Maria Chierichetti is an Associate Professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering at SJSU. Since joining SJSU, Dr. Chierichetti has been involved in several activities that promote students’ success: she has implemented novel pedagogies in her classes, such as specification grading and mastery learning, she coaches students by implementing active learning strategies in her classes, she mentors engineering faculty to improve their teaching. Her research focuses on the development of data-driven models to analyze structural vibrations. She is also interested in investigating the policies related to safety of transportation systems, both on the ground and in the airspace. She is currently a research associate for the Mineta Transportation Institute. She received her MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS and MS from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).