Elizabeth Hunter 2005

Elizabeth A. Hunter

BS Civil Engineering and Environmental Studies 1997
Omaha, Neb.

With 3,500 Iowa State University alumni living in Omaha, Council Bluffs, and the surrounding communities, some might find it surprising that in the fall of 2002 there was no active alumni club in the area. That was, until the ISU Alumni Association met a civil engineer named Elizabeth Hunter. Since that time, Hunter has been the face of the ISU Alumni Association Club of Omaha-Council Bluffs. She jumped right in with both feet and immediately began developing creative ways to engage alumni in her area. She was integral to the ISU Alumni Association’s development of electronic communications—including e-mail newsletters and Web sites—for the clubs program, and she has consistently viewed each opportunity to re-energize the alumni base in Omaha-Council Bluffs as a welcomed challenge. Her nominators describe her as enthusiastic, creative, resourceful, and an avid Cyclone fan.

Currently a civil engineer for Leo A. Daly, Hunter was very involved as an undergraduate student with the Society for Women Engineers and the Team PrISUm solar car at ISU. She continues to organize Team PrISUm gatherings as an alumna. She was inducted into Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honor society, in 2002, and she is a past recipient of the ISU Women’s Club Patricia Miller Memorial Award for women leaders and the Buick Volunteer Spirit Award. Hunter, who earned a master’s degree in civil engineering and community and regional planning from the University of Nebraska in 2004, is active in and a past president of the Society of Women Engineers’ Eastern Nebraska section and is vice chair of the Engineer’s Roundtable for the Omaha metro area.

She is a lifetime member of the ISU Alumni Association.