Military Veteran Students’ Pathways in Engineering Education (Year 6)

Abstract

Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (EE) and the M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity in engineering including student pathways and inclusive teaching. She is Co-Director of the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI). Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is among the first to study Latinos in engineering and coauthored The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering. Dr. Lord is a Fellow of the IEEE and ASEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the Frontiers in Education Conference, President of the IEEE Education Society, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE) and the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). She and her coauthors received the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in JEE and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE ToE. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing "Developing Changemaking Engineers", an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.

MIDFIELD: A Resource for Longitudinal Student Record Research

“…In the future, more analysis of veterans may be possible using MIDFIELD. This could complement qualitative analyses of veterans in engineering [9]- [11].…”

Transitions of Student Military Veterans into Engineering Education

“…This paper is part of a larger study on student veterans in engineering majors (Brawner et al 2021;Lord et al 2016Lord et al , 2018Lord et al , 2019Lord et al , 2020Main et al 2019;Mobley et al 2019b;Mobley et al 2019a). This study was motivated by the national need for more graduates in STEM majors, and the potential for veterans to contribute to US workforce needs given their unique experiences with technical duties in the military.…”