This blog post, originally intended to follow the progress of my current Electric Vehicle (EV) project, has evolved into a summary of EV projects spanning twenty years. I don’t claim to be an EV expert, but I do claim to...

“But that seems like such a guy job!” was my first response to the career aptitude test result that dared to suggest Biomedical Engineering as a career. Throughout high school, I had been fairly certain that a career in the...

Gender was never a differentiator or boundary in my home when I was growing up. We were all expected to help out with all chores and all family activities – dishes, cooking, cleaning, pets, yardwork … I was encouraged to...

On our building tour, we have a strange looking block of metal. It’s aluminum but with an interesting texture to its surface. I like to make a show of lifting the block with difficulty and handing it to someone I’m...

I had the coolest job in the world for a while. I helped assemble the International Space Station from one of the consoles in Mission Control as a senior member of the ISS electrical power flight controller team. A lot...