Skip Rochefort, Oregon State College of Engineering
Associate Professor Skip Rochefort demonstrates the properties of Super Absorbent Polymers found in disposable diapers.

Skip Rochefort is a myth-buster of sorts. As an associate professor of chemical engineering and executive director of Pre-College Programs, he’s dedicated at least part of his work to demonstrating the impact of engineering in daily life and challenging prevailing stereotypes of what engineers do. (Hint, they don’t just design things.) Continue reading