New Jersey Institute of Technology opened Women’s History Month hosting a regional female engineering conference. Keynoting the event, NJIT Provost Dr. Priscilla Nelson drove home "Diversity in Engineering," this year's theme for Society of Women Engineers, an organization that stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers.
More than 200 female engineering students and professionals from 68 engineering schools on the east coast took part in the conference held at New Jersey's technological research university.
“Welcoming and retaining women in the professional environment of the engineering workplace has been a challenge,” said Nelson. “NJIT has put itself on the forefront of making sure female voices are sought after, listened to and valued by peers and in the organizations of engineering enterprises.”
Later in March, computer scientist Deborah Estrin, PhD, professor of computer science at University of California, Los Angeles, and founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing funded by the National Science Foundation will discuss computer-networking systems. Estrin will discuss remote sensing and wireless networking systems that allow people to sense the world—including natural, human and built environments.
The talk, set for March 21, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. in NJIT’s Campus Center Ballroom, is free and open to the public.
