Biography

Kaitlin Mallouk has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Between her undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Dr. Mallouk worked for two years for Merck & Co., where she supported the scale-up of the purification process for the HPV vaccine, Gardasil™. 

Dr. Mallouk has been a faculty member since September 2013 when she joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Rowan University as a tenure-track instructor. She subsequently took a full time appointment in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) department and was tenured and promoted to Assistant Professor. In her roles at Rowan, Dr. Mallouk has been responsible for teaching and developing curriculum for Rowan’s multi-disciplinary design course sequence, First- and Second-Year Engineering Clinics, and mentoring upper-level students in small, research-focused projects. In 2018, she was named to the Rowan University Faculty Center Wall of Fame for both Teaching and Advising and in 2022 she received both the ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Distinguished Teaching Award and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network Rising Star Award. She also conducts NSF- and foundation-sponsored research in the areas of faculty development, entrepreneurial mindset, and diversity equity and inclusion.