Meet the Engineering Entrepreneurship team
Mindy Zarske is a Teaching Professor with the Integrated Design Engineering program. With over two decades of teaching experience, Dr. Zarske leads engineering design across a range of courses. She was awarded the Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Education Award in 2019 and the John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award in 2020 from CU Boulder's College of Engineering & Applied Science.
Karen Crofton, Stephen M. Dunn Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship & ESCEND®, joined the College of Engineering and Applied Science in September 2020 as entrepreneur-in-residence. She brings a wealth of experience as an investor in data and financial technology startups, a former principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute dedicated to the transformation of energy systems, an intrapreneur at Air Products & Chemicals, and a lecturer at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.