Closing Speaker - Betty Shanahan, CAE, F.SWE

Sustaining Success for Women Engineers
Engineers must provide the creativity and innovation that will drive sustainable development both domestically and globally. This creativity will be enhanced from the different approaches, challenges to traditional thinking, and different styles that a diverse group can leverage. However, the Anglo-, male-dominated engineering workplace typically doesn't offer an inclusive environment where all team members can effectively participate while being authentic. Betty will present some of what she learned -- frequently through SWE -- to help you sustain your success in the engineering by considering balancing adapting to the environment while feeling authentic to ourselves.

About The Speaker
Betty Shanahan became the executive director and CEO for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in 2002. Prior to joining SWE, Betty spent 24 years in development, engineering management, and marketing for the electronics and software industries. Over her career has been responsible for products and technologies in document viewing and conversion, parallel processing, signal-processing, and computer-aided software engineering. Most recently she was the vice president of product management and marketing for the Software Components Division of Stellent, Inc.

Betty has earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, a Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Betty is a fellow life member of SWE, a Certified Association Executive, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Society of Association Executives.