Creating Opportunities for Women Leaders

August 26, 2021

A Message from the Associate Dean

I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the first in-person week of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering And Science (ELATES) program earlier this month as a Learning Community Advisor. ELATES is “a national leadership development program designed to advance senior women faculty in academic engineering, computer science, and other STEM fields into effective institutional leadership roles within their schools and universities” and is created and run by Drexel. A powerful program that elevates our stature within the engineering community, ELATES’ new Executive Director is Dean Sharon Walker, an alum of the program herself. Please read below for more information about ELATES and our 2021-2022 Drexel Engineering ELATES Fellows.

Caroline Schauer, PhD

Associate Dean, Research and Faculty Affairs

News

Clearing Pathways for Women

Dean Sharon L. Walker, PhD, is part of a team of Drexel leaders studying systemic roadblocks for midcareer women in academia. Read more.

Dean Walker has also been tapped to lead Drexel ELATES, a leadership development program for women faculty.

Developing Next-Gen EEGs

A collaboration between Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania is hoping to develop an electroencephalography device using MXenes. Read more.

Announcements

Find Program Administrators with a Click

The Office of Research and Innovation have developed a new website listing program administrators across the University. Feel free to peruse the site and keep it for your own reference.

Scheduled Outage: Drexel Library Resources

Access to the majority of library online resources (including journal articles, ebooks, databases, and streaming videos) will be unavailable Wednesday, Sept. 8 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. This is due to a a planned upgrade to the EZproxy authentication software. Get more information.

CONGRATULATIONS

David Han, PhD, Bruce Eisenstein Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received funds from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled “Passive Sonar Signal Processing Applied Research.” This project seeks to utilize and build upon various advances in machine learning to improve detection, classification, and localization of acoustic sources in shallow water environments.

Seen and Heard

Abi Aghayere, PhD, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, was quoted extensively in a series of Miami Herald stories released as a special section on Aug. 8 looking at the causes of the tragic Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida.

An Aug. 2 Philadelphia Inquirer story about transmission of the COVID-19 delta variant outdoors that quoted Charles Haas, PhD, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering, was excerpted in a related Aug. 6 NJ.com story.

Joseph Martin, PhD, professor emeritus of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, was interviewed in an Aug. 2 WCAU-TV (NBC-10) newscast about how the bipartisan infrastructure bill could improve rail transit in the Northeast corridor.