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Assistant Professor Laurel Hind began teaching at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the spring of 2020. Though her career began with and ultimately led to engineering, her educational path has allowed her to focus on biological and immunological interests.

Professor Kristi Anseth discovered chemical engineering in college. She had grown up knowing few engineers but enjoyed chemistry and mathematics in high school. Upon starting college, chemical engineering was recommended to her as a major, and she

Allison Anderson, the 2020 Young Professional Engineer of the Year (Rocky Mountain AIAA), has been a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder since 2017. 

Daria Kotys-Schwartz’s engineering story started when she was incredibly young. Her parents were first-generation Americans who were big on education and taught her that she could be whatever she wanted to be. As one of three girls,

JoAnn Silverstein Is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder. She is a professional engineer, and her work focuses on water and wastewater treatment process analysis.

Angela Thieman Dino is a senior instructor in the Engineering Leadership Program. She pulls from her experience and background as an anthropologist and integrates the lessons she has learned into her teaching, specifically focusing on the connection

Stephanie Bryant is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and has been a part of this university since 2005. She currently serves as the associate director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program and has recently been elected to be the director starting in July. 

I was able to speak with our very own Malinda Zarske with the Engineering Plus Program. In the classroom, she is the type of professor that does more than teaching you what the book states. She is a professor that loves to get to know her students. Yet the path for Zarske was not always leading to engineering. 

As a sophomore in high school, Julie Steinbrenner really had never heard of engineering before.

Q: Can you tell me about your journey as an engineer, and people who have been mentors?A: I was around engineering things as a child, but I didn't label it as engineering. I love math and science, but I also loved everything else—poetry, reading.