Like many rising seniors at Harvard each year, Jenna D. Lang â21 spent the summer before her final year searching for post-graduate job opportunities. This yearâs senior class, however, is graduating into a job market that looks radically different from what it did a year ago.
When Lang reached out to one small media company she hoped to work for, she learned that the coronavirus pandemic had left it struggling to hold on its existing employees, let alone hire new graduates.
âIâve run into that problem a couple of times with smaller organizations â that theyâre just not hiring this year, which is unfortunate because this is the year Iâm graduating,â Lang said.
This might be why there are few Black engineers in Big Tech
By The Washington Post
By Nitasha Tiku
For years, Google s recruiting department used a college ranking system to set budgets and priorities for hiring new engineers. Some schools such as Stanford University and MIT were predictably in the elite category, while state schools or institutions that churn out thousands of engineering grads annually, such as Georgia Tech, were assigned to tier 1 or tier 2.
But one category of higher education was missing from Google s ranking system, according to several current and former Google employees involved in recruitment, despite the company s pledges to promote racial diversity - historically Black colleges and universities, also known as HBCUs. That framework meant that those schools were at a lower priority for hiring, even though Google had said in 2014 that it wanted to partner with HBCUsas a way to recruit more minority talent.
Louisiana Tech University mathematics alumnae and professor emeritus Dr. Jenna Carpenter has been selected as the president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the national engineering education society dedicated to the professional needs of engineering educators.
Carpenter served in several leadership roles over 26 years with Louisiana Tech’s College of Engineering and Science (COES). She served as program chair of the mathematics and statistics program, director of multiple programs within the College, associate dean of administration and strategic initiatives, and associate dean of undergraduate studies for the COES.
During her tenure at Louisiana Tech, Carpenter was active in diversity and education initiatives, founding the Office for Women in Science and Engineering to provide professional development and mentoring opportunities for women faculty and students within the College. She also helped found the Louisiana Tech chapter of the National Aca
Tom Peterson
A distinguished national engineering leader has agreed to join the University of Wyoming as a senior strategic adviser to President Ed Seidel for science, technology and engineering.
Tom Peterson, most recently the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California-Merced, will assist the faculty and university leadership in building interdisciplinary technology, science and engineering research and education programs at UW. The position, which begins July 1, also carries the title of visiting professor in the dean’s office of UW’s College of Engineering and Applied Science.
“I’m delighted that Tom has agreed to advise us as we take the next steps toward achieving the vision of UW’s Tier-1 Engineering Initiative,” Seidel says. “He has an exceptional record of national leadership in engineering, and in university administration across all areas. I’m confident his expertise, connections and insights will help us move forward and reach
March 5, 2021
Tom Peterson
A distinguished national engineering leader has agreed to join the University of Wyoming as a senior strategic adviser to President Ed Seidel for science, technology and engineering.
Tom Peterson, most recently the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California-Merced, will assist the faculty and university leadership in building interdisciplinary technology, science and engineering research and education programs at UW. The position, which begins July 1, also carries the title of visiting professor in the dean’s office of UW’s College of Engineering and Applied Science.
“I’m delighted that Tom has agreed to advise us as we take the next steps toward achieving the vision of UW’s Tier-1 Engineering Initiative,” Seidel says. “He has an exceptional record of national leadership in engineering, and in university administration across all areas. I’m confident his expertise, connections and insights will help us move for