Originally from Steubenville, Ohio, Katie Boris is a senior civil engineering major at the University of Notre Dame. Katie is the typical over-involved Notre Dame student. She is a member of the trumpet section in the Band of the Fighting Irish, and the current Regent of the Daughters of Isabella, Circle 1418. Additionally, she is a member of ASCE and Chi Epsilon, serving as Marshall in the latter. Katie has long been interested in bridges, possibly due to the many bridges in her hometown and in nearby Pittsburgh, Pa. Over the past summer, she participated in research at the University of Houston studying the contribution of transverse reinforcement in bridge girders under various loading scenarios. She is currently planning on attending graduate school to study bridge engineering.

Maria is a senior from Austin, Texas majoring in Civil Engineering. Participating in service work has been a big part of her career at Notre Dame.  She enrolled in a community based learning class her freshman year and soon after joined the Circle K service group.  She has participated in two service trips through the Center for Social Concerns, one to New Orleans during fall break 2006 to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the second to Appalachia during spring break 2009 to help families negatively affected by coal mining.  She currently serves on the Social Concerns Committee in Student Government helping to implement service projects on campus.  She is really energized about the ND SEED project especially since it will be her last service venture as an undergraduate.  Beyond service work, Maria does research with Dr. Khandelwal in his Computational Physics and Structural Simulation Lab.  She previously worked on finite element modeling of concrete structures under thermal loading this past summer and is currently working on the structural response of steel members to fire loads.  She is a member of the engineering organizations ASCE and SHPE, where she serves as secretary.

Angela is a lifelong Alaskan who takes great pleasure in the outdoors. She is currently a senior at the University of Notre Dame completing a degree in Civil Engineering, with a focus in Structural Engineering. Her interest in civil engineering stems as far back as elementary school when her 3rd grade teacher asked what she wanted to be when she grew up and Angela replied, “I want to build bridges.” Her lifelong enthusiasm for bridges along with her desire to serve others makes Bridges to Prosperity an ideal and exciting project. Angela has further developed her engineering skills interning for the CRW Engineering Group in Anchorage, AK and for PBS&J in Denver, CO both jobs focusing on transportation design. When not in the classroom or workplace Angela enjoys competing in triathlons, skiing in the mountains, and spending time with her family.

Chris was born and raised in the southeastern region of Pennsylvania for his entire life, spending most weekends in the northeastern region. Always interested in the way road networks worked and connected together in their entirety, so in a way this is how he knew he wanted to be a civil engineer. He is currently finishing his final year at the University of Notre Dame and preparing to go onto graduate school. During the summers after freshman and sophomore years of college, he interned with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation working in the Environmental and Project Management Units. During the last summer, he worked in San Diego, California at UCSD working for the university doing research in earthquake engineering. Having always been interested in giving back to the community using his skills as a civil engineer, he saw ND SEED as the answer. He is the current vice president of the Notre Dame Chapter of Chi Epsilon.