Community Leaders
Susan Lord
Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering
Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering
University of San Diego
E-mail: slord@sandiego.edu
Dr. Lord’s teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, service-learning, feminist pedagogy, lifelong learning, and engineering student persistence. She is an ASEE Fellow and has served as President of the IEEE Education Society, General Co-Chair of Frontiers in Education (FIE), and Director of the ASEE Education and Research Methods (ERM) Division. Dr. Lord is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education and was the 2011 National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) fellow. She and her research colleagues have received the Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education,IEEE Transactions in Education best paper award, and the WEPAN Betty Vetter Award for Research. Dr. Lord earned her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Jill Nelson
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Mason University
E-mail: jnelson@gmu.edu
Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice University in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is also active in engineering education research. Funded by the National Science Foundation, she leads a project focused on designing a long-term faculty development framework to broaden the use of evidence-based instructional innovations in engineering classrooms. In 2012, Dr. Nelson participated in the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Program.Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ASEE, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.