Profile

Jacqueline El-Sayed is chief executive officer of Intentional Design Group LLC and the Intentional Design Institute. An engineer, educator, and global speaker, she brings leadership experience across industry, academia, government, and nonprofit organizations.

She previously served as CEO of SAE International and the American Society for Engineering Education. She joined ASEE as chief academic officer, where she drove significant growth through external funding and alignment with new business innovation. Earlier, she served as chief academic officer and vice president for academic affairs at Marygrove College and as associate provost and associate vice president for academic affairs at Kettering University.

El-Sayed began her career as an engineer with General Motors Truck Group. She has received numerous honors, including ACE Fellow, NLA Fellow, ASEE Fellow, induction into the ASEE Hall of Fame, ASEE and SCUP Distinguished Service Awards, and designation as professor emerita of mechanical engineering.

She has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on externally funded projects totaling more than $60 million. These include founding principal investigator roles for the NSF Defining and Building the Engineering Workforce of the Future initiative, the Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the CISE Research Expansion series. She also served as co-principal investigator for the NSF Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship, Engineering Mindset Blueprint and the Vertical/Horizontal Manufacturing Integration series.

El-Sayed is a four-time gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan Truck Safety Commission and served two terms as chair. She also chaired the Driver’s Education Advisory Committee and the Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee for the Michigan Department of State, contributing to the development of new legislation.

She has an extensive record of board service and currently serves on the MIT TechAMP, WEPAN, and SiriusB IQ AI boards.