Linda Lucas (left) with the inaugural Lucas Leadership Award recipient Rebecca Richards-Kortum (right) and Civil Engineering student Mariam Massoud (center) at Richards-Kortum's lecture on March 4, 2019. The biomedical engineering program, a joint department in the School of Medicine and School of Engineering, drew her to Birmingham, Kimbel later told UAB News, along with “the major emphasis placed on undergraduate research.” Her career goal is “to be a surgeon one day and use my biomedical engineering and medical training to be on the forefront of medicine and doing more projects to help people like Kendall,” Kimbel said. Then, in answer to a question from anchor Craig Melvin, the Huntsville native announced that she would be attending UAB ( watch the full segment here). In late February, Kimbel appeared on NBC’s “TODAY” show to talk about the lightweight prosthetic foot she had designed for Marine Corps veteran amputee Kendall Bane. Where are you going to school next year? Ashley Kimbel is probably one of the few high school seniors in America not playing football or basketball to answer this question on live, national television. In an appearance on the "TODAY" show, Kimbel announced she was coming to UAB to study biomedical engineering. Meet five students, alumni and faculty who are giving today’s future engineers a glimpse of what the field has to offer.Īshley Kimbel (bottom right) designed a lightweight prosthetic foot for Marine Corps veteran Kendall Bane. I think the example those students set is perhaps a factor contributing to higher percentages of female students enrolling in UAB engineering than many of our peers.” “Whether you look at our Engineering Ambassadors, student professional organizations or annual scholarship and award winners, female students are consistently high profile and successful. Meanwhile, about 27 percent of UAB School of Engineering undergraduates in 2019 are female, “and they are strongly represented among the student leadership across all of our departments,” said Dean Iwan Alexander. The national average in 2015, by comparison, was 18.5 percent, essentially unchanged since 2000. four-year public institutions (the highest in Alabama) with 23.8 percent of its bachelor’s degrees going to women. The School of Engineering ranked number 27 among all U.S. In February 2019, the Chronicle of Higher Education produced a report on the colleges leading the way in enrolling and graduating women in engineering fields. Throughout its history, the School of Engineering has attracted female innovators who have inspired others to follow in their footsteps. And that hurts everyone, because “if women are not adequately represented in engineering and science fields, then society misses the creativity, innovation and contributions that gender can bring.” Many of the proposed solutions for engineering’s gender gap are similarly large in scope - more on that below - but part of the answer, Sisiopiku said, comes down to a matter of one-on-one: giving girls role models in the field so they can see “that it is possible for them, too, to become successful engineers.” “The gender gap in STEM is a worldwide phenomenon,” said Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D., associate professor in the UAB School of Engineering and director of the school’s transportation engineering program. Overall, women make up 46.9 percent of the workforce in the United States. They have a tricky one in their own profession, where women comprise only 13 percent of the workforce, according to the U.S.
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