Dr. Jenna Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University in North Carolina. A national expert on innovative STEM education and success of women in STEM, she regularly speaks around the country. She has a TEDx talk (“Engineering:  Where are the girls and why aren’t they here?”) and has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, US News and World Report, BigBeacon Radio, DreamBox Learning, Scholastic Instructor Magazine, American Way Magazine, SWE Magazine, ASEE Prism Magazine, and MAA’s Focus Magazine, Math Horizons and College Math Journal. She has attended national STEM events such as the White House Science Fair, White House Champions for Change, and USA Mathematics Olympiad Banquets. She has received over $4.3 million in federal funding and authored over 130 publications and presentations. 

Carpenter is Steering Committee Chair and member of the Dean’s Executive Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program; an ABET Program Evaluator; and Past President of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network.  She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and past ASEE Vice President. Currently she chairs the ASEE Long Range Planning Committee and is a Co-Chair Elect for the ASEE Undergraduate Experience Committee.

Carpenter is co-Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation grant on Professional Development Emphasizing Data-Centered Resources and Pedagogies for Instructors of Undergraduate Introductory Statistics. Carpenter is Immediate Past First Vice-President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and chairs the MAA Council on the Profession and co-chairs the mathematical societies Joint Committee on Women.