Dr. Jenna Carpenter

Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Founding Dean and Professor, School of Engineering at Campbell University, and President-Elect of the Mathematical Association of America. She was appointed last year to President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council Subcommittee on Expanding the Workforce. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Global Engineering Deans Council. A national expert on innovative STEM curricula and inclusion in STEM fields, she is a Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Carpenter received the 2023 ABET Claire Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion and the 2019 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. She is a Fellow of ASEE and a 2023 ASEE Hall of Fame Inductee. She was co-recipient of the 2022 National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Engineering Technology Education for her role as a co-founder of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She received the 2018 Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) Founder’s Award and is a Past President of WEPAN.

Currently: Dean, School of Engineering, Campbell University

Formerly: Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, College of Engineering & Science, Louisiana Tech University.

Education: (1) 2017 – Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, Harvard, (2) 1989 – Ph.D. Mathematics, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, (3) 1983 – B.S. Mathematics, Louisiana Tech University.