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Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is a dean and a professor of engineering at Campbell Univer- sity. Carpenter was originally born in Corsicana, Texas, and later grew up in Arkansas, Carpenter spent a large portion of her life in Louisiana. She later graduated with a bach- elor’s in mathematics from Louisiana Tech University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State University(LSU). In 1989, as an alma mater of Louisiana Tech she joined her university as a teaching assistant.She spent 26 years refining in leadership and com- munication skills, her first leadership position as director of the College of Engineering and Science, and later as the associate dean of undergraduate studies. Her position at Louisiana Tech would prepare her to become founding dean of the school of engineering at Campbell University.[4]

Academic Career

Jenna was an Alumni Federation Fellow at Louisiana State University, where she re- ceived her Ph.D. in Mathematics, under the guidance of Robert Perlis. Her studies and work focused on quadratic forms over number fields. She has been a faculty member at Louisiana Tech since 1989, where she spent ten years as the head of the engineering department and is now in her sixth year as associate dean.[2] Carpenter started off with a major in Biomedical Engineering, but received almost no encouragement and very poor advising her freshman year, even though she was a straight A student. During the spring of her freshman year, the Mathematics Department offered her a full tuition scholar- ship. The Mathematics Faculty were interested in Carpenter, so she changed her major from Biomedical Engineering to Mathematics with a Statistics-Math-Engineering Minor. She took statistics, operations research and a senior-level biomedical engineering con- trols course, along with the standard mathematics degree requirements. During her Ph.D studies her dissertation, ”Finiteness theorems for forms over global fields”, was published and is available to view at the LSU website[5]

Awards and Honors

Carpenter has served on a number of MAA committees, including the 2014 CUPM Cur- riculum Guide Steering Committee, CRAFTY, the Committee on Consultants, and the Committee on Professional Development. She was the Louisiana-Mississippi Section Gov- ernor from 2010 – 2013 and the recipient of the Section Teaching Award in 2004. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and was invited in 2011 to participate in a meeting at the White House focused on women and girls in STEM fields. [2] Carpenter is a member of the U.S. Engineering Deans Council Executive Com- mittee, where she co-chairs the Undergraduate Experience Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Global Engineering Deans Council. She is chairing the Pilot Program Ad-Hoc Committee on the Gulf Scholars Program for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Carpenter served for seven years as chair of the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering

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Education and an Engineering Program Evaluator for ABET. She is a past president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for the American Society for Engineering Education, and past first vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. Carpenter has a TED Talk which is titled as: “Engineering: Where are the Girls and Why aren’t They Here?” She was awarded the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2019. In October 2015, Dreambox Learning named Carpenter one of its 10 Women in STEM Who Rock. [1]

References

[1] https://directory.campbell.edu/people/jenna-carpenter/

[2] https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/jenna-carpenter [3] https://www.gedcouncil.org/members-sponsors/jenna-carpenter [4] https://www.abet.org/spotlight-jenna-carpenter/

[5] https://ethw.org/First-Hand

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