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Janet Tsai is an instructor who did her graduate work at CU Boulder while teaching. Her research emphasizes engineering education and project-based learning.

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, she never felt there were gender-specific societal roles placed on her by her...

Professor Hope Michelsen joined the CU Boulder faculty just over a year and a half ago. She is an associate professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on soot from flames and atmosphere and their effect on the environment.

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 Colorado Boulder since 2017. Throughout her time, she has focused on research involving space and aviation biomedical issues...

We all know the drive to CU Boulder’s campus from the south: the beautiful view of the Flatirons as we’re driving up U.S. 36. This was the exact drive that made Rachel Cox realize that Boulder would be her home for a long time.

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 was fascinated to learn about the multiple dimensions of chemical engineering, especially those...

Rhonda Hoenigman is the associate dean for undergraduate education for the College of Engineering and Applied Science and a computer science senior instructor at CU Boulder. No one would ever guess her undergraduate degree is in journalism.

Penina Axelrad is a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.