Jacqueline El-Sayed is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for SAE International (SAEI), Performance Review Institute (PRI), Industry Technologies Consortia (ITC) which together are the Fullsight Group. She is a builder with leadership experience across industry, education, and government. Her previous role was CEO for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She joined ASEE as Chief Academic Officer driving growth and alignment across all professional services, leading new buisiness innovation and strategic operational plans. Before this, she served as Chief Academic Officer & Vice President for Academic Affairs at Marygrove College. She began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized as an ACE Fellow, NLA Fellow, and ASEE Fellow & Hall of Famer. She is a professor emerita of mechanical engineering and served on the faculty at Kettering University for 18 years, eventually earning the position of Associate Provost/Vice President.
She has served as PI or co-PI for multiple externally funded projects totaling $60+ MM, including serving as PI on the NSF Defining and Building the Engineering Workforce of the Future (FREE), the Engineering Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (eFellows), the ADVANCE Aligning Systems in Advancement of Faculty (KnowlEDGE) & the CISE Research Expansion program series and Co-PI on the NSF Engineering Mindset, the INCLUDES Engineering Plus, the IMACTS Mentoring Hub & Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship (IPERF).
In addition to her work in academia she has served in industry and government. She is a four-time gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan Truck Safety Commission and, as commissioner, served as chair for two terms. She also chaired the Driver's Education Advisory Committee and the Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee for the Michigan Department of State—work that resulted in new legislation for Michigan. She began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized in higher education as both an American Council on Education Fellow and a New Leadership Academy Fellow. Currently Dr. El-Sayed serves on the boards of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the American Council on Education (ACE) Council of Fellows, the Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN), and the Advancement Committee of the Society for College and University Planners (SCUP). She recently completed a tenure of 10 years as Trustee on the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education. She is married and has three adult children.