Stephanie is past president of the American Society for Engineering Education, and she has served two terms on the IFEES Executive Committee. For the last decade, she has been actively involved in the Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education, serving as an international partner, teaching certification cluster leader, and IFEES representative.

Stephanie leads Rowan’s Revolutionizing Engineering Diversity organizational change initiative, funded through NSF’s Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) Program. She is on Rowan’s ADVANCE team for organizational change to promote intersectional gender equity in STEM, and she leads ASEE’s national initiative to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in engineering, both funded by NSF.

Stephanie’s contributions to engineering education have been recognized with numerous national and international awards. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) with several teaching awards such as the National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the Quinn Award for experiential learning. She received the highest award from the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), the Nikola Tesla Award for outstanding achievements in engineering pedagogy. She received AIChE’s national award for Service to Chemical Engineering Education. Stephanie was the 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).