Who’s got your back?
**The Anita Borg Institute sent me to Hawaii to be part of the HP diversity booth at the ASEE annual conference. Below is the feed from the ABI blog (www.anitaborg.org) published under the same title**
HP and the America Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) are once again hosting a diversity booth at the Annual ASEE conference and exposition June 24-27 at the Hawaii Convention Center. The Anita Borg Institute is pleased to be representing on the floor of the exposition hall along side leading organizations that provide programs, services, research and support for a variety of underserved communities within engineering and technology fields.
When I stand along side these sister and brother organizations I’m encouraged. Often times in a small non-profit you feel like you have to do it all. When I stand shoulder to shoulder with each an every one of these people, hear about their work, understand their depth of knowledge and convictions I know conclusively…we don’t.
The Anita Borg Institute does have some of the answers. We don’t have them all. But by coming together with supporters, constituency and other organizations like those here at ASEE we expand our expertise, reach and impact. We are called to be the best in our particular sector, maintain the integrity of our mission and excel in our programs. When we do our job well we support the entire community. Increasingly we need to understand the landscape and our friends well enough to know who, in essence, who has our back.
Effectively solving the engineering, science and technology issues of the 21st century will require a depth and breadth of participation from every population. No single organization has all the answers. No country will have the luxury to leave behind or leave unheard large swaths of its own population or to ignore its partners and competitors across national borders. Everyone here seems to agree that the Engineer of the 21st century will not look like the engineer of the 20th. The 21st century challenges are going to be great and the rewards and possibilities consummate with those challenges.
The diversity booth is one example but you see and hear it everywhere here at ASEE. The opening keynotes by Philippe Forestier, executive vice president at Dassault Systems and Leah Jamieson, dean of engineering at Purdue University & CEO and president of IEEE had at their core, though in very different ways, the new engineers, environments, perceptions and innovations of the 21st century. Forestier spoke about three-dimensional and multi-national engineering. Jamieson followed and spoke forcefully about Forestier’s points and the interplay between those things and the liberally educated, creative, artistic, technically skilled, nimble, connected, reflective, contextualized and diverse, “multi-dimensional” engineer of 2020.
From workshops and sessions to a stroll through the booth spaces on the exposition floor you see organizations addressing these issues at one level or another. Everyone appears to be grappling with at least one aspect; many (like HP and ASEE) are addressing multiple levels and bringing to the surface the conversations necessary for change.
HP and the America Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) are once again hosting a diversity booth at the Annual ASEE conference and exposition June 24-27 at the Hawaii Convention Center. The Anita Borg Institute is pleased to be representing on the floor of the exposition hall along side leading organizations that provide programs, services, research and support for a variety of underserved communities within engineering and technology fields.
When I stand along side these sister and brother organizations I’m encouraged. Often times in a small non-profit you feel like you have to do it all. When I stand shoulder to shoulder with each an every one of these people, hear about their work, understand their depth of knowledge and convictions I know conclusively…we don’t.
The Anita Borg Institute does have some of the answers. We don’t have them all. But by coming together with supporters, constituency and other organizations like those here at ASEE we expand our expertise, reach and impact. We are called to be the best in our particular sector, maintain the integrity of our mission and excel in our programs. When we do our job well we support the entire community. Increasingly we need to understand the landscape and our friends well enough to know who, in essence, who has our back.
Effectively solving the engineering, science and technology issues of the 21st century will require a depth and breadth of participation from every population. No single organization has all the answers. No country will have the luxury to leave behind or leave unheard large swaths of its own population or to ignore its partners and competitors across national borders. Everyone here seems to agree that the Engineer of the 21st century will not look like the engineer of the 20th. The 21st century challenges are going to be great and the rewards and possibilities consummate with those challenges.
The diversity booth is one example but you see and hear it everywhere here at ASEE. The opening keynotes by Philippe Forestier, executive vice president at Dassault Systems and Leah Jamieson, dean of engineering at Purdue University & CEO and president of IEEE had at their core, though in very different ways, the new engineers, environments, perceptions and innovations of the 21st century. Forestier spoke about three-dimensional and multi-national engineering. Jamieson followed and spoke forcefully about Forestier’s points and the interplay between those things and the liberally educated, creative, artistic, technically skilled, nimble, connected, reflective, contextualized and diverse, “multi-dimensional” engineer of 2020.
From workshops and sessions to a stroll through the booth spaces on the exposition floor you see organizations addressing these issues at one level or another. Everyone appears to be grappling with at least one aspect; many (like HP and ASEE) are addressing multiple levels and bringing to the surface the conversations necessary for change.
- Together we make a strong statement about the critical importance of diversity in engineering.
- Together we demonstrate the importance of the work each does within a larger framework.
- Together we highlight the complexity of the issues faced in changing a culture, increasing diversity and indeed, changing the world.
So, with that, here is a quick look at the other organizations who this week at ASEE “have our back”
MentorNet
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
NAE Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE)
HENAAC, Promoting Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
National Association of Multicultural Engineering (NAMEPA)
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineering (SHPE)
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN)
All good things,
Wig
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