“How to encourage young women in Communications Engineering – best practices and experiences”

It was held on Tuesday 21st March

Organized by IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Standing Committee and N2Women

Organizers: Ana Garcia Armada and Meryem Simsek

Sponsored by Intel

More information: http://wcnc2017.ieee-wcnc.org/content/wice-event

The panel brought together interesting perspectives from the industry and academia on how to encourage and support young women that are initiating their careers in Communications Engineering.

Invited talk by Asha Keddy, General Manager of Next Generation and Standards at Intel Corporation

Panelists:

Patricia Robb, Product Development Executive at Intel

Poornima Lalwaney, Senior Director at Qualcomm

Elza Erkip, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Aylin Yener, Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford and Dean’s Fellow and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State