Dr. Amy Engelbrecht-Wiggans is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. She received her B.S. from the University of Illinois in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2011. In 2017 she completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University, also in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Following post doctoral work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she joined RIT in fall of 2021. Her research focuses on quantifying the long term reliability of continuous fiber materials, with the ultimate goal of using laboratory measured fiber and matrix properties to predict large scale composite failure distributions and how they change over time.