WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch - Members Room
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| 12:20pm |
Welcome/Opening Remarks - Members Room
Paul Kostek, AAES
Wm. A. Wulf , NAE
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| 12:30pm |
Opening Address - Members Room
Jacob Lozada, Special Assistant for Diversity Strategy
Office of Personnel Management
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| 1:15pm |
Where are we now with respect to diversity in engineering? - Lecture Room |
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- Eleanor Babco, Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology
Current engineering diversity statistics, status and trends
- Cathleen Barton, Intel Corporation, and Daryl Chubin, NACME
Current efforts to address the issue
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| 2:15pm |
What are engineering societies currently doing to address diversity?
Peggy Layne, AAES |
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- Results of survey of current engineering society diversity programs
- Minority focused organization missions and programs
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| 2:45pm |
Panel of engineering society representatives |
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- Examples of membership focused programs - ASME, SAE, SPIE
- Discussion
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| 3:15pm |
Break
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| 3:30pm |
Breakout discussions of membership focused programs - Rooms 150, 180, 250, 280 |
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- How can societies learn from each other? Find ways to work together?
- How can existing programs be strengthened?
- How can we measure impact?
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| 4:30pm |
Report outs - Lecture Room
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| 5:00pm |
Keynote speaker - Lecture Room
Dr. Mal O’Neil, Chief Technology Officer
Lockheed Martin Corporation
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| 5:30pm |
Networking reception - Great Hall
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THURSDAY, APRIL 3
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| 7:30pm |
Breakfast - Great Hall
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| 8:15am |
Welcome and Summary of 1st Day - Lecture Room
Joe Bordogna, NSF
Paul Kostek, AAES
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| 8:30am |
What works to increase diversity in engineering? |
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- Pat Campbell, Campbell-Kibler Associates
Recent research findings on effective interventions
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| 9:15am |
Panel of minority focused organization representatives - NACME, WEPAN, MESA |
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- Present examples of education and career development programs
- Discussion
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| 9:45am |
Break
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| 10:00am |
Breakout discussions - externally focused programs |
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- What can “discipline” societies learn from “minority focused” organizations, and vice versa?
- How can existing programs be strengthened?
- How can we measure impact?
- Where are opportunities to work together?
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| 11:00am |
Reports from breakout discussions
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| 11:30am |
Open discussion
Plans for follow up actions: |
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- What are the obstacles to increasing the impact of engineering society diversity programs?
- What resources are needed to strengthen existing programs?
- What can individual societies and organizations do?
- What can the group do as a whole?
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch - Members Room
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| 1:30pm |
Adjourn
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