Women in Mechanical Engineering

Section I: Introduction.- Energetic Trailblazers: Kate Gleason, Edith Clarke, and Maria Telkes.- Mechanical Engineering Micronarratives and/as Changing Stories of Women in STEM.- In Pursuit of an Inclusive Learning Environment in Engineering.- Section II: New Perspectives.- Educating the Next Generation of Mechanical Engineers in Fluid-Thermal Sciences.- Circular Systems and the Culture of Collaboration.- How to Stop Imposter Syndrome from Sabotaging Your Career.- From Brazil to the World: The Journey of a Fluid Dynamics Experimentalist.- Remaining Curious: Re-thinking Contributions and Opportunities as Mechanical Engineers.- The Changing Landscape of Mechanical Engineering: Learning to Embrace my Ecofeminist Identity within the Elitism of Engineering.- Section III: Research/Technical.- From Watching Planes in the Sky to Making Turbines More Efficient.- Non-linear Pathways into Mechanical Engineering.- My Journey from Fixing the Lawnmower to a Career in Fuels and Combustion.- Do Pipeline Engineers Want to Pollute the Environment?.- Intelligent Control to Reduce Vehicle Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.- Silicon Solar Photovoltaics: Slow Ascent to Exponential Growth.- From Nuclear Engineering to Roller Coasters: The Ride of a Lifetime.- Section IV: Career Journeys.- Unveiling My Engineering Identity.- Connected by the Environment: The Unique yet Intertwined Journeys of Two Energy and Water Researchers.- From Spacecrafts to Biocomposites: The Story of a Shuttle Launch, a Recession, a Surprise Doctorate, and Motherhood.- My Most Valuable Lessons in Energy Engineering.- I Never Claimed to be a Lady.- Severing the Links of the 'Gordian Knot': Envisioning Doctoral-Level Engineering Education and Workforce Sustainability as a Key to Environmental Sustainability.

Professor Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. Appointments at RIT include the Founding Director of AdvanceRIT Program (2012-2020), the Co-Chair of the President's Commission on Women (2007-2020), the inaugural Sr. Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty (2010 -2018), the Founding Director of WE@RIT (2004-2011) and the inaugural Kate Gleason Endowed Chair (2003-2009). Dr. Bailey teaches courses and conducts research related to Thermodynamics, engineering and public policy, engineering education, and gender in engineering and science. Professor Bailey serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on several NSF funded efforts, including the RIT ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant (2012-2019, PI), the ADVANCE IT-Catalyst grant (2008-2011, PI), the ADVANCE Partnership grant focused on faculty salary equity practices and study (2021-2026, co-PI), and a PFE:RIEF grant focused on "Understanding the Relationships between Gender, Self-Efficacy, and Extracurricular Activities in the Professional Formation of Engineers" (2021-2023, co-PI). The projects that she has led have resulted in impactful new programs, practices, and policies as well as a dedicated ADVANCE unit within the Office of the Provost and the women in engineering center, WE@RIT, within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, both of which have been nationally recognized. In 2008, WE@RIT received the WEPAN Women in Engineering Program Award in recognition of the program's offerings and impact for diversifying engineering. More recently, in August 2021, RIT was one of ten US universities awarded the National Institute of Health (NIH) Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral Science, which is in large part due to the impact of the RIT ADVANCE program. Dr. Bailey is also a recipient of the national Maria Mitchell Women