From the already-small number of female students enrolled in undergraduate engineering programs, very few continue to pursue a career in academia. As a result, encountering a woman holding a doctoral degree in engineering is uncommon, and within the research and academia field, in particular, such an encounter becomes rare. However, one visit to the Advanced Realtime Simulation Lab (ARSLab) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, shows a different perspective. Women, including myself, represent five out of six postdoctoral fellows working at the ARSLab, holding a doctoral degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, while researching in the field of engineering. Each of us has a unique background, challenges, and dreams.
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What Did You Do During the Pandemic?
The title of this article will become an important interview question from prospective employers. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique generation of engineering graduates who have had to deal with extraordinary challenges. Thus, employers are going to want to know how young professionals have managed to survive and thrive through this crisis.
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Hoda Khalil
Hoda Khalil is a postdoctoral fellow at the Advanced Real-time Simulation Lab and an instructor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University.
Karen Panetta
Karen Panetta (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, in 1987 and 1994, respectively.
