User:Rainbowblitz123R/Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg

= Early Life = Dalberg was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. She grew up amongst her 5 other siblings in a Lebanese community. She eventually went to the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She also has a master’s degree and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Dalberg majored in music therapy when she got into the University of Pittsburg. The reason why she majored in the course was because of the thought of music being therapeutic to people. But her heart always had room for math. She eventually graduated from the University of Pittsburg and got a degree in Electrical Engineering. Dalberg later went on to get a master’s degree and a Ph. D from North Carolina State University.

= Career =

= IBM = Teresa Dalberg has taken a multitude of jobs, mostly in higher education fields revolving around Engineering and Computer Science. She first worked at IBM in North Carolina after she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1984 to 1994, Dalberg worked for IBM as an engineer at the Research Triangle Park where she did a point-of-sale terminal. Part of her work was to operate on hardware and software and overlaying touch screens.

= UNC = She worked for IBM for a decade before she went to work as an assistant professor for the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina, also known as UNC. While she was working for UNC, she was in the Banking Systems division where she would make modules of something that would take pictures of paper checks. In North Carolina, she founded the company, STARS Computing Corps. She created STARS in the early 2000s while she was a professor at the College of Computing and Informatics.

The goal of STARS was to aid the country in a larger computing workforce. STARS used to be called the STARS alliance but now is a non-profit organization called STARS computing force. STARS helps students take on projects revolving around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). A few projects young students at STARS take on are developing robots or teaching game design.

STARS also has an annual conference at Dalberg’s next job, the Cooper Union called the STARS Celebration. This conference celebrates last year’s success of STARS and kicks off the projects of recent students of STARS. After working at UNC, Dalberg eventually changed careers again to work at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering as a Dean.

= The Cooper Union = Speaking of the Cooper Union, Dalberg worked as the chief academic officer at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York for two years. She ended up at the Cooper Union looking for a dean’s position. She was able to get the job by a search firm contacting her. After this, in 2015, she was the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University until 2019 when Teresa went to be a Provost at the Texas Christian University.

Scholarly Contributions
-           Dalberg has been a principal investigator or oi for short for over 20-million-dollar grants.

-           She served on the Advisory Committee to the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) for 3 years.

-           She co-chaired the CISE Education subcommittee.

-           Dalberg was a technology consultant for Netflix, JP Morgan Chase etc.

= References: = Meet the Deans: Teresa Dahlberg | The Cooper Union

University of Tampa names its 11th president after monthslong search (tampabay.com)

(11) Teresa (Abi-Nader) Dahlberg | LinkedIn

Our Provost (tcu.edu)

https://ece.ncsu.edu/honor/teresa-dahlberg/