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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder since 2017. Throughout her time, she has focused on research involving space and aviation biomedical issues...

Rachel Cox

Choose to Challenge: Rachel Cox

March 7, 2021

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.

Kristi Anseth

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March 7, 2021

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

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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: 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder.

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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...

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.

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.

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