Pamela Eibeck is currently Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering and Technology at Northern Arizona University. In addition, she is a co-Editor of the NEEDS Database, an electronic database of engineering educational courseware developed by the NSF-sponsored SYNTHESIS Coalition. Before coming to NAU, Dr. Eibeck was on the faculty at UC Berkeley for ten years. She received her BS, MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.