Jennifer "Jenny" Amos, Ph.D., is a faculty member, chief academic advisor, and director of undergraduate programs for the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amos received her bachelor's in chemical engineering from Texas Tech University and her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina College in chemical engineering with a focus in developmental biology and cell imaging through the University of South Caroline School of Medicine. She was also an NSF GK-12 Fellow during her graduate work and earned a certificate in the Preparing Future Faculty Program while pursuing her Ph.D.
Amos is now dedicated to undergraduate education through developing innovative courses and hands-on teaching labs, such as tissue engineering, cellular energetics, and the bioreactor Lab. She also develops modules and coordinates K-12 summer camps involving bioengineering, and conducts engineering education research involving capstone experiences for undergraduates. She is a program evaluator for BMES and an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Janice Bordeaux, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and a Licensed Psychologist, has been working in higher education on student learning, effective teaching methods, curriculum initiatives, outcomes assessment, program development processes, and institutional effectiveness for 15 years.
She has worked with faculty and staff at Rice University – a Tier 1 research institution – in all stages of program development and is responsible for leading both ABET and regional accreditation activities in the engineering school.
Bordeaux has collaborated on numerous federally and privately funded educational projects, including interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, and web-based initiatives for academic communities, all of which involved outcomes-based assessment. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She also serves as the Coordinator of Assessment and Continuous Improvement in her home Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University and a bachelor's in engineering science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of AIChE and ASEE.
Over the past 26 years, Daina 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 assessment and evaluation. She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007 and a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011, and she is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Patricia J. S. Colberg, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming. She holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University. Her B.S., from North Dakota State University, and M.S., from University of Idaho, degrees are in microbiology. She is a member of ASEE, AEESP, and AAEE.
Colberg serves as Mentoring Champion for the College of Engineering and Applied Science and ABET Coordinator for her department. She was named an Education Fellow in the Life Sciences by the National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and has received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University of Wyoming. She maintains an active research program in the area of environmental microbiology and contaminant remediation.
In her free time, Colberg likes to ski, kayak, hike, snowshoe, cycle, travel, garden (at 7,200 feet!), and cook (especially French and East Indian). She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Elaine Cooney is the Chair of the Department of Engineering Technology and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Cooney is the past Director of Assessment for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Her areas of scholarship include engineering technology education assessment, analog circuits and signals, and radio-frequency identification (RFID). Currently, she is researching best practices in teaching and assessing critical thinking and problem solving in engineering and engineering technology. Cooney is the author of RFID+ The Complete Review of Radio Frequency Identification. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Tammie Cumming, Ph.D., of the New York City College of Technology - City University of New York - is an expert in assessment and psychometrics with more than 20 years of experience in the testing industry and with assessment activities at the post-secondary level. As the Director for the Office of Assessment and Institutional Research, she oversees assessment activities for 30 academic departments and provides guidance for institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning and for various accreditation agency requirements. Cumming is the director for one of four major activities under the umbrella of a 2010-2015 $3.2 million, Department of Education Title V grant and oversees the institutionalization of creating a culture of assessment for learning to improve student outcomes. In 2011, she was the recipient of a Major Institutional Grants for Education and Public Service Award for the City University of New York.
Cumming provides workshops and seminars for the development of a continuous improvement model, emphasizing direct assessment methods to improve student outcomes at the institution. Cumming also serves as a reviewer for the Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum and a consultant to U.S. and international post-secondary institutions regarding the utilization of direct assessment methods and fulfilling regional and professional accreditation requirements. Cumming and her team have recently developed a comprehensive web-based assessment system to aid programs in their program assessment planning, curriculum mapping, data collection and scoring, data analysis, reporting results, and documenting improvement strategies.She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Zaher Daboussi, Ph.D., is an electrical engineer with extensive experience in technology assessment and development of energy systems, power electronics, and propulsion systems and controls. Over the last 22 years, Daboussi has been working with a number of companies, where he had assumed the role of a CTO and principal investigator/designer.
In the UAE and as a CTO, Daboussi has been leading strategic-level activities where he is involved in identifying high tech companies and performing assessment and due diligence for acquisition purposes and is involved in setting up training programs for the purpose of capability building.
As the Director of Engineering at AeroVironment, Inc., Daboussi and his team of engineers have developed electrical propulsion and power generation systems for unmanned hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy applications. In addition, Daboussi has developed energy storage solutions for aerospace and terrestrial applications where advanced energy conversion devices such as fuel cells, micro-turbines, photovoltaic, and flywheels are used.
Academically, Daboussi held an adjunct faculty position at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where he taught a graduate-level course on power electronics and industrial drive and energy systems.
Daboussi's primary interest is in technology development for high performance electrical propulsion systems, energy storage systems, renewable energy and energy efficient devices and in setting up and assessing engineering training programs. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar
Osman A. Elnawawy, Ph.D., received his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 1974 and 1978 and his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1988. He has been working in academia since 1976 and held several position starting assistant lecturer at Ain Shams University (1976-82), Research Assistant at the University of Illinois (1984-88), Research Scientist at the International Ground Water Modeling Center in Indianapolis (1989-91), Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (1991-93), and Faculty Member at Ain Shams University (1994-2000). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at Qatar University since 2000.
Currently, Elnawawy holds the rank of professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Qatar University, where he also serves as his program's assessment and continuous improvement coordinator. He teaches classes in fluid mechanics, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, and groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport.
Elnawawy is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Geophysical Union, the American Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, and the Egyptian Syndicate of Civil Engineers.He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar
Kathy S. Faggiani, Ph.D., MBA, is Professor and Director of Continuing Studies and Outreach at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and formerly served as Program Director for Graduate Engineering Management programs. In addition, she has held positions as Professor and Program Chair for Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University – Pueblo and Associate Professor at Bemidji State University. She has also worked with online undergraduate computing programs at Walden University to more fully develop program assessment processes and to help prepare for ABET accreditation. Kathy holds a doctorate in Information Systems from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of ASEE, IEEE, and the ACM.
Over the past 20 years, Kathy has assumed a variety of learning outcome and program assessment roles at the course, department, college, and university levels. She has also developed and delivered internal assessment training for faculty and departments and assisted in designing and implementing continuous improvement processes. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Ben Juliano, Ph.D., is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management at California State University, Chico. He has served as Associate Dean since 2010, and he also serves as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in his college since 2011. He has been the college's Assessment Coordinator since 2007 and was the Department of Computer Science's Assessment Facilitator from 2007-2010. As the college's Assessment Coordinator, he manages and facilitates all assessment, accreditation, and academic program review efforts for all 11 undergraduate programs (9 accredited) and 2 graduate programs offered in his college.
Ben is also 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 autonomous robots, intelligent systems, data mining, and computational intelligence algorithms. He received his bachelor's in computer science from the University of the Philippines in Los Banos 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
Owens Walker, Ph.D., is a Commander in the United States Navy with more than 25 years of service. A married father of three children, he is currently a member of the faculty of the United States Naval Academy, where he serves as the Assessment Chair in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Owens received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1987 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, in 1995 and 2009, respectively. He has been instrumental in the development of networking and cyber security course offerings at the United States Naval Academy, and his current research work includes wireless network security, wireless medium access, and wireless sensor networks for battlefield monitoring. Owens is a member of the IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu.
As a Naval Aviator, Owens has logged more than 1,500 flight hours in the P-3C Orion aircraft and has deployed across the globe, participating in operations that range from anti-submarine patrols in the North Atlantic to enforcement of United Nations sanctions in the Persian Gulf. His shore-based assignments included a tour in the Pentagon where he served as the Department Head of Aviation Budget and Programming for the Navy’s Air Warfare Directorate and developed the $180 billion Naval Aviation Program encompassing the procurement, modernization, and sustainment of more than 4000 aircraft. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar
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James Warnock, Ph.D., received his bachelor's in biological sciences from the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and his master's in biochemical engineering and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.
During his doctoral studies, he spent two months as a research fellow in the Department of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Kobe University, Japan. James relocated to Atlanta, GA, in 2003 and spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology with a joint appointment between the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering.
Currently, Warnock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Mississippi State University and serves as the chair of the departmental assessment committee. During 2010-2011, Warnock was the Assessment and Accreditation Coordinator for the James W. Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. During this time, Warnock had responsibility for coordinating the assessment activities of 10 engineering/computer science programs within eight departments, preparing self-study reports and organizing materials for the 2011 ABET site visit. In July 2011 Warnock was invited to become the first Adjunct Director for Educational Research and Assessment at ABET. He has consequently been involved in the planning, preparation and facilitation of numerous ABET workshops, including the one-day Program Assessment Workshops and IDEAL. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.