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Greg Pearson is a Scholar with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. Greg currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the NSF-funded project “The Status, Role, and Needs of Engineering Technology Education in the United States.” He is also study director for the Chevron-funded project, Guiding Implementation of K-12 Engineering in the United States. He was the study director for the NAE and National Research Council project that resulted in the 2014 report, STEM Integration in K-12 Education: Status, Prospects, and an Agenda for Research. He was the study director for the project that resulted in publication of Standards for K-12 Engineering Education? (2010) and Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects (2009), an analysis of efforts to teach engineering to U.S. school children. He oversaw the NSF-funded project that resulted in the 2013 publication of Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action and the 2008 publication of Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering and was co-editor of the reports Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy (2006) and Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology (2002). In the late 1990s, Greg oversaw NAE and National Research Council reviews of technology education content standards developed by the International Technology Education Association.

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Daniel Kuehn is a Research Associate I in the Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center and a doctoral student in American University’s Department of Economics. He has eight years of experience conducting and managing research on the economics of education and training, the science and engineering workforce, human capital, and impact analyses of labor market programs. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles, book chapters, reports, and policy briefs, and presented his research to academic and stakeholder audiences. Daniel has worked on research projects for the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, and several private foundations.

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Walt Buchanan is a professor at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow and served on the Board of Directors of both ASEE and NSPE, is a Past President of ASEE, and is a registered P.E. in six states. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of TAC of ABET, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Technology, has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles and referred conference proceedings, and has been a principal investigator for NSF.

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Jeffrey L. Ray, F.ASEE has been Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University since 2014. Prior to this appointment he was Dean of the School of Engineering Technology and Management at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU, now Kennesaw State University) in Marietta, Georgia beginning in 2007. Prior to joining SPSU, he was the Director of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Grand Valley State University for ten years, in addition to leading the multidisciplinary industry-sponsored capstone design courses. Before joining Grand Valley State University he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Youngstown State University. His degrees include both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt he worked for the Vanderbilt University Department of Orthopaedics performing skeletal biodynamics research. Before beginning engineering school he completed an apprenticeship and was awarded the title of Journeyman Industrial Electrician.

Ray has been an active member at both national and sectional levels. He previously served as Chair of the Engineering Technology Council and Vice-President, Institutional Councils on ASEE's Board of Directors. Other service includes Chairing the Frederick J Berger awards committee; Chair of the ASEE Bylaws and Constitution committee; Chair of the Risk Management committee; member of the Strategic Doing Governance committee; and the National Teaching awards committee.

Additionally, Ray has been a reviewer, moderator, and author in multiple ASEE divisions at both national and sectional levels since joining the society. His awards include two Best Session awards at the Conference on Industry Education Collaboration in 2008 and 2013, respectively. In 2009, he served as the Chair of the Southeastern Section annual conference.

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Melvin L. Roberts is a full Professor of Engineering and the Interim Dean of the Division of Business, Computer and Technical Studies at Camden County College (CCC) in Blackwood, New Jersey. He formerly held the Deans position from 2007 through 2014 after which he returned to the faculty ranks until August 2016. He has also held the post of Dean of Occupational Skills & Customized Training at the college. Dr. Roberts began teaching at CCC in 1990 and has held positions including professor and Chair of the college's Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and the Computer Aided Drafting departments. Melvin's specialties are PLC Programming and Industrial Automation. He also teaches courses in Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, and Physics. From 2007 through 2014, Dr. Roberts held the position of Program Chair of the ASEE Two-Year College (TYC) Division and he was the Chair of the TYCD Division since 2009.
Dr. Roberts holds the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering cum laude from Howard University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Doctorate in Educational from Wilmington University, Delaware. His dissertation used discriminant analysis methods to explore the factors which affect the persistence of Engineering Technology students attending a two-year college. Melvin is also a Registered Professional Engineer.

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