Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 16:24:02 PS
From: shor@bedrock.ECE.ORST.EDU (Molly Shor)
To: CAST10 Email List
Subject: Announcement - database/email alias for Women in Control

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Women in Control List - special alias/list for women in the control
                        engineering/control theory area from any
                        engineering, mathematics or science department,
                        both students and faculty, or from industry
 
I am compiling a list of "Women in Control" and constructing an e-mail
alias of women in the control area.  I am also constructing a second
e-mail alias of men who are mentors to women and/or who are interested
in issues related to the support and retention of women in the control
field.

These lists will be used for a number of purposes.  They will be used
to construct an informal, or formal, network uniting women in the
control field, and also a network for all those concerned about
retaining more women in the control field.  They will be used to post
announcements of use to women in the control field, including job
postings, information about special programs that support women and
minority research, change of address information, some general
discussion, etc.  They will be used to help the nominations committees
of the professional organizations in the control field promote
successful professional women in the field.  They will also be used to
gather information about the progress women are making professionally
in this field and the progress the profession and the universities are
making retaining women in the control field.
 
This effort was begun by the ad hoc subcommittee on Women in Control of
the Membership Activities Committee of the IEEE Control Systems
Society, established this year at the suggestion of CSS President Herb
Rauch.  Two of the NSF Program Directors, Maria Burka, Chemical
Reaction Processes, and R. Baheti, Engineering Systems, attended the
organizational meeting for this effort, held at ACC this summer.  It is
intended to include women in all areas related to control, not
restricted to members of IEEE CSS.

We have compiled address information from over 70 women in the control
area.  Please send additions.   Please supply also, for the list,
information on your position or title, academic rank and tenure status,
advisor's name, your university affiliation, research interests, and
current involvement in professional society activities.   Send this
information to "shor@ece.orst.edu".

In addition, we are interested in compiling a list of issues that you
believe need to be addressed to benefit the progress of women in
control engineering.  Please send responses to this query to
"bozenna@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu".
 
                                -Molly H. Shor, shor@ece.orst.edu
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