Odesma Dalrymple, PhD

Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
- PhD, Purdue University
- MENG, Morgan State University
- BS, Morgan State University
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Dalrymple is a proponent of education equity as a key mechanism for ensuring just social growth and development. As a trained engineering education scholar, Dr. Dalrymple’s professional and service work is focused on transforming engineering education and its public image; making it more inclusive, and socially connected. This mission is partially actualized through her research that seeks to identify, develop and evaluate tools, techniques and pathways that can facilitate deep learning and sustained interest in engineering and other STEAM fields, particularly for populations that have been historically under-represented in the STEM workforce in the United States. Towards the aforementioned goal she pursues the following lines of research:
- Exploring the wealth of embodied knowledge, skills and practices that under-represented/marginalized communities can bring to bear on engineering practice. This work is focused on developing asset-based engineering learning experiences for middle and high school populations that predominantly comprise students of color from low-socioeconomic neighborhoods, and creating guides on how engineers can collaboratively work with communities on grass roots socio-technical challenges.
- Transfer of engineering design practices in K-12 teachers: from professional development to classroom practice. The Next Generation Science Standards now incorporate engineering practices in the teaching and learning of science at the K-12 levels. In response to this change, Dr. Dalrymple’s work focuses on pre- and in-service teacher professional development (PD) in engineering design, and the evaluation of how middle and high school science teachers / informal STEM facilitators, transfer their understanding of engineering practice, gained through the PD, to the learning they facilitate with their students.
Dr. Dalrymple currently serves as the faculty lead of the Engineering Exchange for Social Justice. She has also co-developed and co-maintained three successful STEAM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, arts and math) education outreach programs: STEAM TEAM Academy, the STEAM Youth and Community Conference, and STEAM Labs. Dr. Dalrymple holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and a MEng in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering, both from Morgan State University.
Scholarly Work
- With Mejia, A., Chen, D., and Lord, S., "Revealing the Invisible: Conversations about -Isms and Power Relations in Engineering Courses," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.
- With Gray, S., Tesfaye, M., and Daryanani, R., "An experiential approach to understanding the engineering design process," University of San Diego Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference, San Diego, CA, 2016.
- With Bansal, S. and Gaffar, A., "Building Faculty Expertise in Outcomes-based Education," NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium (EnFUSE), Washington, 2016.
- With Daryanani, R., "Using an Engineering Design Experience in the 6th Grade Curriculum to Promote Interest and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math," University of San Diego Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference, San Diego, CA, 2016.
- With Bansal, S., "Repository of Instructional and Assessment Techniques for OBE-Based Instructional Module Development System," Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), vol. 29, pp. 93-100, 2016.
- With Jordan, S. and Pereira, N., "The impact of design swapping on student design sketch quality," International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1984-1998, 2016.
- With Henry, L., Bridge, J., Henderson, M., and Chavez, M., "Key factors around ocean-based power in the Caribbean region, via Trinidad and Tobago," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 50, pp. 160-175, 2015.
- With Bansal, S. and Bansal, A., "Outcome-based Education Model for Computer Science Education," vol. 28, no. 2, 3, pp. 113-121, 2015.
- With Sears, D. and Evangelou, D., "The Relative Pedagogical Value of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) Activities," Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 6, 2013.
- With Sears, D. and Evangelou, D., "The Motivational and Transfer Potential of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble Activities," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 741-759, 2011.
Office Hours
Section 02R | |||
1/25 - 5/14 | W F | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | TBD - TBD |