Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Alex Dietrich served a 20 year career as a Naval officer and strike fighter pilot (F/A-18F). During her squadron tours she served two combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Her last deployment was a yearlong assignment boots-on-ground as an infrastructure reconstruction engineer in Ghazni Afghanistan. She was awarded a Bronze Star and Air Combat Medal.
She then transitioned to academia, serving as a Naval Science instructor at the consortium of schools in Washington DC (Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, and Catholic Universities), then as a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in the department of Leadership, Ethics and Law. Her scholarship and teaching contributions include: Critical Thinking, Leadership, Ethics, Change Management, Knowledge Management, Resilience and the Code of the Warrior.
Alex joined the CU Boulder College of Engineering faculty in 2022 as an adjunct instructor in the Engineering Leadership Program and was appointed a Scholar in Residence to the Engineering Management Program in 2023. Her courses focus on Leadership, Management, Critical Thinking, Communication, Decision Making and Change: ENLP 300 Intelligent Leadership, EMEN 3100 Introduction to Engineering Management, EMEN 5051 Leading Oneself, EMEN 5052 Leading Others, and EMEN 5015 Engineering Communication.
A life-long athlete, Alex was captain of the George Washington University’s Cross Country team; Assistant Coach of the Texas A&M University Kingsville Cross Country team, and is currently a USA Track & Field Masters All-American in the steeplechase. She is an active volunteer with youth athletic and mentoring programs in the local community.
Alex is an alumna of the Illinois Math & Science Academy. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from George Washington University and graduated from the Defense Language Institute speaking Dari (Afghan Farsi). She earned her MBA from the GW School of Business.