Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She currently serves as the Graduate Program Chair for the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program. Dr. Bekki joined the faculty in 2008 after completing her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at ASU, and she teaches courses in the engineering and manufacturing engineering programs as well as programs in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program. Her research interests include understanding the experiences of women doctoral students in science and engineering programs, the application of educational data mining/learner analytics, student persistence, STEM graduate student experiences, modeling and analysis of complex manufacturing systems, and the development of new discrete event simulation methodologies.