biomedical engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She coordinates the departmental graduate program and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering, primarily in designing digital systems for hardware. She is the PI for Scholars in Engineering (SiE), an NSF S-STEMS scholarship for undergraduate and Master’s students. She is a member of the Morgan team that is developing online laboratory courses for undergraduate students. Her research expertise is in algorithm optimization for FPGA implementation and her research group has developed a novel biologically inspired image fusion algorithm. She has over 35 journal and conference publications combined.Mrs. LaDawn E. Partlow M
experiences and outcomes of undergraduate STEM students. She has been the lead external evaluator for a number of STEM and NSF- funded projects, including an NSF TUES III, a WIDER project, an NSF EEC project through WGBH Boston, an NSF RET project, an S-STEM project, a CPATH project, and a CCLI Phase II project. She also currently serves as the internal evaluator for WMU’s Woodrow Wilson Fellows project and the institution’s Howard Hughes Medical project, and has contributed to other current and completed evaluations of NSF- funded projects carried out at SAMPI. Page 24.565.2 c