She leads the first-year engineering instructional operations group, is an instructor for first-year engineering and multidisciplinary coursework, and was recently appointed director-designate for the undergraduate Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and Multidisciplinary Engineering program. With over 20 years of industrial work experience, and supportive of her academic roles, Mary actively leads academic outreach to industrial firms to develop in-classroom, project-based, active learning through identification of “real life”, in-context problem scenarios.