Dr. Nadia Kellam (she/they) is an Associate Professor of Engineering within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). They are also a faculty in the Engineering Education Systems and Design (EESD) PhD program and currently advise three doctoral students. Their degrees are in mechanical engineering (B.S., M.E., and Ph.D.) and physics (B.S.). They earned their doctorate with an engineering education-focused dissertation in 2006. In addition to being a faculty member at ASU, they also were a faculty member at the University of Georgia where they had the unique opportunity to help develop new engineering education programs in environmental and mechanical engineering. At ASU they helped develop the EESD PhD program that began in 2016.

Since 2016, Kellam served on the editorial board for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). In 2019 they were promoted to deputy editor and will serve in that role until summer 2023. They are a founding co-chair for the American Society of Engineering Education’s Committee on Scholarly Publications that began in 2021. They have also served as director of the Educational Research Methods division and as a friend of the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

In their research they are broadly interested in developing critical understandings of the culture of engineering education and, especially, the experiences of marginalized undergraduate engineering students (e.g., LGBTQIA+ students) and engineering educators (e.g., neurodiverse faculty). They are a qualitative researcher who uses narrative research methods and critical approaches to understand undergraduate students and faculty members’ experiences in engineering education. They have also been on the leadership team for an institutional change project (RED) and are part of a team that is developing an understanding of power and privilege on institutional change teams and how that leads to (or detracts from) institutional change.

They enjoy teaching students ranging from first year students to PhD students. Most recently, they have taught first year seminars, design courses, engineering science courses, and graduate courses focused on qualitative research methods and entrepreneurship. Teaching awards include being a fellow of the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program at UGA and a Top 5% Teaching Award from ASU.

Candidate’s Statement:
I appreciate the opportunity to be considered for the new position of Vice President of Scholarship. Since 2021 I have served as a founding co-chair of ASEE’s new Committee on Scholarly Publications. I have enjoyed serving in this role because of the opportunity to consider how ASEE can better serve its members by expanding the scholarship arm of ASEE (scholarship considered broadly as journal articles, podcasts, and social media posts). ASEE has traditionally served its members primarily through conferences and there is an opportunity to consider new ways to help better serve its members through scholarship. Many of us who consider ASEE as their primary professional organization would benefit greatly from more opportunities and support to grow as scholars in this community and to increase the broader impact of our scholarship.

In the time that I have served as co-chair of the Committee on Scholarly Publications we have begun exploring opportunities to better support graduate students and faculty in publishing their scholarship, to better support existing ASEE-wide and division journals and editorial boards, and to better support those who would like to create new journals or other forms of scholarship (e.g., podcasts). I look forward to the opportunity to explore ways to create policies and procedures across all ASEE journals that help create more just, equitable, and inclusive environments. In addition, I look forward to finding ways for ASEE to better support ASEE journal editorial boards so that they can focus their efforts on editorial work with less effort on administrative tasks.
As a deputy editor of JEE I have observed and been involved with positive changes towards creating an inclusive environment and supporting diverse authors and scholars in our community. These initiatives include, for example, developing a new assistant editor position on the editorial board to create new pathways for diverse editorial board members who are at earlier career points and creating more transparent and inclusive review processes (this included an overhaul of our review process). While these efforts are moving us at JEE towards a more inclusive culture, we can learn from these initiatives (alongside other promising practices) to improve ASEE journals more broadly.

I look forward to the possibility of becoming a Vice President of Scholarship of ASEE so that I can help bring a diverse perspective and elevate diverse perspectives of others to decisions that are made by the ASEE Board. I believe positionality is important to consider in these roles, and therefore I am disclosing that I identify as a queer and neurodiverse woman. I am very excited about the new focus of ASEE on scholarship and look forward to continuing to help promote scholarship within ASEE. If selected, I would love to be able to serve the community in this role and help contribute to ASEE in ways that will help develop a future ASEE that is healthier financially and more resilient, inclusive, and supportive of our members.
 

Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University until April 1, 2023, when she will become Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing and Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Riley joined Purdue in 2017 from Virginia Tech, where she was Professor and Interim Head in the Department of Engineering Education. From 2013-2015 she served as Program Director for Engineering Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Riley spent thirteen years as a founding faculty member of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. In 2005 she received an NSF CAREER award on implementing and assessing pedagogies of liberation in engineering classrooms. Her ongoing work explores the integration of ethics, communication, social analysis, lifelong learning, and other critical capacities in the formation of engineering professionals. Riley is the author of two books, Engineering and Social Justice and Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems, both published by Morgan and Claypool.  She is the recipient of the 2016 Alfred N. Goldsmith Award from the IEEE Professional Communications Society, the 2012 Sterling Olmsted Award from ASEE, the 2010 Educator of the Year award from Out to Innovate, and the 2006 Benjamin Dasher Award from Frontiers in Education. Riley earned a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy. She is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.
 
Candidate Statement:
I am passionate about the potential of engineering education scholarship to change the world. I would be honored to serve as ASEE’s inaugural Vice President for Scholarship, bringing an interdisciplinary and collaborative leadership style to engage creative approaches to scholarly communication in engineering education. I would be excited to lead our community in adopting practices and developing venues that expand access, increase visibility, incorporate diverse emerging perspectives, and connect research to practice.

I have been an ASEE member for 20 years and believe deeply in the work of the society and the benefits it offers to members, including especially support for our scholarship. Over the years I have been involved in the leadership of the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division (Division Chair, Program Chair, Vice Chair, and Chair of the Nominating and Awards Committees). I have served on ASEE’s Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since 2015, and as the Chair of its Policy and Letters subcommittee since 2018. At the end of the 2022 Annual Conference I became Co-Chair (with Nadia Kellam) of the ASEE Committee on Scholarly Publications.

My editorial experience includes serving as Deputy Editor, Journal of Engineering Education (2012-2014); Associate Editor, Engineering Studies (2008-2017); member of the founding Editorial Team, International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace (2012-2018); and co-editor of the book, Engineering and Social Justice: In the University and Beyond (Purdue University Press, 2012). I have served on several editorial advisory boards including for Engineering Studies (2017-), and Studies in Engineering Education (2019-). Other relevant service includes my role as Advisory Board Member for the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (2007-2010), and for the current NAE Guidance Group on Practices for Engineering Education and Research (2021-present). My editorial experience spans established, high-volume, high-readership venues as well as startup, shoestring online venues growing new communities and exploring new practices for review and expression.  I see great potential in ASEE’s move to sharpen our focus on scholarship as a society and I look forward to what we can achieve together in this arena.