University of St. Thomas

Smith holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.  She has over 12 years industrial experience in R&D, manufacturing and technical service working for Dupont and 3M.  At Dupont she was involved with development and scale up of metal hydride storage systems.  At 3M she developed a line of nano-particle abrasives for the fiber optics market, provided technical support to the fiber optics and computer industries in abrasive applications, and did manufacturing development and scale up for liquid pavement marking materials.  For the past three years she has taught courses in engineering, physics and math at Century Community College.

At St. Thomas, she teaches ENGR 150 Introduction to Engineering and is involved with the STEPS camp outreach program.