Deanne Bell is an American television personality and engineer.

Career

Prior to her media career, Deanne designed optomechanics for military aircraft sensors in

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and worked as a senior application engineer for a software startup in Boston. She has previously worked on PBS's '' Design Squad'',

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's '' Smash Lab'', and National Geographic's "The Egyptian Job". She has also co-hosted DIY Network's "Money Hunters" and ESPN's "Rise Up." Bell is originally from Palm Bay, Florida. In 2002, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, with a

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and is the 2019 Young Alumni Award recipient for its McKelvey School of Engineering. In 2014, Deanne founded Future Engineers, whose partnership with

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and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation hosts a series of student invention challenges as a joint commitment to the White House Maker Initiative. As part of the first challenge, students were asked to create a digital 3D model of a space tool, and the winning design was 3D printed aboard the

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* Living people American women television personalities McKelvey School of Engineering alumni People from Palm Bay, Florida American women engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Television personalities from Florida {{US-engineer-stub