EPISODE · Jun 3, 2026 · 42 MIN
Episode 7: She Stayed
from Breaking Frozen Ground · host Bill Schnabel and Shelly Thomas
Elizabeth Beckett, PE came to Alaska at eight years old when her dad took a welding engineering job on the pipeline. She never left.From a desk in Fairbanks, she's designed electrical systems for military facilities on the other side of the world, engineered off-grid solar microgrids inside national parks accessible only by helicopter, won a national lighting award, chaired the Alaska Board of Registration, and co-founded a global engineering competition that's still running today.This is a story about what happens when you stop treating Alaska as a stepping stone.
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Elizabeth Beckett, PE came to Alaska at eight years old when her dad took a welding engineering job on the pipeline. She never left.From a desk in Fairbanks, she's designed electrical systems for military facilities on the other side of the world, engineered off-grid solar microgrids inside national parks accessible only by helicopter, won a national lighting award, chaired the Alaska Board of Registration, and co-founded a global engineering competition that's still running today.This is a story about what happens when you stop treating Alaska as a stepping stone.
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