The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) seeks to "support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."

Godwin focuses on how students’ underlying attitudes and mindsets, defined as latent diversity, impact how they experience the culture of engineering and negotiate their identities as engineers. This research is important because it has significant implications for developing an engineering (and more broadly STEM) workforce rich in talent and capable of adapting to the changing engineering landscape. Her current research programs significantly expand traditional definitions of diversity to understand how individual student differences impact students’ engineering identities and feelings of belonging within engineering.