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Bev Louie is the Director of the Women in Engineering Program and is a Senior Instructor and Coordiator of Cooperative Education in the Chemical Engineering Department. She teaches
GEEN 1400
(Engineering Projects) and CHEN 3130 (Chemical Engineering
Junior Lab).
Bev is a CU grad (BS 1977, MS 1983 in ChE) and a native of Colorado Springs (Click here
for Bev's Curriculum Vitae). She has a
Ph.D. from Oxford University, England (1993). She has experience in oil
and gas and the power industry, working in water treatment process
engineering and plant equipment trouble-shooting and design. She spent a
dozen years as a research engineer for the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in Boulder.
In 1995 Bev was lured into
teaching several courses in the Chemical Engineering Department, and
loved the interaction with students. In the WIEP, Bev is working on
increasing the number of female students studying engineering at
CU-Boulder. She has expanded the number of K-12 outreach opportunities
for female engineering students to encourage younger girls to consider
engineering careers. She is working on broadening the peer and
professional mentoring programs, providing more professional development
opportunities, and developing more scholarships for female students. Bev
welcomes your questions on resources and opportunities available in the
WIEP.
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