Laura Bottomley
Dr. Laura Bottomley is the Director of Women in Engineering (WIE), Engineering Education and The Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach (TEP) and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education at NC State University. Under Bottomley, NC State’s Women in Engineering program is successfully boosting the number of women engineers in academia and industry. The percentage of women in NC State’s first year engineering program grew from 14% in 2004 to 31% in 2020. WIE was selected as the outstanding program for 2008 by WEPAN, the
Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network and featured in Prism Magazine in 2015 for it success. With TEP, Dr. Bottomley and her colleagues reach more than 20,000 students, teachers and parents each year through camps for K-12 students, programs that send college students into schools, and teacher workshops in STEM and engineering for K-12 teachers. Bottomley has secured over $8 million in external funding t