The ASEE Board of Directors established the ASEE Corporate Member Council to convey to ASEE the ideas and views of corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations with an interest in engineering education and research.
Mission
The CMC's mission is to foster, encourage, and cultivate the dialogue between industry and engineering educators.
Strategic Goals
- Diversity in engineering education
- Enhancing the K-12 educational pipeline/future workforce
- Reforming engineering education
- Collaborating on engineering research and intellectual property
- Liaison with engineering, technology, and the Society.
CHAIR, CORPORATE MEMBER COUNCIL
Dora Smith (2023)
CHAIR, CORPORATE MEMBER COUNCIL
Senior Director of Global Academic Program
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
13690 Riverport Drive
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
Phone: 314-264-8480
e-mail: dora.smith@siemens.com
The CMC meetings for 2019-2020 year occur on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 2:00 pm EST (by teleconference). The council's members also meet at various ASEE events including the CIEC and the ASEE Annual Conference. Contact the Chair for specific details of upcoming meetings or Ann Korando a.korando@asee.org to be added to the information list.
Special Interest Groups (SIG)
- SIG for System Engineering – Alice Squires
Past SIGs
- SIG for Collaboration in Engineering Education –Roger N. Olson
- SIG for Diversity Issues in Engineering Education –Letha Hammon
- SIG for K-12 Educational Pipeline, Future Workforce –Richard Blais & Leslie Carson
- SIG for ASEE Society and Corporate Member Integration –Pat Fox
- SIG for International Engineering Education – Alan Jacobs & Lynn Brown
Corporate Member Council News

CMC Director, Cynthia Murphy from Chevron Wins the 2019 WEPAN Industry Trailblazer Award
CMC Sessions
- Industry 4.0 Workforce Summit - April 2022 (pull shorter summary from the PRISM article attached
- Summit Takeaways as presented in GEDC webinar
- EDI 2022 - Industry 4.0: Preparing our future workforce for the “next normal”
How do we design the “next normal” to prepare students for the engineering careers of tomorrow? Engineering is at a crossroads. This includes its practice in the workplace and how it’s taught in the classroom. A digital transformation has shifted the engineering landscape, and industry and academia must collaborate to improve curricula, work-based experiences, policies, and practices to prepare future engineers and skilled technical workers. This panel will discuss how academia can tackle the challenge of preparing the workforce for the fourth industrial revolution. This will be an engaging and interactive discussion addressing targeted topics around the transformative technologies that define Industry 4.0. This session is part of a series of ASEE/CMC events that are fostering new networks, consortia, and partnerships among academic institutions, businesses, and policy makers to spur the evolution of engineering education to keep pace with industry needs. Mark your calendars to join the in-person gathering that is the culmination of this two-year effort -
- March 2022 webinar: Policies for Building a Skilled/Technical Workforce for High-Value Manufacturing
- February 2022 webinar: Community Colleges and ATE Programs Addressing Workforce for Industry 4.0
- November 2021 webinar: Call for Action for Engineering Education Reforms
- September 2021 webinar: Alternative Pathways, Platforms and Policies
- March 2021: A Town Hall Towards Action: Developing Education 4.0 Roadmaps
- January 2021: Industry 4.0 Education, Policies, Perspectives and Pandemics – Summary blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asee-industry-40-workforce-summit-takeaways-p-j-boardman/
- November 2020: Accelerating Engineering Education Reform to Meet the Demands of the Talent Pipeline
- October 2020: Leveraging the Digital Domain for Workforce Development – Summary blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-takeaways-from-asee-industry-40-summit-dora-smith/
- Industry Day Plenary Speakers SaLisa L Berrien and Jane Castor, Mayor of Tampa, FL
- Industry Day Session - The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Special session on the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Industry 4.0 and its dramatic technical and cultural impact around the world! Moderated by David Pistrui, clinical professor of engineering and director of graduate recruiting at the University of Detroit Mercy, with panelists from the leading automotive industry partners
- Industry Day Session - Brainstorming Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Approaches and the Challenges in Industry
Representatives from Chevron, Siemens, and Northrop Grumman will facilitate a set of round-robin activities in which audience members address workplace approaches and challenges for creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture.
- Distinguished Lecture - Engagement of Engineering Societies in Undergraduate Engineering Education
The National Academy of Engineering panelists who will discuss their two-year, National Science Foundation- supported project analyzing ASEE’s role in improving undergraduate education.
2018 Industry Day Session
2017 CMC session - ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
2016 CMC session - ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
2015 CMC session - ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition