Ann Kenimer

Dr. Ann Kenimer is the Chief Accreditation Officer at ABET, bringing over three decades of academic and leadership experience to her role. Prior to joining the ABET Headquarters staff in 2024, Kenimer spent over 20 years as an ABET volunteer serving as a program evaluator, team chair, executive committee member and officer in the Engineering Accreditation Commission. 

Kenimer is also professor emerita and associate provost emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held various leadership positions before retiring. Over her 30-year career as a faculty member at Texas A&M, she held several college- and university-level positions including associate dean and interim executive associate dean in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, associate dean of faculties, interim dean and chief operating officer at Texas A&M University at Qatar, and associate provost for undergraduate studies. 

In addition to her status as fellow of ABET and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and registered Professional Engineer in Texas, Kenimer has received numerous teaching awards, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor award. 

Kenimer earned her Ph.D. in agricultural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, following her M.S. and B.S. degrees in agricultural engineering from Virginia Tech.