Karen Harwell was recently promoted to the position of Associate Board Director after five years with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB). She has led studies to review NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology Program and NASA’s Capability Roadmaps. She has planned workshops on space technology issues and led an assessment of space solar power. Dr. Harwell participated in the NRC Christine Mirzayan Fellowship Program during summer 2000 before she began full-time work at ASEB as a program officer. She earned both Ph.D., and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Alabama where she was involved in the Computer Based Honors Program. During her graduate work, Dr. Harwell was a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program participant at NASA Langley Research Center, an Amelia Earhart Fellow with Zonta International Foundation, and a Tau Beta Pi Stark Fellow. She held engineering internships at the Center for Space Transportation and Applied Research in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where she performed satellite communications research and CFD grid generation. She also performed undergraduate research in aerodynamics and helicopter simulation at both the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama. Karen was President of both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student chapter and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary at the University of Alabama. Dr. Harwell was also awarded Sigma Gamma Tau's Southeast Region Honor Undergraduate Award for academic achievement and leadership.