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Christin Badylak-Reals is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. She is passionate about energy systems, innovation and entrepreneurship and aspires to apply design thinking to address the issues facing the electric grid.
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Christin Badylak-Reals is a University Innovation Fellow (UIF) and an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering ('19) at the University of New Hampshire. She is passionate about energy systems, innovation and entrepreneurship and aspires to apply design thinking to address the issues facing the electric grid.</span>
  
Christin started her UNH studies in 2013 in Environmental Conservation and Sustainability. In addition to her enjoyable classes she made time for a number of related clubs and internships. Christin was co-coordinator of the UNH Student Environmental Action Coalition where she led efforts in diverting waste from the landfill with Trash 2 Treasure.&nbsp; She interned with the Post Landfill Action Network where she designed and managed the Waste Audit of the University. As a Research Apprentice, the summer of 2014 for the UNH Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, she worked under a National Science Foundation grant to facilitate the creation and execution of a non-market valuation research study of beach erosion control on Plum Island, MA. In addition to conducting hundreds of in-person surveys she composed a literature review of the effects of beach erosion control on barrier island ecosystem services.
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the summer of 2015, she interned at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and System Analysis (EPSA) in Washington D.C. While in D.C. not only did she do substantial analytical work on US energy infrastructure but she networked extensively and did informal informational interviews with numerous people in the EPSA. As a result of those conversations, she became convinced that she needed to deepen her scientific and technical expertise. When she returned to UNH in the fall, she transferred from her environmental studies major into mechanical engineering.</span>
  
In addition to her interest in sustainability Christin has been involved in leadership and public policy. Starting in 2013 she began a two year term as Councilor on the New Hampshire Legislative Youth Advisory Council. Her responsibilities included promoting the importance of renewable energy and energy efficiency, developing recommendations for State Energy Strategy and changes to existing legislation, serving as liaison to State Energy Committee, Energy Efficiency Sustainable Energy Board, and advising the NH Legislature on issues of concern to NH youth. This policy work was instrumental in Christin being hired as a Scholar Intern at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) the summer of 2015.
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The UIF program has been instrumental in shaping Christin's UNH experience. In the spring of 2017, she created an independent study with UNH’s Associate Vice Provost of Innovation and New Ventures. Her independent study explores the possibility of an interdisciplinary course for upper-class engineering and business students that would allow them to collaboratively apply senior design projects as a product or business solution.</span>
  
While working in Washington D.C. she analyzed the significance of comprehensive state energy planning for national policy. She also facilitated stakeholder input sessions to inform analysis and policy recommendations under the Quadrennial Energy Review. Christin also had the opportunity to compose talking points on climate initiatives for Administration officials. &nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After participating in the UIF Silicon Valley Meet-up in March of 2017, Christin was reinvigorated to continue her efforts with fellow UNH UIFs in creating new opportunities that help their fellow UNH wildcats develop an entrepreneurial mindset, define problems, and innovatively address global challenges.&nbsp;</span>
 
 
During her time at DOE Christin made the time to conduct networking interviews with a wide variety of professionals in the field of energy. As a result of these interviews, Christin changed her major to engineering and expects to graduate May of 2019. She enjoys her studies and understands the importance of learning how things work while at the same time working to invent more sustainable solutions to our world’s challenges. &nbsp;
 
  
 
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Christin Badylak-Reals is a University Innovation Fellow (UIF) and an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering ('19) at the University of New Hampshire. She is passionate about energy systems, innovation and entrepreneurship and aspires to apply design thinking to address the issues facing the electric grid.

In the summer of 2015, she interned at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and System Analysis (EPSA) in Washington D.C. While in D.C. not only did she do substantial analytical work on US energy infrastructure but she networked extensively and did informal informational interviews with numerous people in the EPSA. As a result of those conversations, she became convinced that she needed to deepen her scientific and technical expertise. When she returned to UNH in the fall, she transferred from her environmental studies major into mechanical engineering.

The UIF program has been instrumental in shaping Christin's UNH experience. In the spring of 2017, she created an independent study with UNH’s Associate Vice Provost of Innovation and New Ventures. Her independent study explores the possibility of an interdisciplinary course for upper-class engineering and business students that would allow them to collaboratively apply senior design projects as a product or business solution.

After participating in the UIF Silicon Valley Meet-up in March of 2017, Christin was reinvigorated to continue her efforts with fellow UNH UIFs in creating new opportunities that help their fellow UNH wildcats develop an entrepreneurial mindset, define problems, and innovatively address global challenges. 


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