Kathryn Schulte Graham

### Occupation

Teaching Professor and Associate Director, First Year Engineering ProgramAffiliated Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering

## **Early life**

Kathryn Schulte Graham had done her high schooling from Lenape High School situated in New Jersey which was from 1995-1999. She further pursued her passion of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University pursuing Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering which was from 1999-2004. Following this, she had completed her doctorate degree at the Columbia Engineering in New York City pursuing her Phd degree in Civil Engineering in the year 2008. Completing her doctorate she further pursued Civil Engineering by securing the M.Ed degree in Civil Engineering in the year 2011.

## Career

### Engineering Intern

Kathryn Graham started her career with an Engineering Internship at the Remmington and Vernick Engineers located in New Jersey. She worked as an intern for a period of 5 months where she assisted in environmental permitting and field supervision. Her main projects included a Super Fund and involved gasoline, hazardous material spills and soil delineation.

### Research Assistant

In the year 2004, Kathryn Graham joined the Columbia University as a Research Assistant for a span of 4 years. She was primarily in charge of the projects and student research assistants at the Heffner Hydrology Laboratory. Even study direction and design, quality assurance, and data analysis fell under her purview. She even worked together on a research effort with the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Sciences. Control research team communications and the execution of group decisions.

### Civil Engineer

Kathryn Graham joined the company Viridian Energy and Environmental, LLP in the year 2008 for a period of 7 months. In this span of tenure, for a variety of construction projects, including the Hunter College School of Social Work, Carnegie Hall, Stamford Magnet School, and Columbia Nursing School, she advised the clients on the procedures and specifications for green building design and coordinated the submission for LEED certification. She was primarily responsible for reviewing architectural drawings and construction specification documentation, coordinating contractor material submissions, and writing documentation reports outlining 'green building' features and/or energy-saving techniques for potential and future building tenants.

## Northeastern University

### Advance Program Manager

In the year 2009, Kathryn Graham joined the Northeastern University where she managed the day-to-day operations of the Northeastern ADVANCE IT program; organize and plan activities and events for a variety of audiences; coordinate a team or professors and administrators and manage an office staff that includes postdoctoral research associates and graduate students; interface routinely with vendors.

She Develop and implement surveys with the ADVANCE team and the collection and management of datasets including documentation of survey results with the Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Affirmative Action and Diversity and maintained an effective budget oversight according to multimillion dollar NSF grant proposal.
She even develop and implement marketing for the ADVANCE program that includes a web presence, pamphlets, and monthly newsletter that is consistent with Northeastern University branding.

### Teaching Professor

In the year 2011, Kathryn started her teaching profession at the Northeastern University where she taught the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first-year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is even the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award. She currently focuses on educational research and advocating for service-learning in the engineering classroom.

### Associate Director of First Year Engineering

Along with her teaching profession, Kathryn Graham also became the Associate Director of First Year Engineering at the Northeastern University. Here she worked closely the Director of First-Year Engineering to develop the direction of the first-year program and manage administrative operations for the department, including the FYELIC and coordinated the scheduling of 30+ courses for the First-Year Engineering Program.

## Publications

Original Publication
 Evaluating Student Success in a Pre-college General Engineering Program | 2020