Dr. Christi Luks, a chemical engineering faculty member at Missouri S&T, is now president of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Luks’s term as president of the society began in June after its annual conference in Montreal, Canada. 
 
“I feel honored to serve as ASEE president because the organization’s mission to advance innovation, excellence and access at all levels of engineering education is something I truly believe in,” says Luks, a teaching professor and associate chair of Missouri S&T’s Linda and Bipin Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.  
 
“It’s important to me to represent educators who are dedicated to preparing the next generation of engineers, and I look forward to working together to strengthen engineering education.” 
 
Luks’s experience with ASEE dates to 1998 when she attended a conference hosted by the organization in Rolla. Over the past few decades, she has presented at and organized multiple ASEE events and has received several awards from the organization. She has previously served ASEE as president-elect, vice president for professional interest councils and vice president for member affairs. 
 
Unlike her predecessors, Luks takes on the president role a teaching-focused, untenured faculty member. 
 
“As a teaching professor, my greatest satisfaction comes from helping students grow both in their technical abilities and in their confidence,” she says. “Earlier in my career, being a teaching professor was a less common path, so I appreciate how much that has changed — and I’m proud that ASEE has chosen someone in this role to serve as president.” 
 
Luks joined the S&T faculty in 2014 as an associate teaching professor and advanced to teaching professor in 2019. Before coming to S&T, she was a faculty member at the University of Tulsa for over two decades. 
 
She earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Tulsa and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M.  
  
Luks is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and president of Omega Chi Epsilon, the national honor society for chemical engineering.  
  
For more information about Missouri S&T’s chemical and biochemical engineering programs, visit chbe.mst.edu.  

About Missouri S&T

Missouri University of Science and Technology is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,000 students located in Rolla, Missouri. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T offers over 100 degrees in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top public universities for salary impact, according to The Wall Street Journal. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.