Cultivating a Culture to Foster Engineering Identity

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her MS degree in Electrical Engineering and her PhD degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include micro-scale molecular gas dynamics, micro fluidics, and heat transfer applications in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and medical devices as well as autonomous vehicles and robotics. She also holds the patent for the continuous trace gas separator and several pending patents in autonomous vehicles and robotic testing apparatus. She is passionate about Engineering Education and experienced in developing inverted classroom lectures and facilitating students' learning through authentic engineering problems. She is currently the Co-PI for the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments grant awarded to the Mechanical Engineering department at Seattle University to study how the department culture changes can foster students' engineering identity with the long-term goal of increasing the representation of women and minority in the field of engineering. Kathleen E. Cook (Dr.)Kathleen Cook received her degree in music and education (B.M.E.) from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY in 1988 and her doctorate in social and personality psychology (Ph.D.) from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) with emphases in cognitive and educational psychology and a minor in quantitative methods in 2002. In 2002, she also started as an