Dean Beena Sukumaran reflects on gender parity in engineering in Cincinnati Magazine
Currently, women make up only 16 percent of the engineering workforce. Find out what CEC is doing to address this gender disparity at the university level.
Dean Beena Sukumaran reflects on gender parity in engineering in Cincinnati Magazine
Beena Sukumaran, Ph.D., the Dinesh and ILA Paliwal Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, was recently featured in In the published piece, Dean Sukumaran reflected on gender parity in engineering and computer science fields.
In a world where women currently make up only 34 percent of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce and only 16 percent of the engineering workforce, the article emphasizes the steady efforts CEC has made towared gender parity under Dean Sukumaran's leadership.
"Last year, Miami’s College of Engineering and Computing ºÚÁÏÉçÇø body was made up of 21 percent women. This year, close to 24 percent of the first year ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs are women," reads the article. to learn about some of the steps CEC is taking toward achieving true equity in engineering and computer science.