Inventing the Future Suryanarayana focuses on sustainability When Lalitha Suryanarayana says, “The only way to know about the future is to create it,” she means it. And with a career spanning impressive, influential roles in R&D, product development, and corporate strategy, she is doing it. For more about this article see link below. To access the PDF version of this … [Read more...] about Women to Watch
Past Columns / Departments
Pipelining/Attractive Programs for Women
Finding My Place in Technology Creating a win-win situation through diversity As a woman engineer, Latina, and member of the LGBTQ community, I’m often asked about my career path and the challenges I’ve faced along the way. Working in such a male-dominated field, I feel fortunate to have ended up at an organization whose culture genuinely supports women. For more about … [Read more...] about Pipelining/Attractive Programs for Women
Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women: The Women in Power Sector Professional Network in South Asia Initiative: Increasing the participation of women in South Asia’s energy and power sector
When the World Bank was looking to build an initiative aimed at promoting female engineering in South Asia, it contacted Ramalatha Marimuthu for assistance. Marimuthu is world renowned for her support of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as a retired professor, an IEEE Impact Creator, former chair of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), founder of … [Read more...] about Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women: The Women in Power Sector Professional Network in South Asia Initiative: Increasing the participation of women in South Asia’s energy and power sector
WIE From Around the World: Applying Machine Learning to Health Care: Improving access for all
Growing up in India, Dr. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer listened to her mother talk about her work as a physics professor who taught electronics, and it piqued her interest in engineering. She calls this a position of both privilege and good fortune, in that having a female role model so highly educated was not the norm. While at the time, the concept of education in India was seen … [Read more...] about WIE From Around the World: Applying Machine Learning to Health Care: Improving access for all
Letter From the Editor: WePower Women
As the IEEE Awards Board chair, I had a virtual front row seat at the 2021 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges (VIC) Summit & Honors ceremony [1] . I have attended many of these ceremonies before, including the ceremony when the first female IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, Dr. Millie Dresselhaus, was honored, whom we featured in the June 2016 issue of IEEE Women in … [Read more...] about Letter From the Editor: WePower Women