The requirement to rapidly pivot to virtual delivery of courses due to the pandemic didn’t faze French. She helped convert more than 40 courses to a distance learning platform, several having never before been taught virtually. Her efforts enabled nearly 3,000 students to fulfill their continuing education needs.
French is active outside of the classroom, serving as a Combined Federal Campaign keyworker and the programs committee chair for the Society of American Military Engineers Kittyhawk Post where she helped raise $2,700 for a local food bank.
As an active-duty Air Force civil engineer, French served around the world, including Portugal, Afghanistan, Japan, Qatar, Iraq and Turkey. She retired from active duty in 2015 and has been an instructor at AFIT since then.
French is a graduate of the Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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