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Choose to Challenge: Kayla Sprenger

March 7, 2021

Kayla Sprenger became an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020. She obtained her PhD at the University of Washington and completed her postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Angela Thieman Dino

Choose to Challenge: Angela Thieman Dino

March 7, 2021

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 between technology and culture. Thieman Dino on Torreys Peak Highlights Earned PhD in...

Allison Anderson

Choose to Challenge: Allison Anderson

March 7, 2021

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...

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Choose to Challenge: Angela Bielefeldt

March 7, 2021

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. The turning point was I...

Malinda Zarske

Choose to Challenge: Malinda Zarske

March 7, 2021

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.

Julie Steinbrenner

Choose to Challenge: Julie Steinbrenner

March 7, 2021

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

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Choose to Challenge: Penina Axelrad

March 7, 2021

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

Rhonda Hoenigman

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March 7, 2021

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.

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Choose to Challenge: Janet Tsai

March 7, 2021

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

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Choose to Challenge: Hope Michelsen

March 7, 2021

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.

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