Karen High

Karen High, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University. Her work spans sustainable process design methodologies and engineering education initiatives.

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University, 1991)
• M.S., Chemical Engineering (Pennsylvania State University, 1988)
• B.S., Chemical Engineering (University of Michigan, 1985)

Dr. High specializes in sustainable process design, focusing on systems that balance environmental, economic, and societal objectives through mathematical modeling. Her Multicriteria Decision Making framework, SusCAD, enables iterative optimization of chemical processes via closed-loop feedback.

Her engineering education contributions include training educators for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering programs, initiating an engineering curriculum at Stillwater Middle School, and leading a 2008 professional development workshop for 80 Northeast Oklahoma middle-school teachers to create integrated engineering materials.