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EPA's "New Face" in Engineering
(April, 2003) National Engineer's Week 
recently named Dr. Diana Bauer, a project officer in EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), a "New Face in Engineering." During her two-and-a-half years in NCER, Dr. Bauer developed an approach to environmental protection that encourages the links between engineering, natural systems, and social sciences. In its "New Faces" feature for the week of February 16-22, the magazine said Dr. Bauer "has crafted a research framework for environmental sustainability research, integrating engineering with ecological, public health, economic and social visions." National Engineers Week continued: "The young engineers on these pages are having an impact on how we live and do business. They are engineers who have been out of engineering school only two to five years, but we will be affected by what they do now and in the future."
Dr. Bauer received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and a Masters degree in engineering from Princeton University in 1988. Her graduate and postdoctoral work focused on green design and manufacturing in the automotive and electronics industries. Dr. Bauer came to EPA as a AAAS fellow. During her fellowship she focused on interdisciplinary sustainability, including development of a research framework for this subject. Dr. Bauer became a member of the NCER staff at the end of her fellowship, and now participates in government and academic groups developing research agendas for Sustainable Materials, Environmentally Benign Manufacturing, and Science and Technology for Sustainability. Dr. Bauer also provides support for NCER's Technology for a Sustainable Environment (TSE) research grants under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. These TSE grants currently focus on quantifying the environmental benefits of green chemistry and engineering approaches.
Before joining EPA, Dr. Bauer served as a visiting researcher in Japan, technical editor in Taiwan, and English teacher in China. She was also an engineer at two firms in Waltham, Mass. During her first two years in NCER, she was a fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is currently managing projects that study the use of science for environmental policy decision making and research needs in social sciences and the environment.
Additional information on the STAR program can be found at the National Center for Environmental Research. For more information, contact Estella Waldman at Waldman.Estella@epa.gov.