Engineering Education Fall Graduate Seminar

Nadia Kellam (she/they) is associate professor of engineering within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a faculty in the Engineering Education Systems and Design (EESD) PhD program and currently advises three doctoral students. Kellam is an engineering education researcher and a mechanical engineer. She is also deputy editor of the Journal of Engineering Education and co-chair of the newly formed American Society of Engineering Education’s Committee on Scholarly Publications.

Xiaofeng Tang is an associate professor in the Institute of Education at Tsinghua University, where he also serves as the Associate Director for Division of Engineering Education Research. His scholarship focuses on understanding and facilitating engineering education reform, through which he seeks to educate engineers who can demonstrate leadership, responsibility, and innovation. Inspired by sociology, ethics, history, and educational research, he teaches and conducts interdisciplinary research in engineering ethics, international engineering education, and engineering cultures.
 

Jian Lin is a professor in the Institute of Education at Tsinghua University, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Center for Engineering Education. He also serves in numerous directing roles including: Director of Academic Committee, Director of National Talent-Introduction Base for the Interdisciplinary Innovation of Engineering Education, Director of the Division of Educational Policy and Management, and Division of Engineering Education. His research areas include higher education administration, higher engineering education, organizational strategy management, and payment and performance management.

Juan Lucena is Professor and Director of Humanitarian Engineering (HE) Undergraduate Programs at the Department of Engineering, Design & Society of the Colorado School of Mines. Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and two BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

The main driver for his teaching and research is to challenge students to ask, what is engineering for?

Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education to investigate deficit ideologies and their impact on minoritized communities. His work seeks to analyze and describe the assets, tensions, contradictions, and cultural collisions many Latino/a/x students experience in engineering through testimonios.

Jan Van Maele is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Technology at KU Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches and researches communication with a focus on intercultural learning in engineering education and international(izing) education. He is a member of the Leuven Engineering and Science Education Center (LESEC) and a guest professor at the School of International Studies at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He has widely collaborated in these fields with partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America in various contexts for the past fifteen years, often on projects co-funded by the European Commission. Previously, Jan worked for ten years as adviser to the President of Group T Engineering College (Leuven, Belgium) for strategy, internationalization and communication. (More info on https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanmaele/).

Dr. Julie P. Martin is the Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EET) at the University of Georgia. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Dr. Martin’s research agenda focuses on methodical activism in engineering education with a focus on asset-based approaches. She is a former program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has held faculty appointments at The Ohio State University, Clemson University, Virginia Tech, and University of Houston. She holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in the same field from Virginia Tech.

Stephanie G. Adams is an engineering education thought leader who has served as the fifth dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science since 2019. She is also a professor of systems engineering.
Adams is a pioneer in engineering education. In 2003 she received a NSF CAREER award to research effective teaming in the engineering classroom. In addition to teamwork and team effectiveness, her other areas of research expertise include broadening participation in STEM, faculty and graduate student development, global education, and quality control and management.

José Luis Torero is the Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He took this appointment after two years (2017-2019) as the John L. Bryan Chair in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering and Director of the Center for Disaster Resilience in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland (USA). He was formerly the Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland (2012-2017).

Richard Mark Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is a coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (4th edition, Wiley, 2015), which since 1978 has been used as the introductory chemical engineering text by roughly 90% of American universities and a number of universities elsewhere, and he has authored or coauthored four book chapters, over 150 education-related papers and over 100 “Random Thoughts” columns, and numerous papers on chemical process engineering.
 

Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm in Cary, North Carolina. Her areas of expertise are faculty development in engineering and the sciences, evaluation of educational programs at both precollege and college levels, and classroom uses of instructional technology. Together with her husband, Dr. Richard Felder, she coauthored Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (Jossey-Bass, 2016), presented over 400 teaching and faculty development workshops on campuses and at conferences throughout the United States and abroad, and regularly contributes to their blog.