2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Rachelle Reisberg Northeastern University [biography]

   Rachelle Reisberg is Director of Women in Engineering at Northeastern University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University. She was President of a start-up software company before joining Northeastern.

2. Joseph A. Raelin Northeastern University [biography]

   Joe Raelin is an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of work-based learning and leadership. He holds the Asa. S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University in Boston. He is author of the just released "Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies for Developing Leadership in Everyone."

3. Margaret B. Bailey Rochester Institute of Technology [biography]

   Margaret Bailey is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at RIT and is the Founding Executive Director for the nationally recognized women in engineering program called WE@RIT. She recently accepted the role as Faculty Associate to the Provost for Female Faculty and serves as the co-chair on the President’s Commission on Women. She began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, being the first woman civilian faculty member in her department. Margaret maintains a research program in the area of advanced thermodynamic analyses and health monitoring of energy intensive systems.

4. Jerry Carl Hamann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-6947 University of Wyoming [biography]

   Jerry is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming. He has worked for several years with programs to introduce K-12 teachers and students to technical professions. His research interests also include applied signal processing and robotics.

5. David L. Whitman University of Wyoming [biography]

   David L. Whitman received the B.S. degree (1975) in EE from the University of Wyoming. He also received the Ph.D. degree (1978) in Mineral Engineering from the University of Wyoming. He worked in the synthetic fuels arena prior to becoming a faculty member in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming in 1981. From 1989 to 2005, he was the Associate Dean of Academics and since 2005 has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received UW's College of Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1990 and 2004 and the ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Outstanding Teaching Award in 2001. He is currently the Past President of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES), chairman of the IEEE-USA Licensure & Registration Committee and an active member of ASEE.

6. Leslie K. Pendleton Virginia Tech [biography]

   Dr. Pendleton is the Director of Student Services in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Also an instructor, she teaches courses in engineering ethics, communications, and professionalism as well as courses in the Women's & Gender Studies program. She has extensive academic and career advising experience and experience with planning and implementation of summer programs for high school students and mentoring programs for first-year students from underrepresented groups.

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