![]() ![]() On the personal side, my family did not have a lot of disposable income, so after doing the 3 years at CMC, I had to take time off and plan to save enough money to pay for the 2-year portion of the dual degree at Arizona State University where I had in-state tuition. So I had to pursue every tutoring resource that I could. And while I’d taken physics in high school, I didn’t seem to have the same background and preparation as some of my fellow ME students. I went from being one of the top students in my high school to feeling like I had to compete with many talented students. I really give the program all the credit as my launching pad.īut that said, those years had some highs and lows for me both personally and academically, and some of the struggles that I had are probably familiar to others across the 5Cs. My high school science seminar teacher introduced me to this program, and it was a good fit. The ME program was a 3-2 program where you did your first 3 years at Claremont McKenna College focused on your science, math, and liberal arts preparation, and then 2 years studying engineering at a partner institution. I was pursuing the dual-degree management engineering program at CMC. ![]() Mudd had a reputation as a very distinctive college for STEM that was a little quirky - I do remember walking around Mudd’s campus, captivated by the unicyclists. When I was a student at CMC, I was very focused on my work, and my knowledge of the other schools was pretty limited to walking around the campuses or eating in the other dining halls. I’ve said to some colleagues that life rhymes, so to be able to return to Claremont now feels like a welcome home. Q: How was your undergraduate experience at CMC? What were your thoughts on Mudd when you were a Claremont student? ![]() So, being in academia and teaching is a part of my DNA. My great-grandma started teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in 1906, and we’ve had teachers in every generation since. But now that my daughters are older, they can also use that experience to explain the difference between equitable versus equal treatment - if we had hidden all the eggs very hard, then the youngest wouldn’t have had a fair game.Īnother story that I often tell is that I’m a fourth-generation educator. This was a homespun version of capacity planning, which is an industrial engineering and systems concept to match skills for capabilities and capacity. The oldest had colors that were well-hidden, the middle daughter had colors that were a little easier to find, and the youngest had colors that were practically just out and open on the lawn. If the egg was not their color, then they were just to keep quiet and move along. If they saw an egg with their color, they could put it in their basket. A story that I tell is that when the girls were little, for Easter egg hunts, they each had specific colors of the plastic eggs that they had to find. My husband and I both did our Ph.D.s in this area at the same time, and we have three daughters who are all adults now and had the great fortune of being parented using systems principles. I went on to be formally trained in industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan. They were things like, “Why are the big planes over there and the little planes all over there?” And, “How does the suitcase get from the sidewalk to the correct plane?” These are essentially systems questions. But my questions for him weren’t about the planes or about flight. And he absolutely loved flying - we would sometimes go to the airport on his days off. My dad was a pilot he was a captain in the Air Force, then he flew commercially for Eastern Airlines. I’ve been an industrial engineer since I was about eight years old - although I didn’t know that was what it was called at the time. My academic discipline is industrial engineering. I appreciate that you are helping me get introduced to the Mudd community. Q: How would you introduce yourself to the Mudd community? Read on to learn more about Mudd’s new president! Nembhard to welcome her to Mudd and get to know her better. Her research is widely published and encompasses many fields, from medical manufacturing to co-curricular STEM education. Nembhard has been extensively involved in academic leadership at all levels, as a professor, director, and dean. in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Nembhard is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College, where she took part in the 3-2 Management Engineering program with Arizona State University, and she completed her Ph.D. She will succeed President Maria Klawe, who has served as president for 17 years.ĭr. Harriet Nembhard will officially become Harvey Mudd College’s sixth president. ![]()
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