Seminar Series | Women in (Engineering) COVID: The Impact of COVID on Women Engineers

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Racheida Lewis

Abstract

Women in the United States face challenges whenever they step into roles that historically ostracized them. This issue is particularly salient in engineering as recent diversity efforts aims for improving gender diversity in the field. However, the global pandemic COVID-19 has revealed that support for women in engineering still has a long way to go. In June 2020, Drs. Racheida Lewis (UGA) and Trina Fletcher (FIU) collected data from over 500 underrepresented students in engineering about how their academic experiences were impacted by COVID-19; at least 150 of participants were women. This talk will focus on the struggles of women in engineering during the COVID-19 crisis compared to their male counterparts and at the intersection of race.

Biography

Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering. She has been recognized as a Gates Millennium Scholar, GEM Associate Fellow, New Horizon Scholar, and a 2019 inductee into the Bouchet Honor Society. She completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech where she focused on the impact matriculation structures have on self-efficacy development in electrical and computer engineering students. As well, she received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia respectively. Racheida believes in creating a diverse engineering field and strives to do so through connecting with teaching, and mentoring future engineers. She has devoted her life to this mission through her leadership and lifetime membership in the National Society of Black Engineers. Ultimately, Racheida aspires to bridge together research and pedagogy within the academy to improve engineering education within the field and across disciplines.

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