More than 60 women engineers and students gathered on May 27, 1950, hoping to create a unified national organization supporting and advancing women in engineering. With more than 50,000 members spread across the globe today, the Society of Women Engineers is building on the ...

A flurry of executive orders and presidential actions announced by the U.S. federal administration marked the start of 2025, including an executive order that targeted diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, or DEIA, programs at all educational institutions in the U...

More than 60 women engineers and students gathered on May 27, 1950, hoping to create a unified national organization supporting and advancing women in engineering. With more than 50,000 members spread across the globe today, the Society of Women Engineers is building on the ...

“Why weren’t we ever taught this at university?” Jo Filshie Browning, a science communications consultant and author, has heard this sentiment from dozens of scientists she counsels on best practices for communicating their work to the public. A former journalist, Filshie...

The political and legal targeting of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the United States continues roiling the waters for corporations, large and small. Despite research demonstrating that a diverse workforce improves problem-solving, employee satisfaction and ret...

Researchers in a variety of industries — from fashion to construction and from oyster reefs to adhesives — are developing the next generation of sustainable materials to create high-tech products never before dreamed of. Some researchers are harnessing the power of living or...

Εvery four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers releases its report card on the state of America’s infrastructure, grading how the nation’s often unseen but critically important energy, water, waste, transportation, and other backbone systems are doing in their rol...

ROLE: Senior Engineer Name: Umi Kerre Employer: Civil Aviation Authority Location: Nairobi, Kenya At A Glance Current job title  Senior engineer Years in the field  12  Years of education beyond secondary school  5  Title of ...

More than 60 women engineers and students gathered on May 27, 1950, hoping to create a unified national organization supporting and advancing women in engineering. With more than 50,000 members spread across the globe today, the Society of Women Engineers is building on the ...

In 1950, less than 1% of working engineers in the United States were women. The doors that had opened for women in STEM during World War II all but closed as men returned to their jobs and careers. In newspaper clippings and interviews from that time, the few women who persi...

Though the Trump administration wasted no time replacing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies with what it calls “a colorblind and merit-based” system, men who regularly and strongly support women’s advancement in the STEM workplace say personal intentions and business ...

The Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative, or WCEC, was created in 2021 to bring together organizations interested in increasing the retention and advancement of women of color in the engineering workforce.1 This partnership network of almost 30 professional engineerin...