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Engineering Vols Help Girl Scouts “Think Like Engineers” for Badge Day

Betsy Chesnutt, lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals, worked with the Girl Scouts Beaver Creek Service Unit Leadership Team in August 2022 to organize a “Think Like an Engineer” Journey-in-a-Day for Cadette and Senior level girl scouts (grades 6 to 10). Scout leader Nicole Berkheimer contacted the college to connect for the event, and Chesnutt called for […]





Students Found Project BEAD to be a Real Gem of an Experience

The college’s Office of Engineering Diversity Programs collaborated with the Her Majesty Design firm and the Earth’s Core rock and bead retailer for bead-making activities that introduce women in high school and college students to the creative, interdisciplinary, and helping aspects of engineering.



Accolades: Taking Care of EF Business; Bachmann, Woodard Overdrive; Speaking the Scholarship Language

NE senior Amanda Bachmann won the Women in Nuclear Region II Leadership Award at the US Women in Nuclear Region II Conference held in Oak Ridge, April 10–12, topping two finalists in the professional sector.


Student and Faculty Contributions Honored at Council of Partners Banquet

“Engineering is a wonderful profession, allowing its practitioners to have tremendous impact on our families, communities, state, nation and global society,” said Dean. “This also places a significant dependency on engineers to get it right. This is a burden engineers must embrace, be humbled by their responsibilities and potential, and enjoy every minute.”