Dr. Stephanie Ivey, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, is currently involved in several engineering and STEM education projects. She is part of the project team for the NSF funded MemphiSTEP: A STEM Talent Expansion Program (NSF DUE 0756738), where her responsibilities include coordination of the entire project’s mentoring activities, including the peer-mentoring, peer-tutoring, and STEM club mini-grant program. She is leading a project focused on service learning within the Civil Engineering curriculum and a project examining links between learning styles and freshman attrition from engineering programs. Dr. Ivey et al. received the 2005 Best Research Paper award from the ASEE Midwest Section, and the 2006 award from ASEE Zone III for the preliminary publication from the learning style project. She teaches courses in transportation engineering and engineering statistics and conducts research in the area of sustainable community development and freight modeling. She is a lead faculty instructor for the Herff College of Engineering’s targeted outreach program, Girls Experiencing Engineering, since its inception in 2004, and has also served as program faculty in other co-educational outreach programs. She has experience as a high-school math/science teacher, is the faculty advisor for the UM Institute of Transportation Engineers student chapter, and holds a local office with ASCE.