National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Cinda Lautenschlegar is a lead senior air pollution control engineer for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. In this role, she implements Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements to bring statewide facilities into compliance through onsite inspections, application and compliance reviews, writing air pollution control permits, developing control and emissions requirements, and providing technical and regulatory expertise to the public and regulated community.

In addition to implementing CAA requirements, Ms. Lautenschlegar wrote and released a report for the Governor’s Climate Change Steering Committee on Green House Gas reduction strategies from four different sectors (Refrigerants, Recycling and Waste, Energy, and Transportation). Such green house gas reduction strategies will be utilized in drafting legislation and implementing voluntary measures to reduce carbon dioxide equivalents to meet the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Goal of 10% under 1990 emission levels of Green House Gases.

Ms. Lautenschlegar formerly was lead thermal design engineer for IBM in New York for IBM’s 9121 Mainframe Computer Development where she designed cooling systems for the first air-cooled mid-range mainframe computer.

She is Co-Incorporator and past Board Director of the Communication Advocacy Network Corporation, a statewide organization founded in 2004 to provide auxiliary support services for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind persons. She is a member of Deaf Women in Science and Engineering and helped create the group’s initial website. 

She was a director of the Northeast Deaf Women’s Conference in 1998 and a board director for Deaf Women of Connecticut from 1997-99.

Ms. Lautenschlegar received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and is working on a master’s degree in environmental engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.