2010 WEPAN Board of Directors

Stephanie G. Adams, PhD

Dr. Stephanie G. Adams joined VCU as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering in August of 2008.  Prior to that she was the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  From 2005-2007 she worked at the National Science Foundation as an IPA and a Science and Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Adams is an honor graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1988.  In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.  She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in August of 1998.  Her areas of concentration were Industrial Engineering and Management.  Her research interests include Team Effectiveness, Collaborative and Active Learning, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, and Quality Control and Management.  She has published a number of articles on the effective use of teams, as well as articles on issues related to mentoring students.  In 2003 she received the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support her goal of designing, developing and validating a model for the facilitation of effective teaming in the engineering classroom and for the enhancement of learning.