Julie Steinbrenner

Presenter: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Disability Accommodations within a Large Mechanical Engineering Department

Julie Steinbrenner joined the faculty in mechanical engineering at CU Boulder in 2012. Her background is in energy systems and the design and analysis of experimental thermal-fluid systems. She has worked in laboratories in the U.S. and Europe, studying phenomena ranging from solar-thermo-chemistry to fuel cells to phase-change printing technologies. In addition to mentoring students during their senior design projects, she teaches courses in fluids, heat transfer and thermodynamics with a focus on developing the students’ conceptual understanding and problem-solving methodologies through active learning techniques.