Jacqueline A. El Sayed

Jacqueline El-Sayed is the chief academic officer for the American Society for Engineering Education. Under El-Sayed‘s leadership, her sector has led national initiatives, ASEE’s strategic direction and generated new value-added products, services and revenue streams including over $50M in external funding. El-Sayed has leadership experience with the entire pipeline of engineering education and most recently served as the chief academic officer and vice president for academic affairs at Marygrove College. She is a professor emerita of mechanical engineering and served on the faculty at Kettering University for 18 years, eventually earning the position of associate provost and associate vice president for academic affairs. In addition to El-Sayed’s work in academia, she has served in industry and government. She is a four-time gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan Truck Safety Commission and, as commissioner, served as chair for two terms. El-Sayed began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized in higher education as both an American Council on Education fellow and a New Leadership Academy fellow. As an ACE fellow, El-Sayed was placed at Harvey Mudd College as a member of the president’s cabinet, visited over 30 campuses and completed a national benchmark study on experiential education.

The study’s recommendations were then implemented at her home institution. El-Sayed served on the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education for 10 years. Currently, she serves as an international director on the SME Board of Directors, on the Women in Engineering ProActive Network Board of Directors, on the ACE Fellows Board of Directors and on the Advancement Committee for the Society for College and University Planning.