Thursday Key Note Luncheon Address
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Teri Reed-Rhoads, Ph.D.
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Title of Presentation: Changing Many Conversations
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The 2008 report from the National Academy of Engineering, "Changing the Conversation:
Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering", encouraged our discipline
to take a critical look at how we talk about or message our profession through the
conversations we have with others, including prospective students, their parents,
and the general public. While the impetus of the original report focused on recruiting,
we can take it even further to other important areas within the engineering education
pathways, including admissions, retention, and growth. This address will begin with
a discussion of this changing conversation and quickly challenge the participant
to change many conversations.
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Biography:
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Dr. Teri Reed-Rhoads is assistant vice chancellor of academic affairs for engineering
(TEES), assistant dean of academic affairs for the Dwight Look College of Engineering,
and associate professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M
University. She received her BS in petroleum engineering from the University of
Oklahoma and spent 7 years in the petroleum industry during which time she earned
her MBA. She subsequently received her PhD in industrial engineering from Arizona
State University. Dr. Reed-Rhoads' teaching interests include statistics, interdisciplinary
and introductory engineering, diversity and leadership. Her research interests include
statistics education, concept inventory development, assessment/evaluation of learning
and programs, recruitment and retention, diversity, and equity. She has received
funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, various foundations,
and industry. Professor Reed-Rhoads is a member and Fellow of the American Society
for Engineering Education (ASEE), and a member of the Institute of Electronics and
Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the American Society
for Quality. She serves as an ABET Engineering Accreditation Council evaluator for
ASEE and is the co-chair of the Undergraduate Experience Council. Dr. Reed-Rhoads
served as a reviewer of the United State's National Academy of Engineering's (NAE)
2008 report Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding
of Engineering and 2010 report Standards for K-12 Engineering Education? and was
an invited participant in NAE's Committee on Curriculum Reform and the NAE workshop
Curriculum: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting Opportunities. She recently
joined Texas A&M University from Purdue University, where she received one of Purdue's
highest honors given by the University President in the fall of 2012, the One Brick
Higher Award. She has two boys, one is a first-year student at Purdue and the second
is a sophomore at Allen Academy in Bryan, Texas.
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