Dr. Audrey Pool O’Neal received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2014. She also received an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA, an MS in Engineering Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from GMI Engineering and Management Institute. For more than fifteen years she worked as an engineer and manager at the Powertrain Division of General Motors Corporation, in automatic transmission design and manufacturing.