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Title:
Exploring Your Future as an Engineering Educator

Abstract:
This will be an interactive session in which students will discuss their visions of the future of engineering education and the roles they may play in it. After all, today’s students will help build the field’s future, and we can all learn from what they are thinking now. The presentation will begin with a short history of the field of engineering education. The speaker will contribute to the discussion and provide some thoughts on a wide array of opportunities for engineering educators.

Bio:
Audeen W. Fentiman is an engineer, educator, and leader whose five-decade career has spanned academia, industry, government, and higher education administration. She is Purdue’s Crowley Family Professor Emerita having retired in August 2025. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, she taught in West Virginia before entering nuclear engineering at Ohio State University in 1976, where she completed her M.S. and Ph.D.—the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from OSU. Before academia, she worked for Battelle Memorial Institute and later at the Department of Energy’s Mound Laboratories, where she focused on nuclear materials, radioactive waste, and environmental issues. Returning to Ohio State, she led efforts to modernize engineering education, chaired the Nuclear Engineering Program—the first woman in the U.S. to do so—directed the interdisciplinary Environmental Science Graduate Program, and contributed to hands-on, team-based first-year engineering courses. In 2006, she joined Purdue University as a professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Interdisciplinary Programs, where she launched mentoring programs, graduate committees, and new degree programs including in environmental and interdisciplinary engineering. In 2015 she became Crowley Family Professor in Engineering Education; she also served as interim head of Purdue’s School of Engineering Education, and played a key role in developing online and hybrid graduate programs in engineering education. Fentiman was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Nuclear Society, and in 2025 was honored as a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. 

Read Audeen Fentiman Reflects on a 50-Year Journey in Engineering and Education