Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
Daina M. Briedis is a faculty member at Michigan State University in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, where she also serves as her program's coordinator of assessment and evaluation processes.
For the past 25 years, Briedis has served ABET as program evaluator for AIChE, as a team chair and as a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission. She was 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 assessment and evaluation.
Briedis holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University and a B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of AIChE and ASEE and was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007.