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IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference Call for Speakers
Pitch your speaking idea to the 2015 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC), which will be held April 23-25, 2015 in San Jose, CA. This year’s theme is Lead Beyond. Accelerating Innovative Women Who Change the World. and the conference will be focused on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship. Conference attendees include 400-500…
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 6 – Shayna Simon, Electrical Engineering Student
Interview with Shayna Simon, who is an electrical engineering student at the University of Michigan. She has also been a hardware development and application development intern at General Motors.
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2020 Girls — Introducing Girls to the Thrills of Science, Design, Engineering & Tech
There is no doubt that there is a need for professionals in the STEM fields in this country, especially women. ITEC in Lansing, in partnership with MCWT, is jump-starting girls’ interest in STEM with their 2020 Girls program, launched just this year. About 100 middle school girls are participating in programming, engineering and design activities…
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Physics as a Gateway to a STEM Career
I have always loved science. My favorite classes throughout elementary, middle and high schools were science classes. I loved watching Cosmos and NOVA and Nature on PBS (which helped quite a bit with the science classes). The same cannot be said of math classes, which were my bane through college (see The Engineer Who Hated…
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Women in Engineering, Interview with Brittany Young, Project Engineer
Brittany Young loved science from a young age, and is now a UMBC chemical engineering and chemistry major, as well as working as a Project Engineer and Technician at Key Technology, Inc. She has had the pleasure of working at APL, NASA and McCormick & Co. She’s also involved in STEM mentorship programs to promote…
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Women in Engineering, Interview with Ariel Ash-Shakoor, NSF IGERT Fellow & Bioengineering Graduate Student
Though it was a difficult journey, Ariel Ash-Shakoor was always interested in the medial, health, and science fields. She enjoyed solving problems and creating stories. She is currently a bioengineering graduate student at Syracuse University and a proud alumni of the Univeristy of Maryland, College Park which is located close to her hometown by the District…
