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Nadiye O. Erdil, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering and engineering and operations management at the University of New Haven. She has many years of experience in higher education and has held several academic positions including administrative appointments. She has experience in teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate level. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Erdil worked as an engineer in sheet metal manufacturing and pipe fabrication industry for several years. She holds B.S. in Computer Engineering and M.S. in Industrial Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Binghamton University (SUNY). Her background and research interests are in quality and productivity improvement using statistical tools, lean methods and use of information technology in operations management. Her work is primarily in manufacturing and healthcare delivery operations.

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Ron Harichandran is Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and is the PI of the grant entitled Developing Entrepreneurial Thinking in Engineering Students by Utilizing Integrated Online Modules and Experiential Learning Opportunities. Through this grant entrepreneurial learning has been integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs. Faculty development on entrepreneurial minded learning is a part of this effort.

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Maria-Isabel Carnasciali is an Assistant Provost for Program Assessment and Effectiveness at the University of New Haven, CT. She is also an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and her Bachelors of Engineering from MIT. She has over 12 years of experience in faculty development efforts; focusing the last 6 years on the integration of entrepreneurial mindset into the curriculum. Her engineering education research focuses on the nontraditional engineering student – understanding their motivations, identity development, and impact of prior engineering-related experiences. Her work dwells into learning in informal settings such as summer camps, military experiences, and extra-curricular activities. Other research interests involve validation of CFD models for aerospace and industrial applications, as well as optimizing efficiency of thermal-fluid systems.

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Jean Nocito-Gobel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of New Haven, received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been actively involved in a number of educational initiatives in the Tagliatela College of Engineering including KEEN and PITCH, PI of the ASPIRE grant, and is the coordinator for the first-year Intro to Engineering course. Her professional interests include modeling the transport and fate of contaminants in groundwater and surface water systems, as well as engineering education reform.

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Dr. Goli Nossoni is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of New Haven. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in civil engineering. In addition to her interest in engineering education, Dr. Nossoni specializes in the research areas of concrete materials and corrosion of steel inside concrete.

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Emese Hadnagy is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Haven; she received her Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire. She is also the director of both the on-ground and fully online MS environmental engineering programs at the University of New Haven. She teaches courses in water resources and environmental engineering both at the undergraduate and graduate level, and one of her interests is to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in her students. Her research focuses on surface water quality assessments, contaminant fate and transport studies, and innovative treatment technology development.

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Dr. Joseph A. Levert, P.E. (M’05) received his BS in mechanical engineering from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA in 1981, his MS in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA in 1990, and his Ph.D. in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA in 1997.
He is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of New Haven. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Maritime College. He has practiced engineering in the petroleum, aerospace, integrated circuit fabrication and fiber-optics industries.
Dr. Levert is a member of STLE, and ASME, and was awarded the best paper award by the ASME Tribology Division in October 2000 (as co-author) for “Interfacial Fluid Mechanics and Pressure Prediction in Chemical Mechanical Polishing”.

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