Staci (Van Norman) Moulton says her time at Oregon State University jump-started a path of technology development and educating others. As a K-12 outreach coordinator with mentor Skip Rochefort, she developed a passion for both research and helping students find their passion. The Johnson Scholars program gave her the opportunity to learn the process of research and development as well as commercialization while working on the eXpert with Timberline Tool, a natural gas pipeline patching system. The professors in the College of Engineering taught her what it meant to care about a student’s development, and as an Engineering Ambassador she was able to show prospective Oregon State University engineering students the best of what the college could offer. Staci now serves as the Director of Field Application Engineering at Forge Nano in Thornton, Colorado. Forge Nano developed commercial manufacturing methods for atomic layer deposition (ALD) on powders and objects, a thin film coating technique. This process is used in a variety of markets including lithium-ion batteries, catalysis, additive manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and recently for high reliability electronics. Moulton is a key liaison with customers and project partners for delivery of technical content, limitations of ALD, and market readiness including cost analysis. In 2015, she was the principal investigator for an Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPAe) project for ALD catalysis and its commercial opportunities. In 2020, Staci and a colleague established the Advanced Surface Engineering Summit, a free virtual conference on the science and applications of ALD from researchers around the world. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado – Boulder studying ALD of cobalt for active catalyst materials, and received an MBA from the University of Colorado – Denver. She has also authored ALD and polymer patents and was a technology lead for a research firm proposing projects to U.S. Government agencies for commercialization. Moulton says she is excited about where the use of ALD and applications goes from here, and feels that the ASE Summit demonstrates just a subset of what is possible and what is being commercialized right now. At Forge Nano, the team is building the manufacturing equipment to launch ALD in new applications, which will lead to more efficient and effective materials in chemical manufacturing and lithium-ion batteries, among other uses.