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completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also the President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. As the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship, Ms. Jordan has agreed to seek an engineering faculty position upon completion of her Ph.D. degree. She is also the recipient of a GEM Fellowship. Tammy Haut Donahue obtained earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis where she received the Allen Marr Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Haut Donahue was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Orthopedic at Pennsylvania State University before joining the faculty at Michigan Technological University in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics.

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Creativity has been studied extensively since 1956 when the NSF sponsored the first national research conference on creativity (Taylor, 1962).Within engineering education, one often hears the call for the development of creativity in engineering students. As part of the IDEAS grant (DUE-0836861), we examined the relationship between domain specific hypothetical challenges and opportunities, and engineering students' self-reported attitudes and behavioral intentions designed to measure creative self-efficacy in engineering. Our concept of creative self-efficacy in engineering was designed to assess one's confidence in their ability to be creative within the engineering domain. Using factors analysis procedures, we have identified four factors that appear to be novel indicators of creative self-efficacy in engineering:Cognitive Approaches, Cognitive Challenges, Cognitive Preparedness, and Impulsivity in problem solving.

and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in engineering education at the Ohio State University. She is a former GEM Doctoral Fellow and King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellow. Her research experience includes engineering for sustainability, and she is currently studying engineering self-efficacy of minority students at predominantly white institutions.