Madhukar (Maud) Rao is a retired Chemical Engineer and currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Workforce Development at Innovation Impact Partners, LLC. He has more than 36 years of industrial R&D experience with major chemical and semiconductor materials companies, where he held senior positions in R&D management. Many of the products developed by his teams are currently used by leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers (e.g., Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Micron). He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Materials Science from The Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The New Jersey Institute of Technology. For the past 2 ½ years, Maud has been a docent at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. He serves on the museum’s Scholarship Committee and is a training coordinator for new docents. He enjoys engineering, history, and teaching, so being a docent at the museum is a perfect fit. He has extensive experience in preparing and giving talks on aviation and space history for the museum, and is part of the museum’s Speakers Bureau. He has given several talks to community organizations throughout the San Diego area. Maud also serves the community as a volunteer math and science tutor, and as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Volunteers of America Southwest, a non-profit social service agency in San Diego. In the past, he served on the Board of Directors for Volunteers of America, Pennsylvania, and on the National Board of the Volunteers of America, Inc.