Olin College of Engineering, where she helped develop the curriculum, particularly the bioengineering program. She is an active researcher in engineering education, with a focus on gender and diversity issues, including areas such as academic self-confidence, identity, and development. She also studies biological materials. Dr. Chachra is spending the 2008-2009 academic year as visiting faculty at the University of Washington. A beneficiary of an NSF Research Opportunity Award, she is collaborating with researchers at the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching. Prior to joining Olin, she was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT (on a fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada). She received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto.