Stephanie G. Adams, Ph.D., is Professor and Department Head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. From 2008-2010 she served as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 2008-2010 and from 1998-2008 she was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).
Her research interests include Team Effectiveness, Collaborative and Active Learning, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, and Quality Control and Management. In 2003 she received the CAREER award from the NSF to support her goal of designing, developing, and validating a model for the facilitation of effective teaming in the engineering classroom.
Adams is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her bachelor's in mechanical engineering. She received a master's in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering from Texas A&M University. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.
Diane Beaudoin, Ph.D., is the Director of Assessment for the College of Engineering at Purdue University, a post she has held for the last three years. She also serves as the Director of Assessment for NSF's Network for Computational Nanotechnology, assessing the impact of the scientific gateway, nanoHUB.org.
Before moving to Indiana, she was a faculty member in the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor's in chemical engineering from The University of Texas and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University. She is 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 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 continuous improvement. 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 25 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 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 technology. Cooney is the author of RFID+ The Complete Review of Radio Frequency Identification. She 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.
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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 also serves as the Assessment and Accreditation Coordinator in the James W. Bagley College of Engineering. In this latter role, James has responsibility for coordinating the assessment activities of 10 engineering programs within eight departments. He teaches classes in biomaterials and problem-based learning and has an active research program studying the role of mechanical forces in cardiovascular disease. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar and recently became ABET's first Adjunct Educational Research and Assessment Director.