Founded in 1998 as the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Graduate Women's Group, the Stanford ME Women and Gender Minorities Group is a collection of graduate students dedicated to fostering a sense of community and environment to empower graduate and postdoctoral women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming researchers in engineering at Stanford University.
We aim to provide opportunities for professional network development, to create avenues for informal mentorship, and to make space for discussions on topics that may be of particular interest to gender marginalized researchers in engineering. Such topics include: professional relationships, planning for a career and family, challenges of breaking into male-dominated fields, finding mentors in the workplace/academia, and opportunities that science and engineering provide for gender marginalized researchers.
In particular, in cooperation with our current faculty sponsor (Professor Allison Okamura) and past advisor (Emeritus Professor Sheri Sheppard), we offer a seminar entitled "ENGR311A: Perspectives of Women in Engineering" each winter. We invite influential women in industry, academia, and government to share stories and lessons from their lives with time for discussion, so that graduate students can meet important role models, learn from shared experiences, and reflect on their own personal journeys so far.
We also host an annual welcome event for new, returning, and former members of the School of Engineering's graduate and post-graduate community (see Events page for more details). We encourage communication among students and between students and faculty. While the events sponsored by the ME Women and Gender Minorities Group are targeted at graduate engineering students, we welcome everyone! Please feel free to contact us for more information (see the Contact & Mailing List page).
The ME Women and Gender Minorities Group gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Sandia National Laboratories, General Motors, Boeing, the Vice Provost of Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering Alumni Relations Program.
We aim to provide opportunities for professional network development, to create avenues for informal mentorship, and to make space for discussions on topics that may be of particular interest to gender marginalized researchers in engineering. Such topics include: professional relationships, planning for a career and family, challenges of breaking into male-dominated fields, finding mentors in the workplace/academia, and opportunities that science and engineering provide for gender marginalized researchers.
In particular, in cooperation with our current faculty sponsor (Professor Allison Okamura) and past advisor (Emeritus Professor Sheri Sheppard), we offer a seminar entitled "ENGR311A: Perspectives of Women in Engineering" each winter. We invite influential women in industry, academia, and government to share stories and lessons from their lives with time for discussion, so that graduate students can meet important role models, learn from shared experiences, and reflect on their own personal journeys so far.
We also host an annual welcome event for new, returning, and former members of the School of Engineering's graduate and post-graduate community (see Events page for more details). We encourage communication among students and between students and faculty. While the events sponsored by the ME Women and Gender Minorities Group are targeted at graduate engineering students, we welcome everyone! Please feel free to contact us for more information (see the Contact & Mailing List page).
The ME Women and Gender Minorities Group gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Sandia National Laboratories, General Motors, Boeing, the Vice Provost of Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering Alumni Relations Program.
The Mechanical Engineering Women and Gender Minorities Group is a collection of students dedicated to fostering a sense of community and environment to empower graduate and postdoctoral women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming researchers in engineering at Stanford University. People of all genders are welcome!
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The ME Women and Gender Minorities Group gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Sandia National Laboratories, Boeing, General Motors, the Associated Students of Stanford University, the Vice Provost of Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering Alumni Relations Program.
