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Susan Lord is Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. She received a BS from Cornell University in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (EE) and MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity in engineering including student pathways and inclusive teaching. She has won best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and IEEE Transactions on Education. Dr. Lord is a Fellow of the IEEE and ASEE and received the 2018 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. She is a coauthor of The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering. She is a co-Director of the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI).

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Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and the Dale and Suzi Gallagher of Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. He studies the longitudinal study of engineering students and forming and managing student teams and with collaborators has been recognized for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008, 2011, and 2019 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.

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Richard Layton is a data visualization consultant focusing on educational research. He designs exploratory data graphics to assist a research team in discovering the stories in quantitative data and preparing visuals in which the logic of the display reflects and supports the logic of the argument. He has facilitated numerous workshops on using R for data visualization. He received his BS (1991) in Engineering from California State University, Northridge and his MS (1993) and PhD (1995) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. Retired from teaching in 2020, he is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

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Marisa K. Orr is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”

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Russell A. Long received the B.M. in vocal performance/music theory from Augusta University, Augusta, GA, in 1984; and the M.M. in vocal performance/music history and the M.Ed. in student personnel services from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC in 1989 and 1995, respectively.

He is Managing Director and Data Steward of MIDFIELD at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. He has extensive experience in large dataset construction and analysis, program review, assessment, performance-based funding, and student services in higher education. One of his greatest strengths lies in analyzing data related to student learning outcomes and, therefore, to improving institutional effectiveness. His work with MIDFIELD includes research on obstacles faced by students that interfere with degree completion and how institutional policies affect degree programs.

Mr. Long is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS), and Association for Institutional Research (AIR).

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Joseph Roy has over 15 years of data science and higher education expertise. He currently directs three national annual data collections at the ASEE of colleges of engineering and engineering technology that gather detailed enrollment, degrees awarded, research expenditures, faculty headcounts, faculty salary and retention data for the engineering community. He is PI of a NSF Advanced Technological Education funded grant to build a national data collection for engineering-oriented technician degree and certificate programs at 2-year institutions. Prior to joining the ASEE, he was the senior researcher at the American Association of University Professor and directed their national Faculty Salary Survey. He also developed a technical curriculum to train analysts for a national survey of languages in Ecuador while he was at the University of Illinois as a linguistic data analytics manager and member of their graduate faculty. He has a B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics, a M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa.

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Catherine E. Brawner is president of Research Triangle Educational Consultants in Raleigh, NC. She received her PhD in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from North Carolina State University, her Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University (Bloomington), and a bachelor's degree from Duke University. She specializes in research and evaluation in higher education STEM disciplines with a particular focus on underrepresented groups.

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