1. Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math
Dr. Ruthie D. Lyle, PhD
ITT Technical Institute
3518 Westgate Drive, Suite 150
Durham, NC 27707
April 18, 2013
2. * Why and How
• enabling women towards
careers in STEM
* “Real-Life” STEM Divas
• Inspiration through snap-
shots
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4. * It’s Everywhere
Most colleges offer majors related to STEM
* It’s Important
Acquire skills to help solve pressing social problems
* It’s creative
Can se creativity in many different job, always new
challenges at work
* It’s team-oriented
Opportunity to work with a creative sometimes global
team
* Its valued, respected, and flexible and pays well
12. Dr. Ruthie D. Lyle, PhD
SaaS Technical Project Manager, IBM
Career Path
• Cloud Infrastructure Architect
• Patent Architect
• Performance Analyst
• EMC Hardware Design Engineer
• System Planning Engineer
• Research Fellow, AFOSR
Advice:
Own your life. Leverage networks and information sources to find out what
aligns with your passion ( things that make working and learning fun). Utilize
the web to “dig” for nuggets instead of waiting for someone to spoon feed you.
13. Lin Sun
Advisory Software Engineer, IBM
Career Path
• PureApplication System Virtual
Application Plugin Architect
• WebSphere OSGi Feature developer
• Apache Geronimo committer
• WebSphere community Edition developer
• Websphere Everyplace Access tester
Advice:
Don’t expect a different result when repeat the same thing. Try think and do
things differently to allow for innovation and inspiration. Leverage information
on the Internet to avoid asking simple and obvious questions.
14. Dr. Fonda Ingram, PhD
Senior Systems Engineer, SAS
Career Path
• Senior Systems Engineer
• Patent Engineer
• Technical Architect
• Competitive Intelligence Analysis
• Emerging Technologies Engineer
• Research Fellow - JPL
Advice:
Be quick to listen and slow anger. This philosophy works in your personal life and in
your professional life.
15. Bernadette A. Carter
Advisory Software Engineer, IBM
Career Path
•IBM Connections (Social Software)
Software Engineer
•IBM Quickr (Team Content)
Software Engineer
•IBM WebSphere Personalization
Software Engineer
•Master’s Grad Student – GEM Fellow
•Intel Intern
Advice:
Don’t limit yourself. Work hard. Use all of the talents you have.
Once you believe you can do something, you’re one step closer to doing it.
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17. www.ncwit.org
http://www.dotdiva.org/
Explore Computer Programming (Free!!)
Alice : alice.org
Scratch: scratch.mit.edu
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Editor's Notes
Target audience will be a diverse groupof female high school students and adults.
Despite the increasing number of computing jobs, interest in these majors and careers has steadily declined over the past decade. Fewer students also are enrolling in computer science and graduating with computer science degrees.If current trends continue, by 2018 the industry will only be able to fill half of its available jobs with candidates holding computer science bachelor’s degrees from U.S. universities.2
