Marginalia
ZOOM PRESENTATION / Thursday, March 24, 2022 / 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Dr. Donna Riley
Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education
Purdue University
In this talk, I reflect on the condition of marginality for women in engineering and its occasional affordances of creative insight, liberatory risk, and daring community, despite incalculable inequity. Pushed to the edges of disciplines, we find peculiar perspicacity. Ignored and unseen in the mainstream, our mentors emerge from preposterous places. Unaccountably uncredited, our work under the radar is no less revolutionary. Solidarity is our secret superpower. Using a queer mix of storytelling and personal reflection, I reveal that which often goes unsaid.
About Donna
Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Riley joined Purdue in 2017 from Virginia Tech, where she was Professor and Interim Head in the Department of Engineering Education. From 2013-2015 she served as Program Director for Engineering Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Riley spent thirteen years as a founding faculty member of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. In 2005 she received a NSF CAREER award on implementing and assessing pedagogies of liberation in engineering classrooms. Riley is the author of two books, Engineering and Social Justice and Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems, both published by Morgan and Claypool. Riley earned a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy. She is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.