Leads and guides the School of Engineering Education, first of its kind in the nation with 24 faculty and over 30 staff members who have established themselves as national leaders in this new discipline. Provides vision and strategic direction for achieving the School's goals of empowering its people, setting the pace in innovative programs, identifying and tackling the important research questions, and growing the engineering education community nationally and globally (https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/AboutUs/StratPlan.pdf). The School's activities include the pursuit of excellence in the education of all first-year engineering students and conducting scholarly research on engineering epistemologies, learning mechanisms, engineering diversity and inclusiveness, and engineering education assessment across pre-college to lifelong learning. ENE includes a graduate program in engineering education with ~70 graduate students, three undergraduate programs: First-Year Engineering (~3100 students), two bachelor's programs in Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and an ABET-accredited degree in Multidisciplinary Engineering (~100), and a university recognized research center - INSPIRE Research Institute for PreCollege Engineering.

The NSF-Funded ASPIRE Engineering Research Center is pursuing widespread electrification of all vehicle classes, improved air quality, and public infrastructure that provides an inexpensive, seamless charging experience. As Director of Engineering Workforce Development, we seek to establish robust pathways into and through engineering with seamless transitions across informal and formal pre-college education, the trades, 2- and 4-year undergraduate education, graduate education, badges, certificates and ongoing professional education, and more. We seek to instill competencies in systems of systems thinking, transdisciplinary practice, and a complete set of professional and affective skills to develop an engineering workforce ready for the holistic challenges of sustainable public infrastructure and transportation.

Professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of EngineeringAffiliate faculty in Science, Technology & Society and Women & Gender Studies I developed and taught an undergraduate course in "Citizen Engineering" for non-engineers, exploring informal and formal forms of engineering design, the interrelationship of technology and society, and public participation in large engineering projects. I taught the departmental Graduate Seminar, and co-prepared a graduate elective in Proposal Writing.I conducted research in engineering education that intersects with ethics, gender studies, and STS/engineering studies.

Managed $25 million funding portfolio across four programs in engineering education. Led development of new initiative in Professional Formation of Engineers, including creation of new solicitation in Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) as well as re-design of Research in Formation of Engineers (RFE) and Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF).Through its funding portfolio the Engineering Education Program focuses on informing the creation of a more agile engineering education ecosystem that offers diverse pathways to engineering careers to all members of society and that dynamically and rapidly adapts to meet the changing needs of society and the nation's economy.The RED program enables engineering departments to lead the nation by successfully achieving significant sustainable changes necessary to overcome long-standing issues in their undergraduate programs and educate inclusive communities of engineering students prepared to solve 21st century challenges.The RFE program focuses on achieving systemic improvements by exploring: advancing holistic engineering formation; diversifying pathways to and through engineering; citizen engineering, credentialing and expertise; understanding how change in engineering formation travels, translates, transfers, diffuses, and/or scales; and developing engineering-specific theories of formation.The RIEF program seeks to enable engineering faculty who are renowned for teaching, mentoring, or leading educational reform efforts on their campus to initiate collaborations with colleagues in the social sciences to address difficult, boundary-spanning problems in the formation of engineers.The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program recognizes exceptional junior faculty inthe area of engineering education research and practice.

Founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program affiliated with the Ethics Program, the Study of Women and Gender Program, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. I taught core engineering courses including Engineering Thermodynamics; Mass and Heat Transfer; Mass and Energy Balances; and design based introductions to engineering for majors and non-majors. I taught electives including Risk Assessment; Engineering and Global Development; Science, Technology, and Ethics. I advised independent studies and senior theses and coached capstone design teams. I conducted research in engineering education that intersects with ethics, gender studies, and STS/engineering studies, as well as participating in community-based research on air quality and consumer product risk.

Mercury as an indoor air pollutant; cultural and religious uses of mercury

Electronic markets for second-hand goods; industrial ecology of mercury in New Jersey; cultural and religious uses of mercury