DMMM4: Career Development Tools and Strategies
Sponsored by: TMS: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Program Organizers: Aeriel Murphy-Leonard, Ohio State University; Mark Carroll, Honeywell Aerospace; Blythe Clark, Sandia National Laboratories; Kevin Cunningham, ATI Specialty Alloys & Components; Lauren Garrison, Commonwealth Fusion Systems; Atieh Moridi, Cornell University; Ashleigh Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Cordill, Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science; Jonathan Madison, National Science Foundation; Mitra Taheri, Johns Hopkins University; Clarissa Yablinsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wednesday 2:00 PM
March 2, 2022
Room: Grand Ballroom F
Location: Anaheim Marriott
Session Chair: Ashleigh Wright, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Blythe G. Clark, Sandia National Laboratories; Mark Carroll, Tenneco
2:00 PM Invited
Bruised But Not Broken: Storytelling as a Method to Share to the Experiences and Persistence Strategies of African American Women in Engineering Degree Programs: Stacie LeSure1; 1Engineers for Equity, LLC
While African American women represent a large void in engineering degrees awarded, the relationship between their representation and persistence has received very little attention (Lord et al., 2009). This presentation will share the findings from a qualitative investigation that focused specifically on African American women in engineering. It is presumed that they faced unique barriers in their engineering degree programs (Lord et al., 2009). This study answered the central research question: How do African American females resist or overcome stereotype threat and persist in engineering? It is grounded in three theoretical frameworks: (a) Stereotype threat (STT); (b) Critical Race Theory (CRT); and (c) Intersectionality. The presentation will share inspiring stories of resilience and strategies to help participants persist in engineering degree programs.
2:50 PM
Peer-to-Peer Mentoring to Support Career Development: Blythe Clark1; 1Sandia National Laboratories
When we think of mentoring, we often think of finding someone more experienced than us to meet with 1:1. However, there can be enormous value in peer-to-peer mentoring---establishing a cohort of individuals at a similar stage of their career and with similar career goals---to support, challenge, and uplift one another. Come learn about this incredibly powerful form of mentoring from someone who has benefited from it in her own career, as well as how to form your own peer mentoring group.
3:10 PM
NOW ON-DEMAND ONLY - Tools and Strategies to Succeed in Your Career with the Attributes of an Effective Leader: Saleem Al Dajani1; Ibrahim Almojel2; 1MIT/UCB-NE; 2Saudi Industrial Development Fund
We live in an exciting time with empowering leadership initiatives and opportunities emerging all over the world. To succeed in your career with the attributes of a leader, you need to become a leader who is ambitious, takes initiative, empowers your team, and leads with passion. By continuing to invest in yourself with continuous education, having the right mindset to own your future, choosing the right people to work with and learn from, and becoming comfortable with failure, you can develop to become an effective leader in your field and in your career. Here we use Saudi Arabia as an example. The attributes, tools and strategies presented are highlighted by leadership that are young with the sky-high ambition to make bets on the youth as well as the willingness to iterate over tough reversible and irreversible decisions.
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Panel Discussion on Career Development: Join our invited speaker alongside several of our TMS members as they share insights into career development. Learn how they have invested in their own and others’ career development, hear ideas for how to expand your career horizons, and ask questions about career development from this group of panelists devoted to supporting retention of diversity in STEM. Panel members include: Stacie LeSure, Gabriel Lievebare, JC Zhao, Jim Yurko, and Amit Misra. Moderated by Blythe Clark.
5:00 PM Career Development for a Diverse Workforce: Networking Event: Join us for a networking event focused on sharing best practices to support career development for a diverse workforce. Whether you have lots of experience in career development or are just starting on your journey, we would love to have your perspective and questions at this session. Tables will be arranged to focus on key topics, and there will be opportunity to rotate tables and topics through the event. Participants can expect to leave inspired and connected to new contacts from across TMS.