When the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) hosted a March 11 panel on the changing face of engineering, it was readily apparent that the face to which they were referring is, more and more, a female one.
The panel, moderated by Google Chief Information Officer Ben Fried, was assembled in recognition of the fact that for the first time in history, three women are simultaneously leading the schools of engineering at three of New York City’s highly regarded universities, and it included NYU Tandon Dean Jelena Kovačević, Dean Gilda Barabino of the City College of New York Grove School of Engineering, and Dean Mary Cunningham Boyce of Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.