Engineering Profiles, December 2011

Earlier this month Clara Shih, CA G ’05, was elected to the Starbucks Board of Directors to serve on the Board’s nominating and corporate governance committee. Read more

Shih is co-founder and CEO of Hearsay Social, author of The Facebook Era, and developed the first business application for Facebook called Faceforce. At 29, she has also been listed on several watch lists for leaders under 40 years of age.

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High school physical science and honors physics teacher Chad Feiock uses real-world experiments and hands-on learning to engage students. Read more about a few of his recent experiments

Feicock has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and started off as an engineer, but needed more interaction with people. Now he is an award winning teacher. Having been named the 2011 Anderson High School teacher of the year.

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An engineering degree can lead to success in a variety of fields. Content for Engineers (CFE Media LLC) recently profiled Mariano Rodriguez and published a brief Q&A with the principal registered architect at exp Global Inc.

Rodriguez is a “science planner” with a detailed job description. In the article, he gives advice for future engineers and gives more details about his work.

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