She joined the college in 2014. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the electrical engineering technology program at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and a postdoctoral researcher at the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden (division of combustion physics). Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Dr. Paciaroni was an optical engineer at the NASA Langley Research Center—where she worked on the space shuttle simulator upgrade team—and as a systems engineer in CAE’s flight simulation division. She was selected for the U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in 2015, a program sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.