Magdalini Lagoudas
Executive Director of Industry and Non-Profit Partnerships and Instructional Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University
Magdalini Lagoudas is an engineering educator dedicated to advancing student success through industry partnership, innovation, and experiential learning. She serves as Executive Director of Industry and Non-Profit Partnerships and Instructional Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, where she forges connections among students, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations to create meaningful, real-world learning experiences. She leads efforts to streamline industry engagement with academic programs, including sponsored capstone projects, and oversees the Engineering Project Showcase every semester, bringing together more than 2,000 graduating seniors and over 300 industry guests. Her broader initiatives include the AggiE_Challenge program supporting multidisciplinary undergraduate research, mentoring collaborations with NASA, Amazon, and Apple, and contributions to the Southwest I-Corps Hub. With more than three decades at Texas A&M, Lagoudas has held a wide range of leadership and academic roles. She has taught in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology, led college-wide recruitment and retention initiatives, and served as Associate Director of the Space Engineering Research Center, where she oversaw structural analysis for multiple payloads, including StarNav I, launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Her team launched Aggies Invent, and as Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded I-Corps Site, led efforts to support 264 teams with training on customer discovery and minimum viable product. Lagoudas holds a Master of Science from Lehigh University and a diploma from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received the 2023 Isadore T. Davis Award for excellence in collaboration of engineering education and industry by the American Society for Engineering Education.