PhD student Caitlyn Simonds has joined the Engineering Education Collaborative. She will be analyzing data collected as part of a project on diversity and inclusion in engineering. Caitlyn is a second-year grad student in Mechanical Engineering at UF. She grew up here in Gainesville and also did her undergrad here, so she is a Gator through and through. She discovered Engineering Education by accident last year and never turned back. It’s the intersection of the two things she loves most: engineering and teaching. Her goal is to eventually be able to make a positive difference in young engineers’ educational experiences. In her free time, she loves to cross-stitch, play video games, and read sci-fi novels.