Soma Chakrabarti,Director (2014-2017)
President, International Association for Continuing Engineering Education
Soma is the Director of Center for Engineering and Interdisciplinary Professional Education and Associate Director of the Continuing Education Division at the University of Kansas. She provides strategic direction and programmatic leadership to engineering and interdisciplinary professional programs. She also directs the Center for International Continuing Professional Education at KU Continuing Education. She has taught chemical engineering and was an associate research engineer in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, all at the University of Kansas. Chakrabarti holds a doctorate in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Chakrabarti has been a member of Continuing Professional Development Division of ASEE since 2010 and has been a regular speaker at the CIEC and Annual ASEE conferences.