Carolina C Ilie is an Associate Professor with tenure at the State University of New York at Oswego. She taught Electromagnetic Theory for almost ten years and designed various problems for her students' exams, group work, and quizzes. Dr Ilie obtained her PhD in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, an MSc in Physics at Ohio State University and another MSc in Physics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She received the President's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016 and the Provost Award for Mentoring in Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2013. She lives in Central New York with her spouse, also a physicist, and their two sons. Photograph courtesy of James Russell/SUNY Oswego Office of Communications and Marketing.