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NEW FACES IN HIGH PLACES
ASEE Prism, Summer 2004
THE NUMBER OF women in engineering remains small, but that hasn't stopped them from advancing to high-profile positions within the profession. Currently, two leading engineering societies have women presidents, the immediate past presidents of two more are women, and a woman is president-elect of another. Teresa H. Helmlinger is president of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Helmlinger is the assistant vice chancellor for extension and engagement at North Carolina State University. At the American Society of Civil Engineers, the president is Patricia D. Galloway. She's also the CEO of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, which does construction consulting. Susan A. Skemp is the immediate past president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Skemp is a manager at the aerospace firm, Pratt & Whitney. The immediate past president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers is Dianne Doreland. She's the dean of engineering at Rowan University in New Jersey. The president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education is Sherra Kerns, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, and also its vice president for innovation and research.
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That five engineering societies have so recently been helmed by women could help make engineering more attractive to young females.
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