Dr. Jenna L. Gorlewicz received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2008, before pursuing her PhD in mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, where she worked in the Medical and Electromechanical Design (MED) Laboratory. 

At Vanderbilt, she was a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Vanderbilt Educational Research fellow.  Dr. Gorlewicz is currently a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Saint Louis University. She is the director of the Collaborative Haptics, Robotics, and Mechatronics (CHROME) Lab. 

Her research interests are in haptic and human-machine interfaces, medical devices and robotics, educational technologies, engineering education, and entrepreneurship.  She is co-Founder of Vital, an educational technology company geared toward bridging the digital accessibility gap in today's classrooms, and is mom to 3 handsome boys who keep her young and active.