Building a More Supportive Climate for Women in STEM: Discoveries Made, Lessons Learned

Abstract

Dr. Carpenter is Associate Dean for Administration and Strategic Initiatives and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. She also directs the Office for Women in Science and Engineering. She is PI of Louisiana Tech’s NSF ADVANCE grant to improve the success of women faculty. She was co-PI on the NSF grant which developed the WEPAN Knowledge Center and webinar series. She is Chair of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program National Steering Committee. She served for six years on the Board of Directors for WEPAN. She served on the National Advisory Panel for the Society for Women Engineer’s Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) Project; as Vice President for Professional Interest Councils on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); and is Director-at-Large for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division. She regularly reviews for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division, the Frontiers in Education Conference, National Science Foundation programs (including the Graduate Fellows Program and ADVANCE), the Journal for Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, and has reviewed for the NAE Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education (CASEE) Applying Research to Practice (ARP) series. She currently co-advises diversity and mentoring programs for the NSF-funded Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Application (LA-SiGMA) program; sits on the External Advisory Board for the NSF ADVANCE project at the University of West Florida; and is on the Leadership Team for the Louisiana Girls Collaborative Project.