Elisabeth Grace Franz

• Collaborates extensively with co-workers in the strategic planning of Federal Columbia River Power System operations.
• Conducts river optimization modeling studies to inform Market Function Employees how to maximize value of available water through sales and purchases in multiple wholesale energy markets.
• Delivers oral presentations identifying operational constraints, system flexibility, and describing the opportunity cost of various decisions.
• Strategically coordinates unit outage schedules with several external stakeholders. Frequently navigates and de-escalates conflicting interests while working towards minimizing BPA's exorbitant infrastructure maintenance costs and ensuring transmission grid reliability throughout the region.
• Leads efforts to consistently improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy of internal processes.
• Serves as a primary trainer to new employees, frequently developing new curriculum including video procedures, updating existing procedures, and organizing learning materials in a comprehensible manner.

• Served a short-term detail absorbing information about Columbia River Treaty negotiations and determination of Columbia River rights between the US and Canada.
• Learned how to conduct and developed video curriculum for the Treaty Storage Regulation Study, a critical tool in determining US and Canadian water rights.

• Introduced all experiments and performed several demonstrations.
• Aided in teaching students how to apply professional scientific and mathematical principles to perform scientific research and analysis, draw conclusions, and present results.
• Explained the mathematical or statistical techniques used
  for the analysis of each experiment and any limitations
  thereof to foster understanding of work completed and the
  significance of their use to the specific topic.
• Maintained a safe working environment, and providing meaningful assignment feedback.

• Contacted professors across all disciplines, requesting
  permission to give a brief presentation to their class
  highlighting Michigan Tech’s accelerated Master of Business
  Administration (MBA) program.
• Developed a novel electronic survey system for professors to efficiently schedule a preferable time to host the presentation.
• Developed training materials for future MBA Ambassadors using the developed electronic systems.
• Gave brief, informative presentations about the accelerated
  MBA program to students at Michigan Tech and created a
  video/survey to continue presentations virtually during the
  COVID-19 pandemic.
• Designed several marketing and outreach materials for the MBA program including sign-up sheets, flyers, table tents, and an announcement compatible with the university's electronic display system.
• Contacted 112 professors and collected 116 interested student signatures following presentations.
  interested student signatures gathered following
  presentations

Project Title: Incorporating 3D Printed Molecular Models as
Educational Aids in STEM

• Interviewed faculty members to understand their visual representation needs for teaching purposes.
• Conducted interdisciplinary work with a mechanical engineering student to help in the brainstorming, design process, and printing of several teaching aids requested by faculty members
• Prepared several scientific reports including a book published on an Open-Source platform. Title: Printing 3D Models for Chemistry: A Step-by-Step Open-Source Guide for Hobbyists, Corporate Professionals, and Educators and Students in K-12 and Higher Education; ISBN: 978-1-7326524-3-9.

Project Title: The Solvent Effect on a Polycarbonate Interface

• Planned and conducted analyses for determination of the theoretical effect of contaminant molecules on a polycarbonate interface.
• Implemented computer modeling and simulations to collect, interpret, compare, and correlate calculations and data.
• Compared data to peer-reviewed published experimental results for validation and made technique modifications when necessary.
• Received an Undergraduate Research Internship Program
  (URIP) Award- October 2017.
• Awarded first place undergraduate poster presentation at the 2018 Upper Peninsula Local Section of the American Chemical Society Research Symposium.

• Successfully researched, recommended, developed, and implemented four new computational chemistry experiments using modern computational techniques.
• Provided thorough introductions and demonstrations for each new experiment. Taught students how to use complex computer modeling and simulation software to carry out assignments.
• Explained to students the mathematical or statistical techniques used and any limitations thereof to foster a deeper understanding of the experimental methods used and their significance to the related problem.
• Ensured technical information students were not yet familiar with was communicated in an easily comprehensible manner.
• Maintained a safe working environment, and providing meaningful assignment feedback.
• Awarded the Michigan Tech Chemistry Department's Outstanding Upper-Level Division Teaching Assistant Award.

• Introduced experiments and demonstrated necessary techniques.
• Supervised the class during experiments, answered all questions, graded student assignments, and created a healthy environment to foster students' learning.
• Supervised a total of 64 students, receiving overwhelmingly positive student feedback on teaching evaluations.