MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Committee for Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Groups is to develop, implement and oversee new and existing activities aimed at broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the activities of DED.
Welcome to BPart!
Over the past 10 years, the Broadening Participation committee has met during the annual professional development workshop at the ASME IDETC, targeted at individuals in our community who are members of underrepresented groups in engineering, such as women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, to name a few. Our committee seeks to develop, implement and oversee new and existing activities aimed at broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities
in the activities of the Design Engineering Division of (DED) the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
This year, we are creating a space for IDETC attendees to convene, network, and learn about issues related to broadening participation in engineering through a series of virtual events and platforms intended to engage members of underrepresented groups in engineering and their allies in dialogue. To learn more about the events we have planned for IDETC 2020 and how to get involved, check out the “How to Participate” and the “Code of Conduct” pages that we’re using for these events. To learn more about our committee and the data we have used to generate our insights, check out our accepted 2020 Design Engineering Conference paper here [link coming once the paper becomes digitally available].
2021 Virtual Conference
Workshop
Workshop
In 2021, Bpart will be hosting a workshop on Digital Presence on Monday 16 August 2021 at 9.00 PM GMT (convert to your local time using this link here).
The Slack channel will be active during the conference to chat about anything. Join b-partworkspace.slack.com
FOUNDING
The committee was formed in the fall of 2008 by seven founding members with interest from even more wanting to join and make a difference. The efforts of the committee toward broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities have involved a number of activities, the largest of which has been the annual workshops held at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (ASME IDETC).
The founding members included:
Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon
University
Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
Achille Messac, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Janis Terpenny, Pennsylvania State University (then Virginia Tech), chair
Deborah Thurston, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Judy Vance, Iowa State University
Gloria Wiens, University of Florida
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Committee Chair
Charlotte de Vries, Pennsylvania State University
Workshop Chair
Elizabeth Starkey, Penn State University
Other members by alphabet
Ambrosio Valencia-Romero, Stevens Institute of Technology
Brian Sylcott, East Carolina University
Christine Toh, University of Nebraska
Janet Allen, University of Oklahoma
Jose Lugo, University of Puerto Rico
Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kathy Jacobson, Lockheed Martin, Retired
Murtuza Shergadwala, University of California
Nicole Damen, University of Nebraska
Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University
