Women in Materials Science & Engineering Breakfast
Wednesday, April 27
7:00 am
San Francisco Marriot Marquis, Club Room
Men and women of materials science are invited to attend this discussion and complimentary breakfast. Advance sign-up required; sign up at MRS Information at the Moscone West by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, April 26.
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Speaker: Fiona M. Doyle (view bio)
Donald H. McLaughlin Professor of Mineral Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley;
Topic: Women and Materials Science and Engineering–Is the “Leaky Pipeline” the Wrong Metaphor? (view abstract)
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Abstract
Many discussions of the status and degree of participation of women in technical professions refer to the metaphor of the “leaky pipeline” to represent a journey that many embark upon, but few complete. Fiona Doyle believe that this metaphor is inappropriate, even counterproductive, to efforts to diversify the materials profession. Who wants to embark upon a journey with such high odds of being lost? Who wants to be isolated from the real world while being educated? She notes that individuals enter the materials field at different stages of their careers–undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, professional–rather than entering at a specific “inlet”. Similarly, the interactions between materials experts and those in other disciplines (which may result in people moving to other fields of specialization) shouldn’t be considered a loss, but rather a cross-fertilization vital to a broad engineering profession capable of responding to today’s most pressing technical challenges. A metaphor that better captures the reality of the materials profession seems essential for diversifying the field.
Fiona Doyle Biography
Fiona Doyle obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge, and her master’s and doctorate in hydrometallurgy from Imperial College, University of London. She joined the faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and was appointed to the Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering in 1998. She served as Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 2002 to 2005, and Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Berkeley from 2005 to 2009. She is now Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. Doyle’s research focuses on solution chemistry in the processing and behavior of minerals, materials, wastes, and effluents. The applications range in scale from the templated precipitation of nanoscaled structures, through chemical mechanical planarization in the electronics industry, to the remediation of contamination at abandoned and inactive mine sites. Doyle has taught undergraduate and graduate courses relating to engineering chemistry, mineral engineering, surface and colloid properties of materials, solution processing of materials, corrosion, and electrochemistry.
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