Moving Beyond the Double-Bind: WIE and MEP Programs and Serving the Needs of Women of Color in Engineering

Lisa M Frehill, National Action Council for Minorities in EngineeringLisa Frehill is the Director of Research, Evaluation and Policy at the National Action Council for Mi-norities in Engineering (NACME), a Senior Program Ofcer with the Committee on Women in Science,Engineering, and Medicine at the National Research Council, and a senior analyst at Energetics Technol-ogy Center.Since earning her doctoral degree Dr. Frehill has developed expertise in the science and engineeringworkforce with a focus on how gender and ethnicity impact access to careers in these elds. While she wasan associate professor of sociology at New Mexico State University, she was the Principal Investigator andProgram Director of the National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE: Institutional Transformationprogram, which sought to increase women’s recruitment, retention and advancement in academic scienceand engineering. She has consulted with numerous colleges and universities on gender equity issues.More recently, Frehill has worked with the Society of Women Engineers on a study of retention in theengineering workforce and the annual review of literature on women in engineering. She was the lead au-thor of the Motorola Foundation-funded study released by NACME in 2008 titled ”Confronting the ’New’American Dilemma: Underrepresented Minorities in Engineering: A Data-Based Look at Diversity” andthe NACME databook.Research in progress includes projects funded by the National Science Foundation on women’s interna-tional participation and collaboration in science and engineering and on career outcomes of engineeringbachelor’s degree recipients. In addition, she is working on analyses of supply and demand for engineersand scientists.Support for this research was provided by NACME with additional support via a grant from the NationalScience Foundation, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering HRD#0827461. Any ndings orconclusions are those of the author and do not reect those of the National Science Foundation.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011