Yewande Abraham
Associate Professor, Construction Science
Texas A&M University

Yewande Abraham is an Associate Professor in Construction Science at Texas A&M University. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Civil Engineering from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom and completed her Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering (Construction Option) at The Pennsylvania State University. She is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and an associate member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Her research focuses on construction education, sustainable built environments, and the application of emerging technologies to advance learning, workforce development, and industry-relevant competencies.

Cindy Anderson
EOP Co-founder & Strategy Consultant
The Lemelson Foundation

Cindy Anderson, MS, MEd., Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Co-founder and Strategy Consultant with The Lemelson Foundation, is honored to be a collaborative partner on the EOP initiative since its inception, co-author of the EOP Framework and framework companion teaching guides, and an active EOP Network Member. Cindy is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting which specializes in innovative sustainability-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government, and corporations. She has taught thousands of people through courses and workshops, around the world and online, in the fields of biology, sustainability, and biomimicry. Cindy holds a MS from Oregon State University, a MEd from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia), and a BSc in biology from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada).

Ashish D. Borgaonkar
Assistant Professor, Engineering Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Dr. Ashish D. Borgaonkar is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering. His primary research focuses on interdisciplinary curriculum, translation of advanced research topics and novel technologies into engineering education and curriculum, as well as preparing the next-generation STEM workforce through experiential learning, academic enrichment, and workforce development training programs. He has developed and taught several core engineering courses, primarily in first-year engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and general/interdisciplinary engineering. He is the Founding Director of NJIT’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program, endorsed by the National Academy of Engineering. His contributions to scholarship of teaching and learning have been recognized with multiple awards; most recently and notably, the ASEE-MAS 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award and NJIT’s 2025 Nexus Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring.

Lisa Bosman
Associate Professor, Technology Leadership and Innovation
Purdue University

Dr. Lisa Bosman, PhD in Industrial Engineering, is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. As the founding director of iAGREE Labs (Inclusive, Applied, and Grounded Research in Entrepreneurially-Minded Education), she aims to empower action via real-world solutions and evidence-based practices. Her STEM education research interests include renewable energy, entrepreneurial mindset, competency-based learning, self-regulated learning, transdisciplinary education, integrating the humanities into engineering education, workforce development and faculty professional development. Find out more at www.iagree.org.

Jasmina Burek
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Dr. Jasmina Burek (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Lowell and Principal Investigator of the BUREK Lab (BUilding REsilience through Knowledge). Her research centers on sustainability and resilience engineering, with a focus on life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate and reduce environmental, social, and economic impacts. She develops decision-making models for products, materials, and buildings. A systems-level thinker and sustainability advocate, she is currently leading the development of the University Handprint Framework, which quantifies the positive sustainability impacts that academic institutions generate beyond their operational boundaries.

Pamela Carralero
Assistant Professor, Environmental Humanities
Kettering University

Pamela Carralero is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Kettering University. Using an environmental justice lens, she teaches and researches at the intersection of ecocriticism and environmental futures. In the classroom, she strengthens STEM students’ capacity to assess the socio-environmental impact of their work. Pamela is also a climate resilience practitioner in Flint, MI. She is the Principal Investigator of Climate Resilient Flint, a climate literacy, community-driven project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Environmental Literacy Program. She holds the Regional Collaboratories Seat on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

Medha Dalal
Associate Director, Scholarly Initiatives, Learning and Teaching Hub
Arizona State University

Medha Dalal is an Associate Director of Scholarly Initiatives in the Fulton School of Engineering. In this role at the learning and teaching hub, she collaborates with engineering departments and faculty on student success initiatives that are informed by evidence-based teaching strategies. Medha also works as an assistant research professor in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies from Arizona State University, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests span three related areas: democratization of engineering education, ways of thinking, and professional development.

Kelley E. Dugan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Dr. Kelley E. Dugan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research interests are at the intersection of engineering education and design including topics such as sustainable design, systems thinking, and community-engaged learning. They are a 2025-26 KEEN Engineering Unleashed Fellow working on integrating sustainability into design for manufacturing courses and joined RHIT in 2023. Prior to that, they completed a graduate internship with the Government Accountability Office’s Physical Infrastructure team and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and worked as an engineer in the consumer appliance industry. While at U-M, they also worked part time for the Center for Socially Engaged Design and the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.

Lorena Grundy
Practice Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

Lorena Grundy is a Practice Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded and directs the master’s program in Energy and Sustainability Engineering. She also serves as the faculty advisor for two undergraduate minors, Energy and Sustainability and Sustainability and Environmental Management. She is particularly interested in experiential education, serving as the faculty advisor for Engineers Without Borders and the Sustainable Engineering for Environmental Design club, and has launched a new Experiential Education Initiative to integrate hands-on projects into engineering courses, along with a pedagogy program in STEM Teaching Practice for PhD students. Her engineering education research focuses on systems and structures in higher education, and she chairs the EOP Network committee on institutionalization of the EOP framework.

Elin Jensen
Chair, Department of Civil Engineering
Lawrence Technological University

Dr. Elin Jensen has a broad background in engineering education, research, and industry collaboration. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Aalborg University. She serves as Chair of the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. In 2023, she was a recipient of an ASEE EOP Mini Grant for Cohort II. This grant led to curriculum improvements introducing a sustainability spine in the civil engineering and architectural engineering programs. In 2024, she became a member of the EOP Network and continues to promote integration of EOP educational strategies with peers on and off campus.

Janelle Johnson
Director, Colorado STEM Ecosystem
Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr. Janelle Johnson is the Director of the Colorado STEM Ecosystem 2.0 and a Professor of STEM Education at Metropolitan State University of Denver, an urban commuter HSI. She has served as the principal investigator on four National Science Foundation grants to date and is the co-editor of STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement, and Transformation (2018) with Joy Barnes-Johnson. Her scholarship focuses on professional development with teachers towards interdisciplinary and inclusive STEM teaching and learning. She helps educators and STEM providers develop non-deficit lenses while centering the needs of learners who have been less engaged with STEM. Janelle led several NSF-funded GLOBE STEM equity bootcamps and consulted for the NASA Langley educational group with their equity efforts. The Colorado STEM Ecosystem’s innovative digital networking visualization on Kumu has been borrowed by several states and internationally, designed to connect people and organizations in ways for-profit algorithms do not. It increases the visibility of existing efforts so others can partner with them or learn from their designs, in a space that centers transparency and collaboration.

Stefanie Koehler
Innovation Strategist, Design Scientist and Visual Facilitator
Green Crane Innovation

Ms. Stefanie Koehler, MA, is an Innovation Strategist, Design Scientist and Visual Facilitator at Green Crane Innovation. She offers sustainability-focused design and visual thinking to solve business challenges alongside key partners. Additionally, Dr. Koehler has expertise in graphic facilitation, graphic recording, design thinking jams/charrettes, and other unique event and learning experiences. She uses critical listening, real-time synthesis and rapid sketching to help her clients illustrate big picture ideas and context. Ms. Koehler’s goal is to help amplify messages, clarify ideas, vision, and programs to design a more sustainable future with her clients.

Jorge Loyo
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering
Rice University

Jorge Loyo is Associate Director of Education for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) and an Adjunct Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering Departments at Rice University. He has taught multiple undergraduate and graduate courses related to sustainability and water treatment and collaborated in the development of student activities such as Alternative Breaks and work with water-related NGOs. A dual Mexican American citizen, he holds a B.Sc. in Food Chemistry from the National University of Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Jenny Mueller
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Jennifer Mueller, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She graduated with her BS in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University and with her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on Environmental River Mechanics from Colorado State University. Her graduate work focused on exchange of surface water and groundwater, as well as nitrate uptake, in streams with varying degrees of rehabilitation. Dr. Mueller’s areas of interest include water quality, sustainable design, watershed hydrology, and river hydraulics. Current projects involve pedagogical studies for incorporating sustainability and ethical decision making in undergraduate engineering education, with an emphasis on touchpoints throughout the four-year curriculum. Dr. Mueller especially loves mentoring students through capstone senior design projects, where she emphasizes the need for sustainable design through all phases of the design process. She is also the faculty advisor for the student organization, Engineers for a Sustainable World, as well as for the academic minor in sustainability program.

Fethiye Ozis
Assistant Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Fethiye Ozis, Ph.D., is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. She is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Before joining CMU, Dr. Ozis was a faculty member at Northern Arizona University and at University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator, and teaches across the curriculum from first year to graduate level courses in environmental engineering. Her own intersectionality led to her passion in promoting and researching pathways into engineering especially for underrepresented minority groups. Dr. Ozis conducts research in engineering education, related to classroom and innovative pedagogical strategies. She has mentored several undergraduate students to develop proposals and pursue award winning research on novel biotechnologies for water and wastewater treatment. She has been an ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Fellow since 2016, and currently serves as a mentor. Dr. Ozis earned multiple teaching, research and service awards from Northern Arizona University and the American Society for Engineering Education.

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah
Professor, Environmental Engineering; Chair, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
University of Detroit Mercy

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, Ph.D., is a Professor of environmental engineering and engineering ethics and Chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Beyrouth, Lebanon, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her graduate work focused on microbial sensing and contaminant bioavailability in complex environmental systems. Her research interests include pollutant modeling in groundwater, renewable energy, and sustainable design. Her pedagogical work focuses on innovative strategies in education and integrating dimensions of environmental and social justice in engineering courses to help educate socially aware engineers. She is the faculty advisor for the student organization, Society of Women Engineers. She received the ASEE-NCS 2025 Outstanding Teaching Award and she is the 2026 Division Chair of ASEE – Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Division.

Dustyn Roberts
Practice Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania

Dustyn Roberts is a Practice Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her training, professional experience, and interests span mechanical, financial, and transportation engineering. She’s passionate about engineering education, sustainability, and bridging the gap between research and real-world impact through entrepreneurial thinking and translational work. Her work has been supported by organizations including NSF, VentureWell, ASEE, The Lemelson Foundation, and Penn4C. She received her B.S. in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, her M.S. in Biomechanics & Movement Science from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from New York University. She rides her electric cargo bike to work most days, usually with her oldest kid on the back.

Cordula Schmid
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UMass Lowell

Cordula Schmid is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Lowell, where she leads the Photovoltaic Prototyping and Characterization Laboratory and serves as Associate Director of the Center for Energy Innovation. She has over 20 years of experience in solar photovoltaics, materials, durability, energy efficiency, and sustainability. Before joining UMass Lowell, she spent 16 years in applied contract research, working with industry partners, utilities, national labs, and government-funded programs to advance renewable energy technologies. As a mentor, she enjoys helping students connect technical knowledge with real-world applications and develop practical, impactful solutions.

Deborah Steinberg
Manager, Green Practices and Sustainability
Carnegie Mellon University

Deborah Steinberg has been working as an educator and leader in the sustainability and non-profit fields for more than 20 years. Currently serving as Carnegie Mellon University’s Green Practices and Sustainability Manager, she provides vision and action to advance campus environmental sustainability. Deborah holds a Masters in both landscape architecture from Chatham University and in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BS in Resource Ecology and Management from the University of Michigan. She co-chairs the Higher Education Climate Consortium of Pittsburgh, serves on the Clean Pittsburgh Commission, and is a CURC Board Member.

Noe Vargas Hernandez
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Dr. Vargas Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with expertise on product innovation and entrepreneurship, design thinking, sustainable design, biomedical design, and design education. He has ample experience teaching design and innovation to student teams currently at UTRGV, and previously at UT El Paso and Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently leading an effort to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the departmental and College levels at UTRGV and collaborating with the College of Business. Dr. Vargas has various patents, and over 20 years of expertise and leadership in engineering design, creativity, and innovation.

Andrea L. Welker
Dean, School of Engineering
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)

Andrea Welker, PhD, PE, ENV SP, F.ASCE is the Dean of the School of Engineering and a Professor of Civil Engineering at The College of New Jersey. She obtained her BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Drexel University, worked at Gannett Fleming in Pittsburgh, PA, and obtained her PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an Envision Sustainability professional. Dr. Welker is very active in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). In October 2023 she hosted the ASEE Middle Atlantic Section at TCNJ. In addition, she has served as the Secretary and Treasurer, Freshman Director, Midterm Director, Senior Director, Program Chair, and Chair of the Civil Engineering Division of ASEE. She is currently serving as the Civil Engineering Division’s liaison to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as part of the Committee on Workforce and Education. Dr. Welker has served on the planning committees for the ASEE Engineering Deans Institute (EDI) in 2024 and 2025 and recently was the co-chair of the 2026 EDI. Dr. Welker is involved in the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative spearheaded by The Lemelson Foundation. She is an active member of the EOP network and has served as an EOP minigrant program mentor since the program’s inception. She is also a long standing and active member of ASCE. Her research interests include stormwater management and sustainability.

Allison Wolf
Sr. Program Coordinator, Sustainability Teachers’ Academies
Arizona State University

As the senior program coordinator for ASU’s Sustainability Teachers’ Academies, Allison Wolf oversees all logistics programming. She supported the logistics, workshop design, and facilitation of the EOP Faculty Fellowship from 2022–2024. Using experience as a former high school teacher, she uses humanizing pedagogy and a focus on relationships to work with the program managers in her department to create professional development opportunities for K-12 educators. This position allows her to pair her passion for sustainability education with her skills in facilitation, administration, and evaluation.

Ro Worthy
Assistant Dean, Student Success and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kennesaw State University

Dr. Ro Worthy is currently the Assistant Dean of Student Success and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw State University. In addition to her administrative role, she remains actively engaged in teaching and conducts research with a focus on increasing the representation of minorities in Engineering. Before joining the university, Dr. Worthy served as a Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University, contributing to a group funded by the Department of Energy. Her primary research focused on the long-term evaluation of near-surface waste disposal under climate change impacts at nuclear waste sites. With a background as an environmental engineer/planner at Gresham, Smith, and Partners, as well as General Motors Corporation, Dr. Worthy brings a wealth of industry experience to her academic roles. She has a proven track record of addressing critical environmental challenges. In her recent endeavors, Dr. Worthy is actively collaborating with the Lemelson Foundation to institutionalize the Engineering for One Planet framework at Kennesaw State University. This initiative reflects her commitment to sustainability and innovative engineering practices.

Lindsey Yue
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)

Problem solver, critical thinker, leader. Dr. Lindsey Yue is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), a predominately undergraduate institution in Ewing, New Jersey. Her technical background is in the thermal sciences, including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics, as well as thermochemistry and concentrated solar thermal energy technologies. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN and a doctorate degree in engineering from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She did her postdoctoral research on high-temperature solar thermal energy technologies at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. Current interests related to undergraduate education include curricular and assessment innovation and applied learning experiences. Lindsey is involved in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community at TCNJ and a champion of inclusivity and accessibility. With interests ranging from horticulture to fiber arts, equitable curriculum development to DIY projects, Lindsey is an engineer and so much more.