[1][2] She is an associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University, where she also serves as assistant dean for retention, diversity and inclusion.
[3] Betz has a 2006 bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from George Washington University.
She went to Columbia University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2008 and completing her Ph.D. in 2011.
[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Multiphase Microfluidics for Convective Heat Transfer and Manufacturing, was supervised by Daniel Attinger.
[6] In 2017, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Conference on Nanochannel, Microchannels, and Minichannels gave her their Outstanding Leadership Award.