STACY FIRTH

In her role as a lecturing faculty member, Dr. Firth focuses on Engineering education in grades K-12 and undergraduate Engineering and Chemical Engineering education. Her particular interest is topics surrounding Engineering education that is welcoming and supportive to all, sustainability in engineering, and process automation and control. She has developed an inclusive curriculum for a year-long Engineering exploration and projects course that is now taught in 57 Utah high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science educators to support their teaching of Engineering within K-12 classrooms. She has developed and implemented Sustainable Engineering curriculum, open to all within the Price College of Engineering and a senior-level projects laboratory course in the Chemical Engineering curriculum, giving students hands-on experience with the concepts she is teaching in their Process Control theory course.