professional engineer and an ABET Fellow. Included among his activities are stints on the NSPE Industry Advisory Group and the AIAA Systems Engineering Technical Committee. Other accomplishments include service on the Research Advisory Committee of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland and the Board of Directors of the Microelectronics and Computer Technologies Corporation. He currently serves as an adjunct accreditation director for the EAC of ABET.

Winston F. Erevelles, Ph.D., F.ABET., is Dean Emeritus, Special Advisor to the President and Professor of Engineering at St. Mary’s University. During his 12 year tenure as Dean of the School of Science, Engineering and Technology, he led the development and enhancement of the school’s education and research capabilities, community and industrial outreach, and domestic and international partnerships, with over $45 million raised to support these initiatives. His current projects include a STEM Innovation Center that is currently under construction and a new Nursing program. Erevelles previously served in engineering, faculty and leadership roles at Robert Morris University, Kettering University and Mykron Engineers (India) over a 25-year period.

Erevelles earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Management (manufacturing engineering emphasis) from the University of Missouri-Rolla. His affiliation with ABET began in 1998 and includes service as a Program Evaluator, Team Chair and Chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC). He currently serves as an Adjunct Accreditation Director for the EAC of ABET.

For over 25 years, Lisa Sachs was a key contributor to the success of two of the largest multi-billion dollar educational construction management bond programs in California, initially as a principal of her own firm and then as managing principal of Cumming, after merging firms. Recognized as an industry leader, she was inducted into the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) College of Fellows in 2012 and 2017. She is past president of the CMAA Southern California Chapter and Chapter Foundation, and in 2014 was appointed by CMAA as its first ABET commissioner representing construction management in the applied and natural sciences where she is currently serving on the Executive Committee. Sachs also serves on the CMAA National Foundation and Southern California Chapter Foundation Boards, the Cal State University of Northridge CM Industry Liaison Council, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architectural Program Advisory Council (her alma matter).

Rebecca Popeck is a licensed Land Surveyor at Rosemont based SPACECO, Inc., a civil engineering, land surveying and consulting firm. Popeck studied Land Survey Engineering and Civil Engineering at Purdue University’s West Lafayette Campus earning bachelor’s degrees in both disciplines. She has been a licensed Illinois Land Surveyor since 2005. Popeck has spent almost 20 years performing surveys and providing surveying services in the greater Chicagoland area. Her specialties include development work in residential, commercial and industrial sectors with an increased focus on projects within the limits of the City of Chicago. She joined ABET in 2006 as a Program Evaluator supporting her member society of National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). NSPS is a member of three accreditation commissions including ANSAC, EAC and ETAC. She has had the pleasure of serving as a PEV for both ETAC and ANSAC visits early in her ABET career. In 2014, Popeck became a commissioner/team chair for the Applied and Natural Science Commission. In 2017, she further progressed through the ranks to join ANSAC’s executive committee. During the 2019-2020 accreditation cycle, Popeck was a team chair for her first international visit to Krishnan Kovil, Tamil Nadu, India.

As chief accreditation officer and chief information officer since 2011, Joe Sussman leads ABET’s global accreditation operations, collaborating with the organization’s volunteer leadership in both tactical execution and strategic development of ABET’s accreditation practice. Previously, he spent 26 years as an engineering leader and senior business executive at Bayer AG, leading many of the company’s quality, manufacturing, and IT efforts. After retiring from Bayer he became an industry specialist at Deloitte Consulting, where he worked with many global clients. Before joining the ABET staff, he served for 24 years in nearly every volunteer capacity, including as program evaluator for mechanical engineering programs, chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission, representative director from ASME on the ABET Board of Directors, and president (2008–2009). He was inducted as an ABET fellow in 2002 after having played a pivotal role in implementing the ground-breaking Engineering Criteria 2000. In 2011 he was elected an ASME fellow for his contributions to quality in engineering education, and in 2015 he received the Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the technical disciplines through his work in accreditation. He earned his baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

Jane Emmet has been responsible for the management and administration of ABET’s accreditation policies and procedures and the overall operations of ABET’s accreditation processes since November, 2015. She joined ABET in January of 2014 as the Training Manager responsible for the training of the over 2,000 volunteer professionals who serve ABET. Her background, prior to joining ABET, includes directing and managing training and leadership development programs at professional service organizations, energy companies and developing education programs for history museums. Jane holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in History/Education and a master’s degree in Museum Education from The George Washington University. She also holds a Graduate Certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Instructional Systems Design.

Cindy Anderson (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting. Anderson specializes in innovative sustainability- and online-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government, and corporations. She has taught thousands of people through courses and workshops, around the world and online, in the fields of biology, sustainability, and biomimicry. She is honored to be a collaborative partner on the Engineering for One Planet initiative since its inception, co-author of the EOP Framework and new framework integration guides, and active EOP Network Member.

Anderson holds a M.S. from Oregon State University, a MEd from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia), a BSc in biology from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) and a graduate certificate in public health from the University of Montana.

Cindy Cooper leads The Lemelson Foundation’s Engineering for One Planet initiative, an effort to equip tomorrow’s engineers with the skills, knowledge and understanding to protect and improve our planet and our lives. For more than 20 years, Cooper has fostered social and environmental impact through innovation, working across academic, philanthropic, business and entrepreneurship fields. She co-founded and led award-winning organizations and programs in higher education and international development, including the world’s first website for fair trade Spanish lessons through videoconferencing. A Brazilian American, she holds a Global MBA with distinction from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Psychology/Spanish BA summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College.

Michael K. J. Milligan is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of ABET, the global accreditor of over 4,300 college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology.

Prior to joining ABET in 2009, Milligan was a systems director at the Aerospace Corporation, leading a team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center developing the next generation environmental satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Milligan served over 24 years as a career U.S. Air Force officer working in operations, education, international research & development, and technology acquisition. During his USAF career, he served as an associate professor and deputy department head in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Milligan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, his M.S.E. from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his B.S. from Michigan State University — all in electrical engineering. He also earned an M.B.A. in Business Administration from Western New England College, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Colorado and Maryland, and a Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Milligan is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Deborah Whitfield is a Computer Science professor at Slippery Rock University. She has been involved in the assessment since 1998 and ABET accreditation since 2001. Whitfield’s involvement in promoting diversity includes being a co-PI on a PDE Keystone/Frederick Douglas Collaborative Grant: “Creating an Environment Supportive of Diversity in Computing Courses,” a member of SRU’s Gender committee (formerly Women’s Studies Committee) and a member of NCWIT. In addition, she is advisor and founder of student organization “Women in Computing at the Rock” (WiCR) and is the advisor of the ASL (American Sign Language) Club. Whitfield is also developing an app for assisting the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate with each other.

Jennifer “Jenny” Amos, Ph.D., joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering with affiliations in Educational Psychology, Healthcare Systems Engineering and Medicine. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of South Carolina. She is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Board of Director Member, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education and has won multiple awards and recognitions for her teaching and scholarship of teaching. Outside of BMES, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of-its-kind engineering-driven college of medicine. Amos is part of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions. Amos has served as an ABET PEV for BMES since 2012 and a commissioner for the Engineering Accreditation Commission at ABET from 2018 until 2021. She is 2011 IDEAL Scholar graduate and has been leading program assessment workshops since 2012.

Ben Juliano is a Professor of Computer Science at California State University, Chico. He served as the campus interim chief institutional research officer and WASC accreditation liaison officer and has served the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management as Associate Dean in 2016, Interim Associate Dean in 2015-2016, Interim Dean in 2013-2015 and Associate Dean in 2010-2013. He also served as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011-2013. In 2007-2013, serving as the college’s assessment coordinator, he managed and facilitated all assessment, accreditation and academic program review efforts for all 11 undergraduate programs (nine accredited) and two graduate programs offered in his college.

Juliano was the Director of the Institute for Research in Intelligent Systems (IRIS) and Co-director of the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) in his college. His research interests are in data visualization and predictive analysis, intelligent systems, data mining and computational intelligence algorithms. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of the Philippines in Los Baños and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science and a certificate in cognitive science from Florida State University. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar and a WASC Assessment Leadership Academy alumni.

April Cheung currently serves as the Chair-Elect of ETAC at ABET, previously chairing the ETAC Training Committee. Her experience in ABET also includes roles as: Program Evaluator, Team Chair and Editor. She served on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation Activities (CETAA) from 2010-2012 and 2016-present, where she chairs the CETAA Communications Committee. Cheung was a research and development manager at BraunAbility, where she managed and developed new products and technologies for wheelchair accessible vehicles. She was also an Electronics Engineering Manager for IMMI, where she managed and developed electronic active and passive safety products used in class 8 trucks, fire trucks and ambulances. She is currently an assistant professor of practice at Purdue University Polytechnic Institute at West Lafayette, Indiana.

Raju Dandu is the Chair-Elect of Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET and served on ABET Governance as a member of board of delegates. Dandu is an experienced American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Engineering Technology Program Evaluator (PEV), ETAC Commissioner and has performed several ABET accreditation visits in the U.S. and internationally. Dandu served as a member of the ASME Committee on Engineering Education, Board of Directors of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Board of Directors of Salina Area United Way. Dandu provided consulting services in product design, manufacturing, industrial automation, patent filing, grant writing, startup business development, product CE certification, reliability centered maintenance and training industry workforce. Currently, he works with a team of industry experts at Bulk Solids Innovation Center (BSIC), the only university-centered facility and staff in North America dedicated to improving technology and knowledge of powder and bulk solids handling of various industries including: food, chemicals, minerals, pharmaceuticals and plastics. From research, education, training, access to technology and lab scale sample to full-scale testing of dry bulk solids, this unique Center identifies and solves real-world industrial problems.

Dandu is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Director of Kansas State University BSIC. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, Diploma Engineer from Slovak Technical University, Czechoslovakia in Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering, and Diploma in Automobile Engineering from Andhra Polytechnic, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He also served as graduate program director Kansas State University Salina campus. Dandu is fluent in spoken and written English, Slovak, Czech and Telug and can communicate in Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Hindi.

Donna Reese is Professor Emerita of Computer Science at Mississippi State University where she retired as Head of Computer Science and Engineering in 2017. She is currently serving as President of CSAB, the professional society for all computing accreditation as well as on the Computing Area Delegation, the Engineering Area Delegation and the Board of Delegates for ABET. Reese also serves as a lead facilitator for ABET’s Program Evaluator Training. She began her ABET service in 2005 as a PEV and was elected to the Computing Accreditation Commission in 2009. After serving on the ExCom of CAC from 2014-2017, she served as the Chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission in 2017-18. Reese was named an ABET Fellow in 2020.

Lawrence G. Jones’ 35+ years of ABET service includes: 2015-16 President, Accreditation Council Chair and Computing Accreditation Commission Chair. Lately, he has led projects to accredit associate programs in cybersecurity and bachelor degree programs in data science and helped investigate piloting ABET recognition of certificates.

Jones' U.S. Air Force career includes Chair of Computer Science at the USAF Academy. He retired from Carnegie-Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute as Distinguished Principal Researcher.

His B.S and M.S. in Industrial Engineering are from the University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. in Computer Science is from Vanderbilt. He is a Fellow of ABET and CSAB and recipient of ABET’s Grinter Award for Distinguished Service.

Barbara Price received her B.S. degree in mathematics from Grove City College and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Virginia Tech. Her academic career began at New River Community College before accepting positions at other schools including: Radford University, Mississippi State University, Lynchburg College, Winthrop University and Georgia Southern University. At Georgia Southern, Price served as Department Chair in the College of Business Administration, Founding Director of the School of Information Technology, Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Interim Associate Vice President for Continuing Education. She served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She was recognized as a Fellow of CSAB and a Fellow of ABET in 2013.

Price’s ABET service includes her current role as Secretary of the ABET Board of Directors, past member of the Computing Area Delegation and the Board of Delegates, Lead/Support Facilitator for PEVC Training, member of the Accreditation Council Training Committee and CAC Chair for the 2012-2013 cycle.

Dr. John Vian is a Boeing Technical Fellow working in advanced flight automation, urban air mobility concepts and collaborative education initiatives in Ethiopia. Vian has served ABET since 1997 in various roles, including: IEEE Program Evaluator, Engineering Accreditation Commissioner, Executive Committee/Editor 1, Team Chair, Engineering Area Delegation and Board of Delegates.

Jessica Silwick is both CFO and COO for ABET. As CFO, she is responsible for developing ABET’s financial management strategy, budget development, forecasting and the integrity of the financial information. Silwick is also responsible for monitoring investments of strategic reserves. As COO, Silwick oversees communications and marketing, professional assessment offerings, office operations, overall management of Human Resources and serves as Lead Internal Auditor for ABET’s Quality Management System to ensure continued ISO compliance and certification.

Prior to ABET, Silwick gained experience working for large organizations in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and energy fields. Silwick earned her bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame of Maryland and an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler School of Business. She is also an active Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and has earned professional certificates from Yale and Cornell Universities. In 2015, Silwick received the AICPA’s Women to Watch, Emerging Leader Award by the Greater Washington Society of CPAs. Outside her busy professional life, Silwick enjoys practicing yoga and hiking with her husband, two children and dogs.

Dr. Christina Viau Haden is a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Lehigh University. Her research involves the material property prediction of additively manufactured metals. Besides her research, a passion for teaching has lead her to co-develop of a new interdisciplinary course at Lehigh at the intersection of art and engineering on the topic of Leonardo da Vinci's life works. Haden also leads her department's ABET accreditation process, enjoys being an ABET facilitator and serves as the chair of her department's undergraduate curriculum committee. Haden is also deeply committed to improving the retention rates of women in STEM. She runs a yearly three-day welcome event for incoming engineering freshwomen at Lehigh University, offers a mentoring program for women in her department and advises the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) local chapter, among others.

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

Mike McMeekin is one of the founders of Engineering Change Lab-USA (ECL), a non-profit focused on the future of engineering and fostering change in engineering that will increase its contributions in support of a more resilient society. He became ECL’s first President/Executive Director in 2019. McMeekin served as President of Lamp Rynearson, an engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1997-2017. Following his tenure as President, he served as Chairman of the Board and Senior Advisor from 2017-2021. He has over 45 years of engineering experience and has played a leadership role in numerous signature projects in the Omaha area.

McMeekin is a graduate of the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Senior Executives Institute, an advanced management, leadership and public policy training program for current and emerging leaders of engineering and architectural firms.

Larraine Kapka is a Professor Emeritus at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. She received her B.S. degree from the University of Missouri in Mechanical Engineering and has M.S. degrees from both the University of Central Missouri (Industrial Management) and the University of Dayton (Mechanical Engineering). She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio, where her disciplinary specialty is Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning. Before working in academia full-time, Kapka served in the Air Force and spent 20 years working in industry as a Department of Energy contractor. She has significant experience preparing self-studies for ABET visits at her own institution as a faculty member, Department Chair and Assistant Dean. She has served as an ABET evaluator and team chair for several years. She is the current Engineering Technology Accreditation Director for ABET. Besides being an ABET Director and Evaluator, she has been the chair for the subcommittee designing training for new PEVs (PEVC training). She spends hours each year updating and teaching in this course. She is proud of two awards she earned while working in Industry: being named an “Energy Manager of the Year” by the Department of Energy, and receiving a national Federal Energy Efficiency award. As an academic, she received the Rousche Excellence in Teaching award from the League for Innovation. Besides her work in ABET, she remains active in both ASHRAE and ASME, serving on the ASME Committee for Engineering Technology Accreditation and as a national scholarship evaluator.

Jean R. S. Blair is the EECS Distinguished Professor for Innovation and a Professor of Computer Science at the United States Military Academy where she previously held positions as deputy to the Chief Academic Officer, director of the Computer Science Program and director of the Information Systems Engineering Program. She spent several sabbatical years at the University in Bergen, Norway, where she served as a visiting professor and senior research scientist. Before joining the USMA faculty in 1994, Blair spent eight years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a research scientist. Blair earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.S. degree from Allegheny College, double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial problems, with recent emphasis on graph algorithms and curricular design for emerging computing disciplines. She is author of numerous academic articles and has received research grants and awards from various agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Labs.

Blair serves as a commissioner and team chair for the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET and is a member of the CAC Executive Committee. She volunteers as an accreditation team member for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, has been active in local and regional leadership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), was on the Steering Committee for the Cyber Education Project, has been a member of the working groups that developed accreditation criteria for Data Science programs, was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Computing and Information, and was a guest editor for Discrete Mathematics. Blair is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). She is a member of the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines (Upsilon Pi Epsilon), the international honor society in social sciences (Pi Gamma Mu) and was an Alden Scholar at Allegheny College.

Dr. Lu Yuan, CSP, is Professor of Occupational Safety, Health and Environment at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Yuan has been extensively involved in occupational ergonomic and safety research in construction and other industrial sectors. He is a professional member of American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). Yuan was awarded the William E. Tarrants Outstanding Safety Educator of the Year by ASSP in 2015 for his innovative approach to teaching, incorporating new technology and teaching approaches to reach the students. He received the Craft Workforce Development Champion Award from the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance in 2016 for his academic leadership in the field. He currently serves as a Member-at-Large of the ABET Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission Executive Committee.

Dr. Janet Callahan, Ph.D., serves as Dean of the College of Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She is a member of the Engineering Accreditation Council's Executive Committee of ABET. Callahan's service to ABET has included more than 25 visits since 2004. In her role with ABET, she has served as PEV for three different societies. Across her career, she has served in many roles: first in a research capacity where she established her career in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Georgia Tech. She then went on to help establish the new MSE department at Boise State University, where she also served as Associate Dean and Chair as she worked to broaden participation in the engineering fields across the region. Now Callahan serves as Dean of the College of Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Callahan's work has been recognized by her societies; she is a Fellow of the American Ceramics Society and the American Society for Engineering Education.

Robyn Hall serves as ABET’s Director of Professional Programs. In her current capacity, she oversees ABET’s portfolio of assessment education. Prior to this, Hall served as the Assistant Vice President for Seminars and Digital Learning at AACSB International. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Eckerd College, MBA from the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa and, more recently, her Master Trainer certificate from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).

James N. Warnock is a professor and the founding chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Before coming to Athens, Warnock served as the associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and a master’s in biochemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, before completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Warnock has conducted research in the areas of cell and gene biomanufacturing, bioreactor design, tissue engineering and cellular mechanobiology. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international acclaim for his work using problem-based learning to enable students to develop professional skills. He currently serves as the director for Engineering Workforce Development for the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT).

Warnock is an adjunct director of professional offerings for ABET. In this role, he facilitates the planning, production and execution of the organization’s professional development programming and directs activities related to educational offerings and workshop-facilitator training.

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Director of Professional Offerings at ABET. She also serves as Assistant Dean Emerita for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and is a faculty member and ABET Coordinator in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Over the past 32 years, Briedis has served ABET as a program evaluator for AIChE, a team chair and member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), the first chair of the EAC Training and Materials Development Committee and an Executive Committee member of the EAC. She was a program evaluator on one of the very first “EC2000” visits and subsequently chaired several new criteria visits. Briedis has been an AIChE Representative Director on the ABET Board of Directors and has been involved in the design teams for the new program evaluator and train-the-trainers training materials. She is a lead facilitator for the program evaluator training sessions. She also consults in the area of accreditation and assessment and evaluation and serves on the Board of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007, a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011 and a Fellow of ASEE in 2015. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

Dr. Gina Cooper has been teaching at DeVry University since June 1999. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University in Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree from Ohio State University in Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. from Wright State University in Computer Science and Engineering with specializations of database, math and bioinformatics. She has presented her bioinformatics research at an IEEE International Bioinformatics Conference in Taiwan in May 2004 and in Las Vegas in July 2009. Since then she has published papers in the proceedings of computer science education conferences relating to courses she developed and improved. Since joining DeVry, Cooper's instructional area of focus is information systems.

Dr. Jingdi "Rebecca" Zeng received her Ph. D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. She joined DeVry University after working as a research and development scientist in different institutions. As the faculty chair of Colleges and Curriculum, her main responsibility is the curriculum development and assessment of the Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity programs. Holding various industry certifications, Zeng is a seasoned Cisco Networking Academy instructor and an AWS Academy accredited educator. She is a long-time IEEE member, an ABET program evaluator and a strong advocate and mentor for women in STEM.

Alisa N. Gilmore is an Associate Professor of Practice in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. She teaches courses in circuits, robotics and control systems, serves as the chair of the Continuous Improvement of Teaching and Learning committee in the College of Engineering, and oversees assessment in the ECE department. Gilmore is passionate about engineering education at the college level, implementing research-based instructional practices for in-person, remote, blended and distance classrooms to tackle student engagement and student learning outcome attainment. She is a program evaluator for ABET's Engineering Accreditation Commission, a Senior IEEE member and a 2016 ABET IDEAL Scholar.

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

Karen Tarnoff, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Assessment and International Programs for the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University. In this capacity, she coordinates the assessment of student learning outcomes across seven diverse departments (i.e., Accountancy; Economics and Finance; Management and Marketing; Computing; Military Science; and Engineering, Engineering Technology, Surveying; and Digital Media) and multiple accrediting bodies (i.e., SACS, AACSB, ABET, NASAD, CIDA). She has given numerous presentations on assurance of learning and assessment-related topics and, likewise, has helped many schools develop, implement and refine their assessment systems. Tarnoff is a Global Lead Facilitator for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) having authored materials for its Assurance of Learning I and II Seminars and having served as a seminar facilitator since 2005. Tarnoff is pleased to be joining ABET to facilitate Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshops and create content for other offerings. Her primary areas of research include assessment of student learning, the skills gap, team-based work systems and shared mental models.

Dr. Ramiro Jordan is a scientist, innovator, educator and entrepreneur. He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico. Currently, he is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Global Initiatives. His research activities include sustainability, Peace Engineering, smart grids, cognitive radio, multidimensional signal processing, and software development. He is the founder of the Ibero-American Consortium for Science and Technology Education (ISTEC), December 1990.He was the president of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Nov. 2018-2020. He is a founding member of the Peace Engineering Consortium, outcome of the first global conference on Peace Engineering, Nov. 2018, Albuquerque, NM.

Dr. Paul Herrera has received academic training in Agricultural Economics and Business Administration and professional experience in education management. He has held various leading positions in scientific research and academic management at the national and international level. Over the last five years, Herrera has been the general Vice Chancellor (provost) of Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil-Ecuador, after being Dean of Graduate Programs (2012 and 2015). ESPOL is the only public university in Ecuador that has reached international accreditation with four different agencies and ranks second among south American countries by number of ABET accredited programs.

Jane Emmet has been responsible for the management and administration of ABET’s accreditation policies and procedures and the overall operations of ABET’s accreditation processes since November, 2015. She joined ABET in January of 2014 as the Training Manager responsible for the training of the over 2,000 volunteer professionals who serve ABET. Her background, prior to joining ABET, includes directing and managing training and leadership development programs at professional service organizations, energy companies and developing education programs for history museums. Jane holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in History/Education and a master’s degree in Museum Education from The George Washington University. She also holds a Graduate Certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Instructional Systems Design.

Sherri Hersh has been with ABET for nearly 16 years. Originally a member of the ECEI (Engineering Credentials Evaluation International) team, she joined the Accreditation Department in late 2006 when ABET decided to undertake accreditation activities for programs outside the U.S. In just over 13 years, Hersh has seen ABET’s international market grow to accredit programs in 41 countries around the world.

Hersh holds a master’s degree in management from New York University.

Daniela Iacona is the Director for International Engagement and Governance at ABET, a non-profit, non-governmental organization that accredits college and university-level programs in the disciplines of applied & natural sciences, computing, engineering, and engineering technology worldwide. Ms. Iacona has supported ABET’s mission for over fifteen years and has played a key role in the development and implementation of its global operations plan. Ms. Iacona currently oversees all of ABET’s international initiatives, including its engagement in mutual recognition agreements, memoranda of understanding, and global outreach and collaboration activities.

In her dual role, Ms. Iacona is also responsible for managing all operational activities related to the governance of ABET. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading all Board of Directors, Board of Delegates, four Area Delegations and affiliated Council and Committees operational functions.

Ms. Iacona earned her Master of Global Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management and baccalaureate in International Studies from Old Dominion University. She has also earned ASAE’s Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation.

As chief accreditation officer and chief information officer since 2011, Joe Sussman leads ABET’s global accreditation operations, collaborating with the organization’s volunteer leadership in both tactical execution and strategic development of ABET’s accreditation practice. Previously, he spent 26 years as an engineering leader and senior business executive at Bayer AG, leading many of the company’s quality, manufacturing, and IT efforts. After retiring from Bayer he became an industry specialist at Deloitte Consulting, where he worked with many global clients. Before joining the ABET staff, he served for 24 years in nearly every volunteer capacity, including as program evaluator for mechanical engineering programs, chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission, representative director from ASME on the ABET Board of Directors, and president (2008–2009). He was inducted as an ABET fellow in 2002 after having played a pivotal role in implementing the ground-breaking Engineering Criteria 2000. In 2011 he was elected an ASME fellow for his contributions to quality in engineering education, and in 2015 he received the Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the technical disciplines through his work in accreditation. He earned his baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

Lawrence G. Jones’ 35+ years of ABET service includes: 2015-16 President, Accreditation Council Chair and Computing Accreditation Commission Chair. Lately, he has led projects to accredit associate programs in cybersecurity and bachelor degree programs in data science and helped investigate piloting ABET recognition of certificates.

Jones' U.S. Air Force career includes Chair of Computer Science at the USAF Academy. He retired from Carnegie-Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute as Distinguished Principal Researcher.

His B.S and M.S. in Industrial Engineering are from the University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. in Computer Science is from Vanderbilt. He is a Fellow of ABET and CSAB and recipient of ABET’s Grinter Award for Distinguished Service.

Susan O. Schall is Founder of SOS Consulting. She has 35 years of experience with manufacturing, non-profit and higher education clients using engineering, statistical and process improvement methods. Schall also held engineering and leadership roles at RR Donnelley, GE Lighting, DuPont and Kodak. Schall is a Fellow of ABET and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). She has been on the ABET Board and Engineering Accreditation Commission. As the first ABET Adjunct Training Director, she transformed PEV training.

Schall's B.S. in Mathematics is from SUNY Fredonia, and B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. She is an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence and Certified Prosci Change Practitioner.

Patsy Brackin is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she also serves as Director of Engineering Design. Her B.S. and M.S. are from the University of Tennessee and her Ph.D. is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has significant industry experience and is a licensed professional engineer as well as a Fellow of ASME and ABET. Brackin has been involved in several areas of ABET accreditation, including her position as her departmental ABET coordinator and member of ASME’s Committee on Engineering Accreditation. She has also served as a Program Evaluator, Team Chair and a member of the EAC Executive Committee, where she also served as chair of the Criteria Committee.

Philip "Phil" Schenewerk has served as an ABET volunteer since 1989 and is currently a member of the EAC Executive Committee. He is a retired geological and petroleum engineer with a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of New Orleans, an M.S. in Geological Engineering and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, both from the University of Oklahoma at Norman. He is a Distinguished Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers and a licensed Professional Engineer and Professional Geologist.

Saadeddine Shehab is currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on understanding students’ collaborative problem solving interactions and the role of the teacher in facilitating these interactions in contexts that feature the teaching and learning of STEM disciplines through design. At SCD, Shehab conducts design-based research to inform the design and implementation of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development that facilitate the teaching and learning of HCD in formal and informal learning environments. Shehab has been collaborating with design strategists, undergraduate and graduate students, and instructors of all backgrounds and multiple units on campus to analyze and explore issues associated with the teaching and learning of HCD in different contexts, co-design instructional tools that facilitate the teaching and learning of HCD in these contexts and collect data and conduct appropriate analyses to evaluate and reflect on the efficacy of these tools and inform future iterations. This research work has been accepted and presented at different education conferences such as the American Education Research Association (AERA), the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE).

Taylor Tucker is an engineering education Fellow at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She currently co-leads a collaborative human-centered engineering design integration project in partnership with the Grainger College of Engineering. She earned her undergraduate degree in engineering mechanics (BSEM) and master’s degree in curriculum and instruction (MSCI, Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program) from Illinois.

Tucker's research primarily focuses on the promotion and development of collaboration skills and cognitive engagement in undergraduate engineering tasks. She has collaborated in designing and evaluating the implementation of ill-structured tasks in introductory engineering courses, with findings presented at conferences such as the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Education Research Association (AERA), and the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). As part of her work at SCD, she also developed and deployed a team-based, weeklong human-centered design summer camp for high school students that guides campers in completing an introductory, hands-on design task. Her stake in the future of engineering education has been shaped by two underlying values: 1) ill-structured problem solving in design tasks that are both authentic to industry and able to address novel societal challenges and 2) relevant hands-on learning.

Alex Pagano is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois as well as an SCD Scholar with the Siebel Center for Design. He earned his undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona and master’s degree in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois. Pagano's research focus is on engineering design education, specifically exploring the development of engineering requirements. He is currently working on a project which uses natural language processing methods to explore how students reach a shared understanding of a design problem.

In his role with SCD, Pagano works in curriculum and program design and development. He has worked with the Grainger College of Engineering to create Human Centered Engineering Design learning experiences in the Mechanical Science and Engineering, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering programs, among others. Pagano's work in education is motivated by the need to build stronger connections between theoretical engineering and the lived experiences of people who are impacted by engineered systems. Beyond the classroom, Pagano has also worked in adaptive materials and structures where he designed a robot which uses origami-inspired folding mechanisms made from sheets of paper to create crawling worm-like locomotion.

Jennifer “Jenny” Amos, Ph.D., joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering with affiliations in Educational Psychology, Healthcare Systems Engineering and Medicine. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of South Carolina. She is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Board of Director Member, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education and has won multiple awards and recognitions for her teaching and scholarship of teaching. Outside of BMES, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of-its-kind engineering-driven college of medicine. Amos is part of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions. Amos has served as an ABET PEV for BMES since 2012 and a commissioner for the Engineering Accreditation Commission at ABET from 2018 until 2021. She is 2011 IDEAL Scholar graduate and has been leading program assessment workshops since 2012.

James N. Warnock is a professor and the founding chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Before coming to Athens, Warnock served as the associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and a master’s in biochemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, before completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Warnock has conducted research in the areas of cell and gene biomanufacturing, bioreactor design, tissue engineering and cellular mechanobiology. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international acclaim for his work using problem-based learning to enable students to develop professional skills. He currently serves as the director for Engineering Workforce Development for the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT).

Warnock is an adjunct director of professional offerings for ABET. In this role, he facilitates the planning, production and execution of the organization’s professional development programming and directs activities related to educational offerings and workshop-facilitator training.

Dr. Michael Oudshoorn, Founding Dean of the School of Engineering at High Point University, graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia, with a B.S. in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992, also from the University of Adelaide. Between 1984 and 2003 he was a faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Adelaide and served as the Associate Dean (International) for the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Computer Sciences. In 2003, he relocated to the U.S. and served as a faculty member, department chair or dean at several universities before joining High Point University in July 2018. Oudshoorn’s primary research interests are in distributed systems and autonomic systems. Oudshoorn is a member of the ASEE, IEEE and a Senior Member of the ACM. He is also an active member of ABET. He is a commissioner on the Computing Accreditation Commission and currently serves as a member of the executive committee.

Since joining High Point University staff, Oudshoorn has worked with the computer science faculty to revise the curriculum with a goal to seek ABET accreditation in the future. He has designed the Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs and secured approval from SACS for the university to offer these new programs. The Engineering programs commenced in August 2019.

Jean R. S. Blair is the EECS Distinguished Professor for Innovation and a Professor of Computer Science at the United States Military Academy where she previously held positions as deputy to the Chief Academic Officer, director of the Computer Science Program and director of the Information Systems Engineering Program. She spent several sabbatical years at the University in Bergen, Norway, where she served as a visiting professor and senior research scientist. Before joining the USMA faculty in 1994, Blair spent eight years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a research scientist. Blair earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.S. degree from Allegheny College, double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial problems, with recent emphasis on graph algorithms and curricular design for emerging computing disciplines. She is author of numerous academic articles and has received research grants and awards from various agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Labs.

Blair serves as a commissioner and team chair for the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET and is a member of the CAC Executive Committee. She volunteers as an accreditation team member for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, has been active in local and regional leadership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), was on the Steering Committee for the Cyber Education Project, has been a member of the working groups that developed accreditation criteria for Data Science programs, was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Computing and Information, and was a guest editor for Discrete Mathematics. Blair is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). She is a member of the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines (Upsilon Pi Epsilon), the international honor society in social sciences (Pi Gamma Mu) and was an Alden Scholar at Allegheny College.

Rajendra K. Raj, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of data science, cybersecurity and distributed computing. He has been an ABET Program Evaluator and Team Chair for almost two decades. Raj currently is a member of the CAC Executive Committee, served as the 2021-22 CAC Chair and is a Fellow of CSAB and ABET. Previously, as co-chair of the Joint CAC/CSAB Criteria Committee, he led the effort to revise accreditation criteria for all computing programs and develop cybersecurity program criteria. Before RIT, Raj was a vice president in information technology at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he designed, developed and managed proprietary, private-cloud global-infrastructures to support a variety of financial applications. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Naguib Attia was responsible for setting up IBM academic relations strategy, creating next generation global technical training programs in collaboration with universities, research institutions, and manage the overall award programs budgets. Previously, Attia was the VP& CTO of IBM Middle East and Africa. With over 25 years of industrial, manufacturing, research and academic experience, Attia has contributed to shape the development of IBM’s intellectual capital, industry insights and overall solution portfolio for IBM. His specializations include Cloud, Business Analytics, Security and Supply Chain optimization.

Attia was the chair of Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) Technical group, a Senior member of  IEEE Computer Society, member of ChemIT and other industry organizations. Attia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Essex, England.

Dr. Louis "Lou" Gritzo is chief science officer and staff senior vice president for commercial property insurer FM Global, a leader in property loss prevention and business continuity. Gritzo is responsible for leading the strategic advancement of science and research at FM Global. He oversees a worldwide team of scientists with expertise in fire, explosions, natural hazards (windstorms, floods, freeze, hail and earthquakes), equipment risk and reliability, and cyber hazards. Prior to joining FM Global in 2006, Gritzo was manager of fire science and technology at Sandia National

He has served as chair of the board of directors of the Innovation Research Interchange (formerly the Industrial Research Institute), chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Division Executive Committee, and on the governing board of the Global Earthquake Model, on the ABET Industrial Advisory Committee, on the Research Foundation Board of Trustees and Research Advisory Committee for the National Fire Protection Association, and on advisory committees for several universities. In 2015, he was an invited panelist for two sessions at the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Management in Sendai, Japan. He is also a contributing author to Forbes.com. Gritzo has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, with a minor in applied mathematics, from Texas Tech University, USA.

Dr. Hy Tran is a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. His work at Sandia focuses on metrology; he also contributes to Sandia’s R&D environment and R&D strategy. He has volunteered with ABET as a program evaluation volunteer since 2011, and as a team chair for the ABET Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission since 2020. He is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Tran holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from MIT.

Richard Hope is the Chief Technical Officer, Americas, AECOM and ABET Industry Advisory Council Chair. AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management on projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector client.

Hope holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, UK.

Cindy Anderson (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting. Anderson specializes in innovative sustainability- and online-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government, and corporations. She has taught thousands of people through courses and workshops, around the world and online, in the fields of biology, sustainability, and biomimicry. She is honored to be a collaborative partner on the Engineering for One Planet initiative since its inception, co-author of the EOP Framework and new framework integration guides, and active EOP Network Member.

Anderson holds a M.S. from Oregon State University, a MEd from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia), a BSc in biology from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) and a graduate certificate in public health from the University of Montana.

Dustyn Roberts (she/her/hers) is a Practice Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a consultant through dustynrobots, LLC, and an ABET Program Evaluator. She is passionate about engineering education, evidence-based teaching, and creating opportunities for student success in and out of the classroom. Roberts teaches classes that range from first-year courses in engineering graphics and digital fabrication to graduate courses focused on sustainable design. She received her B.S. in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2003), her M.S. in Biomechanics & Movement Science (2004) from the University of Delaware and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2014) from New York University. She rides her *very cool* electric cargo bike to work, usually with her 9 year old on the back.

Laura Grossenbacher is Director of Undergraduate Program Review and Director of the Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and has been teaching courses in engineering communication and ethics for over 20 years. Since 2012, she has developed ethics cases to use with a variety of different constituents, including engineers working for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, American Transmission Company, Madison Gas and Electric, WE Energies, Realtime Utility, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and the American Water Resources Administration; she has also taught ethics workshops for the Wisconsin Structural Engineering Code Refresher Annual Conference, the Wisconsin Concrete Pavement Association and the Wisconsin Society for Landscape Architects, among others.

Grossenbacher's ethics workshops are designed to engage engineers in discussing and applying codes of ethics, moral theory and behavioral science to practical cases in different engineering disciplines. She has taught applied engineering ethics to over 4,500 engineers across the state of Wisconsin. Beyond her work with practicing engineers, she teaches online ethics courses for graduate students as well as an undergraduate ethics course designed for Geological Engineering students. She is a member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), the current co-chair of the Online Ethics Center Community of Practice in Teaching Engineering Ethics.

Dr. Sarah Zappe is an educational psychologist specializing in engineering and entrepreneurship education. She holds the position of Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning and the Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. Zappe formerly held the position as deputy editor for the Journal of Engineering Education and is past Division Chair for the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division of ASEE. She serves on advisory boards for multiple NSF-funded projects and is on several task forces with ASEE. Her research interests include the integration of engineering and the arts, creativity, failure in student entrepreneurial teams and faculty development.

Dr. Karen High has been active in faculty development for over 32 years. She currently is a professor in the Engineering Science and Education Department (ESED) at Clemson University, which develops future faculty through its Ph.D. and certificate programs. Prior to this, High was a professor in chemical engineering for 24 years at Oklahoma State University pursuing technical and educational research. She still conducts research on STEM Faculty Development (karenhighed.org) and is a co-editor of the recently published handbook on STEM Faculty Development. High also erved as an ABET PEV for Chemical and General Engineering Programs. She is also engaged with the M360 Mentoring Initiative.

Fatima Alleyne, Ph.D., is a professionally trained engineer and transformational leader who serves as the director of Community Engagement and Inclusive Practices in the College of Engineering (CoE) at the University of California, Berkeley. She brings her passion and love for STEM and education into her work to develop programs that promote equity, foster a positive, inclusive culture and increase access and opportunities to those who have historically been underrepresented in STEM.

As director, Alleyne develops, leads, executes and evaluates professional trainings and workshops for faculty to increase their knowledge and awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). A core component of her work, Alleyne engages diverse members of the campus community on the topic of DEI and, particularly faculty, on how to integrate these principles into research, teaching, service, faculty recruitment and retention and holistic graduate admissions. Such programs include the Faculty Engagement Fund, Inclusive Excellence Orientation for Faculty, Inclusive Excellence Library Collection, and Empowering Engineers for Positive Change (EMPOWER) Certificate Program, which have made a significant impact in the College and beyond.

Alleyne also led a strategic planning process to guide programs and priorities to advance DEI in the College. The diversity plan she authored led to CoE’s recognition with the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Bronze Exemplar Award, the highest honor bestowed upon an institution. Her work has been lauded by UC Berkeley’s chancellor with recognition as a Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award recipient as well as an Equity Champion Award recipient by Advising and Student Services in 2022.

Prior to this role, Alleyne served as the director of CoE faculty engagement, consultant for the Center for Restorative Solutions, research general engineer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and education and outreach coordinator at an NSF-funded research center and research specialist, both at the University of California, Berkeley. Her commitment and passion for STEM education has led to her service on a range of committees on campus and in her community, including the UC-wide Next Opportunity at Work (NOW) Conference, development of STEM programs in K-12 schools, and service as an elected official on the Contra Costa County Board of Education.

Alleyne earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in chemistry from the City University of New York, Hunter College. She also holds a Certificate in Project Management from UC Extension and is in pursuit of a Strategic Management Certificate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Certificate in Higher Education and Student Affairs from UC Berkeley Extension.

Ignatios Vakalis was born on the island of Lesvos, Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Physics, from the Univ. of Patras, a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Math from Western Michigan University. From 1992-2006, Vakalis served as professor of math and computer science at Capital University - Ohio. He served as chair of three international conferences in the area of: “Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics.” Vakalis has also served as chair of the Department of Computer Science- Software Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2006-2017) in addition to his duties as a professor of the department (2006-2021). He has received numerous awards including: Provost’s Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy (2014) and ABET's Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion (2018).

Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is the University of California Davis' inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), which houses Academic Diversity, the Office of Campus Community Relations, four centers, and Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEI within the medical school, nursing school and health center). She also serves on the Chief Diversity Officers Council for the University of California, and has several programs and boards within her portfolio including HSI initiatives, the Police Accountability Board, Diversity and Inclusion Education and strategic planning, four centers and more.

Tull formerly served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development and later, Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at UMBC. She had a detail within the University System of Maryland’s headquarters (for 12 institutions), serving as the Director for Pipeline Professional Development Programs, and she has been either Co-PI or PI on National Science Foundation grants within the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), ADVANCE and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs. At UC Davis, she is PI of the PROMISE Engineering Institute, a collaboration between UC Davis and UMBC, with connections to engineering schools within the UC, and engineering schools in Maryland (UM College Park, Morgan State and Johns Hopkins) to form an engineering “East-West” collaboration. Her degrees in electrical engineering and speech science are from Howard University and Northwestern University. She was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, and participates in faculty activities as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, and a faculty affiliate in the Interdepartmental Program on Human Rights Studies.

An international speaker on global diversity in STEM, Tull was a Global Engineering Deans Council/Airbus Diversity Award Finalist and has received the ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development Global Mentoring Award. She has been involved with Puerto Rico’s ADVANCE Hispanic Women in STEM, the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, UNESCO, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) community, and her research interests in Humanitarian Engineering continue through sharing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is an author of a chapter of Rising to the Top and was part of the consensus committees for the National Academies’ “Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM,” and “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM."

Dr. Yvette E. Pearson is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her university-based and consulting efforts have led to over $40M in funding to support the success of students from minoritized and marginalized identities. A Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), her work has led to changes in policies and practices to advance equity and inclusion in global organizations.

Pearson’s awards and honors include ASCE’s Professional Practice Ethics & Leadership Award, ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion, the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator Award and ASCE’s President’s Medal. She is a registered Professional Engineer and Commissioner on ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission. Her podcast, Engineering Change, has audiences in over 80 countries.

Richard Olawoyin, associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Oakland University (OU) and U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He is a professional engineer (P.E.) with multidisciplinary research interests in stochastic system optimization and functional system safety analysis. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering from Penn. State University. He has served as the faculty adviser for NSBE at OU since 2014. He is the Chair of the ABET Inclusion Diversity and Equity Advisory (IDEA) Council. He has received multiple awards including the ASSP Charles V. Culbertson Outstanding Award in 2019 and 2022, and the 2023 Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and research.

Cindy Cooper leads The Lemelson Foundation’s Engineering for One Planet initiative, an effort to equip tomorrow’s engineers with the skills, knowledge and understanding to protect and improve our planet and our lives. For more than 20 years, Cooper has fostered social and environmental impact through innovation, working across academic, philanthropic, business and entrepreneurship fields. She co-founded and led award-winning organizations and programs in higher education and international development, including the world’s first website for fair trade Spanish lessons through videoconferencing. A Brazilian American, she holds a Global MBA with distinction from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Psychology/Spanish BA summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College.

Dr. Ramiro Jordan is a scientist, innovator, educator and entrepreneur. He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico. Currently, he is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Global Initiatives. His research activities include sustainability, Peace Engineering, smart grids, cognitive radio, multidimensional signal processing, and software development. He is the founder of the Ibero-American Consortium for Science and Technology Education (ISTEC), December 1990.He was the president of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Nov. 2018-2020. He is a founding member of the Peace Engineering Consortium, outcome of the first global conference on Peace Engineering, Nov. 2018, Albuquerque, NM.

Mike McMeekin is one of the founders of Engineering Change Lab-USA (ECL), a non-profit focused on the future of engineering and fostering change in engineering that will increase its contributions in support of a more resilient society. He became ECL’s first President/Executive Director in 2019. McMeekin served as President of Lamp Rynearson, an engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1997-2017. Following his tenure as President, he served as Chairman of the Board and Senior Advisor from 2017-2021. He has over 45 years of engineering experience and has played a leadership role in numerous signature projects in the Omaha area.

McMeekin is a graduate of the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Senior Executives Institute, an advanced management, leadership and public policy training program for current and emerging leaders of engineering and architectural firms.

William Wepfer served as the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair and Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech from 2008 to 2018. Wepfer’s research covered the areas of thermal systems, heat transfer and thermodynamics. Wepfer is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ABET and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

He was a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET for 12 years and served as Chair of the EAC during the 2014-15 accreditation cycle. Wepfer served on the Board of Governors of ASME (2016-19) and represents ASME on the ABET Board of Delegates. He has served departmental advisory boards at Pennsylvania State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University. After 38 years of service, Wepfer retired from Georgia Tech on April 1, 2018, and holds the title of Professor Emeritus. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Lynne.

Duyen Nguyen is the co-chair of Engineers Without Borders USA's (EWB-USA) Council of Regional Presidents where she manages a network of regional representatives, state representatives and chapter presidents. She has extensive international and domestic community engineering project/impact experience.

Nguyen has been with EWB-USA since 2010 when she joined as Chapter President of the Louisiana State University Student Chapter. Since then, she has served in many leadership roles and partnered with communities in The Gambia, Honduras, Cameroon and Guatemala. She also serves as the Chapter President of the Los Angeles Professional Chapter and Project Lead for a program in Guatemala that supplies a community of over 1000 people with potable water.

Rebecca Popeck is a licensed Land Surveyor at Rosemont based SPACECO, Inc., a civil engineering, land surveying and consulting firm. Popeck studied Land Survey Engineering and Civil Engineering at Purdue University’s West Lafayette Campus earning bachelor’s degrees in both disciplines. She has been a licensed Illinois Land Surveyor since 2005. Popeck has spent almost 20 years performing surveys and providing surveying services in the greater Chicagoland area. Her specialties include development work in residential, commercial and industrial sectors with an increased focus on projects within the limits of the City of Chicago. She joined ABET in 2006 as a Program Evaluator supporting her member society of National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). NSPS is a member of three accreditation commissions including ANSAC, EAC and ETAC. She has had the pleasure of serving as a PEV for both ETAC and ANSAC visits early in her ABET career. In 2014, Popeck became a commissioner/team chair for the Applied and Natural Science Commission. In 2017, she further progressed through the ranks to join ANSAC’s executive committee. During the 2019-2020 accreditation cycle, Popeck was a team chair for her first international visit to Krishnan Kovil, Tamil Nadu, India.

Dr. Michael Oudshoorn, Founding Dean of the School of Engineering at High Point University, graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia, with a B.S. in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992, also from the University of Adelaide. Between 1984 and 2003 he was a faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Adelaide and served as the Associate Dean (International) for the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Computer Sciences. In 2003, he relocated to the U.S. and served as a faculty member, department chair or dean at several universities before joining High Point University in July 2018. Oudshoorn’s primary research interests are in distributed systems and autonomic systems. Oudshoorn is a member of the ASEE, IEEE and a Senior Member of the ACM. He is also an active member of ABET. He is a commissioner on the Computing Accreditation Commission and currently serves as a member of the executive committee.

Since joining High Point University staff, Oudshoorn has worked with the computer science faculty to revise the curriculum with a goal to seek ABET accreditation in the future. He has designed the Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs and secured approval from SACS for the university to offer these new programs. The Engineering programs commenced in August 2019.

Carol Schulte is retired from McNeese State University, where she taught courses in process plant technology, a chemical engineering technology program. She earned her BSChE degree at Wayne State University in Detroit. Schulte also has an M.S. in chemistry and an M.E.M. from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Also at Lamar, she received her DE in industrial engineering. She has worked in industry for companies such as DuPont, PPG and Condea Vista. Schulte is currently a member of the AIChE Education and Accreditation Committee and leads the Engineering Technology Education Subcommittee. She is an ETAC evaluator for AIChE and IISE and has been an ETAC Commissioner representing AIChE. She is currently a member of the ETAC Executive Committee. She has served as chair of the ETAC Quality Committee and the ETAC Training Committee. She now serves as the ETAC Chair.

Chris Taylor is Professor and Vice Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1998. Taylor is a member of the CSAB board and the CSAB liaison to the IEEE CEAA. He has served as a EAC evaluator for CSAB and IEEE and has been an EAC Commissioner. He served as chair of the EAC Training Committee and has served on the EAC Executive Committee.

Barbara Price received her B.S. degree in mathematics from Grove City College and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Virginia Tech. Her academic career began at New River Community College before accepting positions at other schools including: Radford University, Mississippi State University, Lynchburg College, Winthrop University and Georgia Southern University. At Georgia Southern, Price served as Department Chair in the College of Business Administration, Founding Director of the School of Information Technology, Professor of Quantitative Analysis and Interim Associate Vice President for Continuing Education. She served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She was recognized as a Fellow of CSAB and a Fellow of ABET in 2013.

Price’s ABET service includes her current role as Secretary of the ABET Board of Directors, past member of the Computing Area Delegation and the Board of Delegates, Lead/Support Facilitator for PEVC Training, member of the Accreditation Council Training Committee and CAC Chair for the 2012-2013 cycle.

Stephen Phillips serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Phillips received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. From 1988 to 2002, he served on the faculty of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. In 2002, he joined the faculty of Arizona State University as Professor of Electrical Engineering. Phillips was appointed electrical engineering department chair in 2005 and Director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering in 2009. He has served as an ABET Program Evaluator and as a member of the board of directors of ABET where he is currently director of the Engineering Area Delegation. Phillips is a professional engineer registered in the state of Ohio. He has served as IEEE Vice President for Educational Activities. His research includes applications of systems and control, microfabrication on novel substrates and non-traditional delivery and assessment of accredited engineering degree programs.

As chief accreditation officer and chief information officer since 2011, Joe Sussman leads ABET’s global accreditation operations, collaborating with the organization’s volunteer leadership in both tactical execution and strategic development of ABET’s accreditation practice. Previously, he spent 26 years as an engineering leader and senior business executive at Bayer AG, leading many of the company’s quality, manufacturing, and IT efforts. After retiring from Bayer he became an industry specialist at Deloitte Consulting, where he worked with many global clients. Before joining the ABET staff, he served for 24 years in nearly every volunteer capacity, including as program evaluator for mechanical engineering programs, chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission, representative director from ASME on the ABET Board of Directors, and president (2008–2009). He was inducted as an ABET fellow in 2002 after having played a pivotal role in implementing the ground-breaking Engineering Criteria 2000. In 2011 he was elected an ASME fellow for his contributions to quality in engineering education, and in 2015 he received the Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the technical disciplines through his work in accreditation. He earned his baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

Jane Emmet has been responsible for the management and administration of ABET’s accreditation policies and procedures and the overall operations of ABET’s accreditation processes since November, 2015. She joined ABET in January of 2014 as the Training Manager responsible for the training of the over 2,000 volunteer professionals who serve ABET. Her background, prior to joining ABET, includes directing and managing training and leadership development programs at professional service organizations, energy companies and developing education programs for history museums. Jane holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in History/Education and a master’s degree in Museum Education from The George Washington University. She also holds a Graduate Certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Instructional Systems Design.

Dr. Sharon B. DeVivo has been with Vaughn College since 1996 and was named first woman president in 2014. She received her bachelor’s degree in communications from the State University of New York at Albany, a master’s in public communications from Fordham University and a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2020, DeVivo was appointed to serve as the chair of the Youth Access to American Aviation Jobs Task Force by the US Secretary of Transportation. She also serves on the board for Civil Air Patrol, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, The Wings Club Foundation, Cradle of Aviation Museum, the Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America, Queens Advisory Board for Scouting BSA, International Aviation Women’s Association Advisory Board, JFK International Airport Chamber of Commerce. DeVivo also serves as a liaison to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Women in Engineering Committee in addition to the Institute’s Pre-University Education Coordination Committee and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

Dr. Dalma Novak is VP of Engineering at Octane Wireless, a technology company located in Maryland developing advanced RF-over-fiber and antenna products. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and has over 30 years of experience working in the fields of optical and wireless telecommunications. She has published more than 300 papers in these technical areas, including seven book chapters. Previously she held positions at The University of Melbourne, Dorsal Networks and Corvis Corporation. Novak received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and in 2018 received the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award. She is the current Chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and was a member of the IEEE Board of Directors from 2021 to 2022.

Ashley Huderson is a teacher, entrepreneur, researcher and STEM policy expert. She has published over 13 peer reviewed articles, including two book chapters on Urban STEM education and counter spaces for minority women in STEM and has been the recipient of several awards and honors.

Huderson previously served as the Director of Engineering Education and Outreach at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and was an American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and Technology Policy (AAAS S&T) Fellow at the National Science Foundation. Currently, Dr. Huderson works in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Education as a STEM and CS Equity Policy Fellow. She is working to develop and implement a STEM and CS strategy that advances the Secretary’s vision for education in America and supports the strategic goals and priorities of the department.

Huderson is a native of New Orleans, LA, and completed her undergraduate training at Spelman College (2006), a certificate in Health Policy (2012) and doctoral work at Meharry Medical College (2013).

Dr. Lisa M. Black, is Director, Cultural Belonging & Social Ethos for the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2016, Black joined the staff of ASCE the nation’s oldest engineering society, representing more than 150,000 members. In her role as Director of Cultural Belonging & Social Ethos, she is responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating policies, programs, activities, and products aimed at advancing inclusion of people representing underrepresented identities in the profession. Through her work with ASCE’s board level committee, Members of Society Advancing an Inclusive Culture (MOSAIC), she provides leadership in all matters of diversity, equity and inclusion within the civil engineering community and implements policies and programs designed to advance awareness and recognition of the civil engineering profession, with a special emphasis on promoting civil engineering as an inclusive discipline. 

Prior to joining ASCE, Black acquired nearly 20 years of experience in social work, policy, and leading strategic planning initiatives focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. These experiences encompassed administrative leadership, research, community engagement and project management that span pre-kindergarten through career workforce. In the preK-12 public education sector, she served as Special Assistant to the Superintendent for Race and Equity in Madison Wisconsin and held education leadership licenses in Wisconsin and Virginia.  

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from North Carolina State University and both graduate degrees, a Master of Science in Social Work and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Black enjoys spending time with her husband, brother Renny, their four adult children and chocolate lab, Odie.   

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

Paige Zaleppa is the Director of Operations at SecurEd Inc. where she coordinates the software development and content curation processes for two cybersecurity education products. She has worked in cybersecurity education for 4 years as a software developer and product manager. Zaleppa is passionate about cyber education and is an adjunct professor at Towson University. She received her Bachelor’s in Information Systems and Master’s in Computer Science from Towson University.

Blair Thomas is a Quality Advocate at SecurEd Inc. where she helps curate curriculum and ensure the curriculum is relevant. She is currently an undergraduate student at Towson University majoring in Information Systems with a track in interface design, projected to graduate in Spring of 2023. Thomas is passionate about technology and takes a special interest in UX design and project management. In her free time, Thomas enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, listening to music and baking.

Sidd Kaza is the Associate Provost for Research at Towson University. His interests lie in cybersecurity, data mining and application development. He is a principal investigator on several cybersecurity projects, including the University's Cyber4All. He was on the ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP Joint Global Task Force on Cybersecurity Education that produced the first four-year cybersecurity curricular guidelines. Kaza is Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of SecurEd, a not-for-profit startup organization focused on helping academic institutions build a cyber-ready workforce. One of SecurEd’s premier products is CLARK, which provides free cybersecurity curricula and resources across K-12.

Dr. Blair Taylor is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Innovation Cybersecurity (Cyber4All) at Towson University. She is a national expert in cybersecurity education and worked with NSA’s College of Cyber as a Subject Matter Expert on long-term strategies to increase the pipeline of qualified students and build the nations’ cyber workforce. Her projects include Security Injections @ Towson, which provides security modules for integrating security across the curriculum and is a national model for teaching secure coding to introductory programming students; CLARK, a library of over 1000 free cybersecurity curriculum resources, and SPLASH, which offers Secure Programming Logic for college credit to high school girls.

Mark Archambault received his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from Florida Tech in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He then joined the Air Force Research Laboratory as a research scientist, and earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1999. In 2004, he joined the faculty of the aerospace engineering program at Florida Tech where he now holds the rank of Associate Professor. Archambault was appointed Assistant Dean for Academics for the College of Engineering and Science in 2017. In 2013, Archambault became an ABET PEV for aerospace engineering programs, an EAC commissioner and team chair in 2017 and now serves on the EAC ExCom. His professional memberships include AIAA, ASEE and ILASS.

Grant Crawford, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASEE, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. He has served on the NCEES FE exam committee since 2005 and is an active member of the engineering education community, having served on the ASEE Board of Directors three times. He has been involved in and led ABET accreditation and assessment at the program level for over 18 years. He is an EAC PEV and former ETAC Commissioner for ABET.

David L. Whitman, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASEE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming. He is a past president of NCEES, an emeritus member of the Wyoming State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors, and the current ABET Treasurer on the Board of Directors. He has been involved with various NCEES committees and has been part of the FE exam preparation since 2001.

Jennifer “Jenny” Amos, Ph.D., joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering with affiliations in Educational Psychology, Healthcare Systems Engineering and Medicine. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of South Carolina. She is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Board of Director Member, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education and has won multiple awards and recognitions for her teaching and scholarship of teaching. Outside of BMES, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of-its-kind engineering-driven college of medicine. Amos is part of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions. Amos has served as an ABET PEV for BMES since 2012 and a commissioner for the Engineering Accreditation Commission at ABET from 2018 until 2021. She is 2011 IDEAL Scholar graduate and has been leading program assessment workshops since 2012.

John K. Estell, Ph.D., is the Reichelderfer Endowed Chair and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University. He is an ABET Fellow, a 10-year ABET Commissioner, and an Accreditation Council Training Committee member; he previously was an CAC Executive Committee Member, a CAC Editor, and CAC Training Committee Co-Chair. He is also an ASEE Fellow and an ASEE Vice President. Estell has received multiple ASEE awards for both his scholarship on engineering education pedagogy and his service to the Society. His research includes streamlining program outcomes assessment processes, including developing the well-known FCAR methodology and applying entrepreneurial mindset approaches to engineering design pedagogy.

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Director of Professional Offerings at ABET. She also serves as Assistant Dean Emerita for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and is a faculty member and ABET Coordinator in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Over the past 32 years, Briedis has served ABET as a program evaluator for AIChE, a team chair and member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), the first chair of the EAC Training and Materials Development Committee and an Executive Committee member of the EAC. She was a program evaluator on one of the very first “EC2000” visits and subsequently chaired several new criteria visits. Briedis has been an AIChE Representative Director on the ABET Board of Directors and has been involved in the design teams for the new program evaluator and train-the-trainers training materials. She is a lead facilitator for the program evaluator training sessions. She also consults in the area of accreditation and assessment and evaluation and serves on the Board of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007, a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011 and a Fellow of ASEE in 2015. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

Dr. Stan Thomas, Ph.D. has nearly four decades of experience in computing and computing education. He currently serves as the Adjunct Director of Training for ABET. Thomas has been a faculty member of Wake Forest University since 1983, serving as department chair from 2004 to 2011, with visiting appointments at the United States Air Force Academy and Lahore University of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan. His research interests are data management, data analysis and computer science education. Thomas earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in computer science from Vanderbilt University. He went on to spend four summers as research faculty at the NASA Kennedy Space Center and has worked as an expert witness and professional consultant with several organizations. Thomas has been an ABET program evaluator since 1996 and served as the chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission in 2014-15. He is also a Senior member of IEEE-CS and was identified as a CSAB Fellow in 2013 and an ABET Fellow in 2018.

Lizette Chevalier is currently serving as the Dean of the Dr. Robert A. Savoie College of Engineering at the University of New Orleans. Her B.S. degree is from Wayne State University and her M.S./Ph.D. degrees are from Michigan State University. She is a licensed professional engineer, a Fellow of ASCE and a Diplomat of Water Resources Engineering. She has held several academic administrative positions at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, all of which involved accreditation of programs as well as the institution. She has served as an ABET Program Evaluator, Team Chair, a member of the Executive Committee of the EAC and Chair of the EAC Continuous Improvement Committee.

Venancio “Venny” L. Fuentes, P.E. is currently the department chairperson for the Engineering Technologies/Engineering Science department at County College of Morris, a two-year college. His experience in ABET includes being on both sides of a visit, as a department chair and serving in the roles of program evaluator (PEV), team chair and statement editor. He has been an IEEE PEV since 2002. He served on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation Activities (CETAA) prior to joining the ETAC as a commissioner. He is presently serving on the ETAC Executive Committee and chairs the ETAC Documents Committee. Prior to his teaching career, he was a systems engineer working on navigation systems for air, sea and space applications.

Dr. Randal Keller has been a Murray State faculty member in the department of Occupational Safety and Health since 1996 and currently is the Jesse D. Jones Endowed Professor of the College of Science. He earned his Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in toxicology from Utah State University and his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Eisenhower College. He did his post-doctoral training at the National Center for Toxicological Research in the Division of Biochemical Toxicology. Keller began his academic career in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he directed the Occupational and Environmental Health Program. He holds board certifications in the areas of toxicology, industrial hygiene and safety.

Keller has served on and led numerous national peer-review committees including those for the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. He served two terms on the Committee on Chemical Demilitarization for the Board on Army Science and Technology in the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. He is currently Vice-Chair for the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission of ABET. Keller received the 2019 Sandra Flynn Professor of the Year Award and has authored dozens of publications and presentations throughout his career. Keller created and coached the first Murray State Triathlon Club. In his spare time, he is an avid bicyclist and enjoys auditing German language courses.

Rajendra K. Raj, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of data science, cybersecurity and distributed computing. He has been an ABET Program Evaluator and Team Chair for almost two decades. Raj currently is a member of the CAC Executive Committee, served as the 2021-22 CAC Chair and is a Fellow of CSAB and ABET. Previously, as co-chair of the Joint CAC/CSAB Criteria Committee, he led the effort to revise accreditation criteria for all computing programs and develop cybersecurity program criteria. Before RIT, Raj was a vice president in information technology at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he designed, developed and managed proprietary, private-cloud global-infrastructures to support a variety of financial applications. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

James N. Warnock is a professor and the founding chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Before coming to Athens, Warnock served as the associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and a master’s in biochemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, before completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Warnock has conducted research in the areas of cell and gene biomanufacturing, bioreactor design, tissue engineering and cellular mechanobiology. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international acclaim for his work using problem-based learning to enable students to develop professional skills. He currently serves as the director for Engineering Workforce Development for the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT).

Warnock is an adjunct director of professional offerings for ABET. In this role, he facilitates the planning, production and execution of the organization’s professional development programming and directs activities related to educational offerings and workshop-facilitator training.

Brock Craft is an Associate Teaching Professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington and Director of the B.S. in HCDE. His areas of expertise include educational technology, data visualization and embedded systems.

Dr. Christina Viau Haden is a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Lehigh University. Her research involves the material property prediction of additively manufactured metals. Besides her research, a passion for teaching has lead her to co-develop of a new interdisciplinary course at Lehigh at the intersection of art and engineering on the topic of Leonardo da Vinci's life works. Haden also leads her department's ABET accreditation process, enjoys being an ABET facilitator and serves as the chair of her department's undergraduate curriculum committee. Haden is also deeply committed to improving the retention rates of women in STEM. She runs a yearly three-day welcome event for incoming engineering freshwomen at Lehigh University, offers a mentoring program for women in her department and advises the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) local chapter, among others.

Jennifer McFerran Brock is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Academics at the University of Alaska Anchorage College of Engineering. In addition to leading her own department’s assessment efforts since 2012, she was chair of the UAA College of Engineering Assessment Committee from 2014-2018 and has been involved in numerous campus-wide assessment- and accreditation-related initiatives, most recently serving as a tri-chair of the UAA Institutional Self-Study Committee from 2016-18 in connection with the institution’s regional accreditation. She joined the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET in 2022.

Bill Lovegrove has a Ph.D. in engineering from Clemson University and is the head of the Engineering Department at Bob Jones University. He is also an instructor for the Summer Institute in Teaching Science, the in-house faculty development program at BJU. He has a long-standing interest in engineering education and is an ABET program evaluator.

Karen Tarnoff, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Assessment and International Programs for the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University. In this capacity, she coordinates the assessment of student learning outcomes across seven diverse departments (i.e., Accountancy; Economics and Finance; Management and Marketing; Computing; Military Science; and Engineering, Engineering Technology, Surveying; and Digital Media) and multiple accrediting bodies (i.e., SACS, AACSB, ABET, NASAD, CIDA). She has given numerous presentations on assurance of learning and assessment-related topics and, likewise, has helped many schools develop, implement and refine their assessment systems. Tarnoff is a Global Lead Facilitator for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) having authored materials for its Assurance of Learning I and II Seminars and having served as a seminar facilitator since 2005. Tarnoff is pleased to be joining ABET to facilitate Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshops and create content for other offerings. Her primary areas of research include assessment of student learning, the skills gap, team-based work systems and shared mental models.

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Rogers has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

James N. Warnock is a professor and the founding chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Before coming to Athens, Warnock served as the associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and a master’s in biochemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, before completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Warnock has conducted research in the areas of cell and gene biomanufacturing, bioreactor design, tissue engineering and cellular mechanobiology. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international acclaim for his work using problem-based learning to enable students to develop professional skills. He currently serves as the director for Engineering Workforce Development for the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT).

Warnock is an adjunct director of professional offerings for ABET. In this role, he facilitates the planning, production and execution of the organization’s professional development programming and directs activities related to educational offerings and workshop-facilitator training.

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Director of Professional Offerings at ABET. She also serves as Assistant Dean Emerita for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and is a faculty member and ABET Coordinator in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Over the past 32 years, Briedis has served ABET as a program evaluator for AIChE, a team chair and member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), the first chair of the EAC Training and Materials Development Committee and an Executive Committee member of the EAC. She was a program evaluator on one of the very first “EC2000” visits and subsequently chaired several new criteria visits. Briedis has been an AIChE Representative Director on the ABET Board of Directors and has been involved in the design teams for the new program evaluator and train-the-trainers training materials. She is a lead facilitator for the program evaluator training sessions. She also consults in the area of accreditation and assessment and evaluation and serves on the Board of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007, a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011 and a Fellow of ASEE in 2015. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

Robyn Hall serves as ABET’s Director of Professional Programs. In her current capacity, she oversees ABET’s portfolio of assessment education. Prior to this, Hall served as the Assistant Vice President for Seminars and Digital Learning at AACSB International. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Eckerd College, MBA from the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa and, more recently, her Master Trainer certificate from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).

Lawrence G. Jones’ 35+ years of ABET service includes: 2015-16 President, Accreditation Council Chair and Computing Accreditation Commission Chair. Lately, he has led projects to accredit associate programs in cybersecurity and bachelor degree programs in data science and helped investigate piloting ABET recognition of certificates.

Jones' U.S. Air Force career includes Chair of Computer Science at the USAF Academy. He retired from Carnegie-Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute as Distinguished Principal Researcher.

His B.S and M.S. in Industrial Engineering are from the University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. in Computer Science is from Vanderbilt. He is a Fellow of ABET and CSAB and recipient of ABET’s Grinter Award for Distinguished Service.

Rajendra K. Raj, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of data science, cybersecurity and distributed computing. He has been an ABET Program Evaluator and Team Chair for almost two decades. Raj currently is a member of the CAC Executive Committee, served as the 2021-22 CAC Chair and is a Fellow of CSAB and ABET. Previously, as co-chair of the Joint CAC/CSAB Criteria Committee, he led the effort to revise accreditation criteria for all computing programs and develop cybersecurity program criteria. Before RIT, Raj was a vice president in information technology at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he designed, developed and managed proprietary, private-cloud global-infrastructures to support a variety of financial applications. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Susan O. Schall is Founder of SOS Consulting. She has 35 years of experience with manufacturing, non-profit and higher education clients using engineering, statistical and process improvement methods. Schall also held engineering and leadership roles at RR Donnelley, GE Lighting, DuPont and Kodak. Schall is a Fellow of ABET and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). She has been on the ABET Board and Engineering Accreditation Commission. As the first ABET Adjunct Training Director, she transformed PEV training.

Schall's B.S. in Mathematics is from SUNY Fredonia, and B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. She is an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence and Certified Prosci Change Practitioner.

Mo Hosni, Ph.D., is a professor and director of the University Engineering Alliance at Kansas State University (K-State). He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Mississippi State University. He joined the faculty at K-State in 1991, served as the director of a multidisciplinary research center from 1993 to 2001, and department head of mechanical and nuclear engineering from 2001 to 2008. Hosni served as the ASME vice president for education and a member of the Council on Standards and Certification of ASME. Hosni served as the ABET Executive Committee member, Chair of the Training Committee and is the Vice Chair of Operations. He is a Fellow of ABET, ASME and ASHRAE.

Lorraine Fleming is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Howard University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and her doctoral degree from University of California, Berkeley. Fleming has been involved in ABET accreditation since 1999 and has served as an ASCE Program Evaluator (PEV), and an EAC Team Chair Commissioner. She currently serves an EAC Editor-2. She is a licensed professional engineer and a Fellow of ASCE.

Lizette Chevalier is currently serving as the Dean of the Dr. Robert A. Savoie College of Engineering at the University of New Orleans. Her B.S. degree is from Wayne State University and her M.S./Ph.D. degrees are from Michigan State University. She is a licensed professional engineer, a Fellow of ASCE and a Diplomat of Water Resources Engineering. She has held several academic administrative positions at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, all of which involved accreditation of programs as well as the institution. She has served as an ABET Program Evaluator, Team Chair, a member of the Executive Committee of the EAC and Chair of the EAC Continuous Improvement Committee.

Patsy Brackin is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she also serves as Director of Engineering Design. Her B.S. and M.S. are from the University of Tennessee and her Ph.D. is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has significant industry experience and is a licensed professional engineer as well as a Fellow of ASME and ABET. Brackin has been involved in several areas of ABET accreditation, including her position as her departmental ABET coordinator and member of ASME’s Committee on Engineering Accreditation. She has also served as a Program Evaluator, Team Chair and a member of the EAC Executive Committee, where she also served as chair of the Criteria Committee.

Rajendra K. Raj, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of data science, cybersecurity and distributed computing. He has been an ABET Program Evaluator and Team Chair for almost two decades. Raj currently is a member of the CAC Executive Committee, served as the 2021-22 CAC Chair and is a Fellow of CSAB and ABET. Previously, as co-chair of the Joint CAC/CSAB Criteria Committee, he led the effort to revise accreditation criteria for all computing programs and develop cybersecurity program criteria. Before RIT, Raj was a vice president in information technology at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he designed, developed and managed proprietary, private-cloud global-infrastructures to support a variety of financial applications. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Jean R. S. Blair is the EECS Distinguished Professor for Innovation and a Professor of Computer Science at the United States Military Academy where she previously held positions as deputy to the Chief Academic Officer, director of the Computer Science Program and director of the Information Systems Engineering Program. She spent several sabbatical years at the University in Bergen, Norway, where she served as a visiting professor and senior research scientist. Before joining the USMA faculty in 1994, Blair spent eight years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a research scientist. Blair earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.S. degree from Allegheny College, double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial problems, with recent emphasis on graph algorithms and curricular design for emerging computing disciplines. She is author of numerous academic articles and has received research grants and awards from various agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Labs.

Blair serves as a commissioner and team chair for the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET and is a member of the CAC Executive Committee. She volunteers as an accreditation team member for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, has been active in local and regional leadership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), was on the Steering Committee for the Cyber Education Project, has been a member of the working groups that developed accreditation criteria for Data Science programs, was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Computing and Information, and was a guest editor for Discrete Mathematics. Blair is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). She is a member of the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines (Upsilon Pi Epsilon), the international honor society in social sciences (Pi Gamma Mu) and was an Alden Scholar at Allegheny College.

Scott Murray is currently a Staff Data Engineer for Procore Technologies (www.procore.com) and has worked in the data analytics/business intelligence area for over 20 years. Additionally, Murray is an adjunct instructor for Kennesaw State University, Maryville University and Reinhardt University. He also currently serves on the executive committee of the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission and is a current CSAB board member.

Carol Schulte is retired from McNeese State University, where she taught courses in process plant technology, a chemical engineering technology program. She earned her BSChE degree at Wayne State University in Detroit. Schulte also has an M.S. in chemistry and an M.E.M. from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Also at Lamar, she received her DE in industrial engineering. She has worked in industry for companies such as DuPont, PPG and Condea Vista. Schulte is currently a member of the AIChE Education and Accreditation Committee and leads the Engineering Technology Education Subcommittee. She is an ETAC evaluator for AIChE and IISE and has been an ETAC Commissioner representing AIChE. She is currently a member of the ETAC Executive Committee. She has served as chair of the ETAC Quality Committee and the ETAC Training Committee. She now serves as the ETAC Chair.

Raju Dandu is the Chair-Elect of Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET and served on ABET Governance as a member of board of delegates. Dandu is an experienced American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Engineering Technology Program Evaluator (PEV), ETAC Commissioner and has performed several ABET accreditation visits in the U.S. and internationally. Dandu served as a member of the ASME Committee on Engineering Education, Board of Directors of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Board of Directors of Salina Area United Way. Dandu provided consulting services in product design, manufacturing, industrial automation, patent filing, grant writing, startup business development, product CE certification, reliability centered maintenance and training industry workforce. Currently, he works with a team of industry experts at Bulk Solids Innovation Center (BSIC), the only university-centered facility and staff in North America dedicated to improving technology and knowledge of powder and bulk solids handling of various industries including: food, chemicals, minerals, pharmaceuticals and plastics. From research, education, training, access to technology and lab scale sample to full-scale testing of dry bulk solids, this unique Center identifies and solves real-world industrial problems.

Dandu is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Director of Kansas State University BSIC. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, Diploma Engineer from Slovak Technical University, Czechoslovakia in Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering, and Diploma in Automobile Engineering from Andhra Polytechnic, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He also served as graduate program director Kansas State University Salina campus. Dandu is fluent in spoken and written English, Slovak, Czech and Telug and can communicate in Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Hindi.

April Cheung currently serves as the Chair-Elect of ETAC at ABET, previously chairing the ETAC Training Committee. Her experience in ABET also includes roles as: Program Evaluator, Team Chair and Editor. She served on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation Activities (CETAA) from 2010-2012 and 2016-present, where she chairs the CETAA Communications Committee. Cheung was a research and development manager at BraunAbility, where she managed and developed new products and technologies for wheelchair accessible vehicles. She was also an Electronics Engineering Manager for IMMI, where she managed and developed electronic active and passive safety products used in class 8 trucks, fire trucks and ambulances. She is currently an assistant professor of practice at Purdue University Polytechnic Institute at West Lafayette, Indiana.

Alice Greife, Ph.D., CIH, FAIH, a dual board-certified industrial hygienist and occupational toxicologist, received her master’s degree in industrial hygiene from the University of Central Missouri and her doctorate in occupational toxicology from the University of Cincinnati. Currently, she is Dean of the College of Health, Science and Technology at University of Central Missouri. She also teaches graduate courses in toxicology and epidemiology in the ABET-accredited master of science program in industrial hygiene. Greife serves as a member of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board for Occupational Surveillance and is a consultant to the World Health Organization. Greife is also a member of the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission of ABET and serves on the Executive Board. Prior to UCM, Greife served as director of the Division of Training and Education, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Randal Keller has been a Murray State faculty member in the department of Occupational Safety and Health since 1996 and currently is the Jesse D. Jones Endowed Professor of the College of Science. He earned his Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in toxicology from Utah State University and his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Eisenhower College. He did his post-doctoral training at the National Center for Toxicological Research in the Division of Biochemical Toxicology. Keller began his academic career in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he directed the Occupational and Environmental Health Program. He holds board certifications in the areas of toxicology, industrial hygiene and safety.

Keller has served on and led numerous national peer-review committees including those for the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. He served two terms on the Committee on Chemical Demilitarization for the Board on Army Science and Technology in the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council. He is currently Vice-Chair for the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission of ABET. Keller received the 2019 Sandra Flynn Professor of the Year Award and has authored dozens of publications and presentations throughout his career. Keller created and coached the first Murray State Triathlon Club. In his spare time, he is an avid bicyclist and enjoys auditing German language courses.

Dr. Niaz Latif is Professor and Dean, College of Technology and Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Latif has played several important leadership roles at PNW, most recently as the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He also served as the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies.

Latif is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and received the ASEE Frederick J. Berger Award for programmatic and individual excellence in engineering technology education. He was awarded PNW’s Outstanding Administrative Leader Award. He is the Executive Director of the Commercialization and Manufacturing Excellence Center (CMEC). Latif received several federal grants for workforce development, including grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Latif earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia.