Climate Pathfinder: How Engineering Can Offer Solutions to Climate Resiliency

Karimah Preston is close to attaining her second degree in engineering. But when she first matriculated to North Carolina A&T University, where she would graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biological and biosystems engineering, she wasn’t considering engineering. “I’m a first-generation college student,” Preston said. “Growing up (in the south side of Chicago), we were exposed to a very limited number of careers, and engineering was not one of those.” As a child, however, she was keenly aware of the environmental disparities between her neighborhood in Chicago and the more…