Energy empathy: ASEE's president combines an innate drive and a desire to understand today's students

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AS A YOUNGSTER, RENGEL WITNESSED THE LONG HOURS her parents put into running an air conditioning and refrigeration business out of their family home in Connellsville, a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. "A call would come in at 2 in the morning - a freezer was broken - and my father would dash out and fix it," Engel, 51, recalls. "He never charged them overtime for working at these unusual hours. He said they couldn't help it if their equipment broke down." She adds, "Their job didn't run from 8 to 5. You did what you needed to do to get things done."