Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. In her engineering work, Helen has been involved in several major engineering education initiatives including the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education and National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), as well as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education. She is a co-founder of EPAC, an ePortfolio community of practice, and serves as a board member for the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning. Helen is currently a faculty member for the American Association of Colleges and Universities' Institute on ePortfolios and is a co-author of Documenting Learning with ePortfolios: A Guide for College Instructors (Jossey-Bass, 2011). Her current research and scholarship focus on engineering and entrepreneurship education; the pedagogy of portfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and redesigning how learning is represented in traditional transcripts and academic credentials.