­Dr. Ali Kerr has a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa. Prior to joining Colorado School of Mines she held two postdoctoral research roles. One as a Senior Researcher of Leadership and Executive Development at the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Another at Purdue University in both the Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Education departments. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. Her most recent projects have focused on developing engineering and science students’ relevant non-technical professional skills including leadership, creativity and ethical practice and presentation. Her dissertation research was a comprehensive evaluation of a professional ethics training program which utilizes expert-witness role-play for engineering education.