WIEP Staff

Bev Louie

Bev Louie is the Director of the Women in Engineering Program and is a Senior Instructor and Coordiator of Cooperative Education in the Chemical Engineering Department. She teaches GEEN 1400 (Engineering Projects) and CHEN 3130 (Chemical Engineering Junior Lab). Bev is a CU grad (BS 1977, MS 1983 in ChE) and a native of Colorado Springs (Click here for Bev's Curriculum Vitae or here for Bev’s homepage in Chemical Engineering). She has a Ph.D. from Oxford University, England (1993). She has experience in oil and gas and the power industry, working in water treatment process engineering and plant equipment trouble-shooting and design. She spent a dozen years as a research engineer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder. In 1995 she was lured into teaching several courses in the Chemical Engineering Department, and loved the interaction with students. In the WIEP, Bev is working on increasing the number of female students studying engineering at CU-Boulder. She has expanded the number of K-12 outreach opportunities for female engineering students to encourage younger girls to consider engineering careers. She is working on broadening the peer and professional mentoring programs, providing more professional development opportunities, and developing more scholarships for female students. Bev welcomes your questions on resources and opportunities available in the WIEP.

Paul Dorn
As Office Manager for the Multicultural and Women in Engineering Programs, Paul takes charge of a vast array of administrative tasks, including managing student assistants, granting copy codes and card access to the resource center, staff payroll, and much, much more. He serves as a liaison to other university departments and collaborates with university faculty and staff to create programs and environments conducive to learning experiences for undergraduate students. A master of detail, Paul considers himself a lifetime student and enjoys learning something new each day.