A detailed agenda with room locations is available as a pdf here.

A map showing the meeting locations on campus is here.

We invite attendees to participate in any session marked with an asterisk* (in the Presenter column). To add names, please complete this form.

Day 1 - Mon. June 2, 2025

Theme: Mission-Aligned Scholarship in STEM and Beyond

Time Presenter Activity
8:00 Breakfast and Registration
8:45 Dean Kendra Sharp (SCU), Carlos Rivas (IAJES), Siddhartan Govindasamy (BC), Ed Maurer (SCU) Welcome
9:30 ALL Introductions
10:15 Dean Amit Shukla (Seattle U) Holistic Faculty Development at a Jesuit University
11:00 Break
11:15 Facilitator: Dean Amit Shukla (Seattle U) Panel: Mission-Engaged STEM Faculty Members: Stories from Diverse Perspectives
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Facilitator: Prof. Jenny Loertscher (Seattle U) Activity: Forging your own path to holistic faculty development
2:30 Break
3:00 ALL – Call for participants* Poster session: Mission based research and pedagogy
5:00 Break, Dinner

Day 2 - Tues. June 3, 2025

Theme: Mission-focused education and community engagement

Time Presenter Activity
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 ALL – Call for participants* Curricular reflective practices
10:00 ALL – Call for participants* Developing courses that reflect mission-focused education/Models of project-based learning in engineering
11:00 Break
11:30 ALL – Call for participants* Beyond Innovation: Tackling Humanitarian Engineering Challenges
12:30 IAJES/AJCU Lunch and Panel Discussion: community engagement
2:00 Break and walk to Forge Garden
2:30 Tour of Forge Garden and Solar Decathlon house
3:30 Tony Cortese, SCU Ignatian Center Examen - closing reflection
4:30 SCDI - third floor terrace