Brittany Smith received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2020 from the University of Connecticut. At Duke University, she earned her master’s degree in 2023 and is set to graduate in summer 2024 with a PhD — both in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). She is investigating sustainable inks and fabrication processes for printed sensors and transistors. A go-to collaborator in the Franklin group, she has authored ten papers — four of them as lead author. When she moves into a faculty position, she will expand her current research through material exploration, novel printing processes, and unique device architectures. She envisions her group striving to identify and implement durable sustainable materials for distributed sensing for oceanic, wilderness, and other environmental applications. Over the last year, she helped launch a program that pairs Duke graduate students with prospective students in need of help with the graduate school application process. As a member of the Duke Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility Outreach Team, Smith has introduced hundreds of K-12 students to nanotechnology at science nights, museum visits, and other events. As a woman in ECE, she hopes to break barriers and improve diversity through strategic recruitment within underrepresented groups and establish a women in engineering mentorship program. As a professor, she will harness concept-based learning, hands-on-teaching, and individualized content to aid student success in and out of the classroom.