Robin Hammond is Director/Chief Education & Workforce Development Officer for Electrified Processes for Industrial eXCellence (EPIXC), a public–private partnership focused on strengthening U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. EPIXC addresses the growing demand for technologically advanced, efficient, and cost-effective industrial process heating technologies and a skilled workforce required to implement them.
Previously, Hammond served as the Founding Director of the Fulton Schools of Engineering Career Center, where she led rapid growth from serving approximately 6,500 students to more than 32,000 engineering students and technical professionals. She guided teams that partnered with global companies to build talent pipelines and recruit top engineering talent for over 14,000 employers. Hammond also developed innovative career programs—including the Fulton Ultimate Engineering and Leadership program and the Texas Instruments Technical, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Bootcamp—which participants consistently cited as transformative.
Deeply committed to broadening participation in higher education, Hammond served as Co-Principal Investigator on NSF INCLUDES and S-STEM grants examining success factors for first-generation college students. This work led to the application of a “Theory of Change” model to identify high-impact practices that support student retention and college success.
Hammond serves on the Indigenous Career Futures university committee and consults with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at Arizona State University as a former advisor. She has also held leadership roles within the American Society for Engineering Education’s Cooperative and Experiential Education Division.
Hammond holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and has more than 30 years of experience in higher education. She is Diné and a proud member of the Navajo Nation