Kathleen Maher is the Assistant Director of the International Engineering Program.  Previously she was a Study Abroad Adviser at the University of Iowa, as well as the Administrative Coordinator of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Study Abroad Programs. Prior to that she lived in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, where she taught English and social sciences at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) – Campus Sonora Norte .

As an undergraduate history major at Siena College (in Loudonville, New York), Ms. Maher studied abroad in Madrid, Spain. She obtained a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona in 1995. She is an active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.