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More students abandon engineering school than graduate, and a growing body of evidence suggests they leave engineering because they feel unwelcome.

°­²¹³Ù³ó±ð°ù¾±²Ô±ðÌý³Ò´Ç´Ç»å³¾²¹²Ô, who received a PhD in Technology, Media & Society in 2015 from the ATLAS Institute, is with a University of Colorado Denver research group spearheading an effort to help students "from all walks of life" feel welcome in engineering. The project, Broadening Participation in Engineering, received a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to support a three-year faculty learning community within ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Denver's College of Engineering, Design and Computing.

Goodman's PhD research focused on using both quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize transformative experiences in higher education, particularly in STEM disciplines. She is an assistant professor/associate director at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Denver's InWorks, an innovation initiative of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½Â Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus where creators, thinkers, designers and makers collaborate "to solve humanity’s most pressing problems."