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Distinguished Teaching Award

Kaitlin Mallouk
Assistant Professor of Experiential Engineering Education
Rowan University

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Biography

Kaitlin Mallouk is an engineering educator and researcher who is dedicated to creating impactful learning experiences by valuing her students as individuals and designing curriculum that employs evidence-based practices. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between her undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Dr. Mallouk worked for two years for Merck & Co., where she supported the scale-up of the purification process for the HPV vaccine, Gardasil™.

Dr. Mallouk has been a faculty member since September 2013 when she joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Rowan University as a tenure-track instructor. She subsequently took a full-time appointment in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) department and was tenured and promoted to Assistant Professor. In her roles at Rowan, Dr. Mallouk has been responsible for teaching and developing curriculum for Rowan’s multi-disciplinary design course sequence, First- and Second-Year Engineering Clinics, and mentoring upper-level students in small, research-focused projects. Her research in the areas of faculty development, entrepreneurial mindset, and diversity equity and inclusion has been funded by NSF and KEEN

Dr. Mallouk has been a member of ASEE since 2013 and found her professional home in the First-Year Programs Division (FPD), joining the Executive Board of FPD in 2016. She currently serves as the Past Chair of the division. She was the FPD Program Chair during the 2020 Virtual Conference and, in 2021, she spearheaded a major revision of the FPD Bylaws. She was also actively engaged in the First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) conference steering committee from 2017 – 2019 and served as Co-Chair of the 2018 FYEE Conference held at Rowan University.

Beyond the academy, Dr. Mallouk finds fulfillment in the adventure of parenting, long walks with her dog, and reading fiction.