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IEEE Women in Engineering

Santa Clara Valley Section



Perspectives on Women in Engineering

Guest Speaker: Jane Evans

Date: Thursday, Dec. 5th, 2002.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Cogswell Polytechnical College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA (directions)
RSVP: Send an email to Wendy Wong
Agenda: Jane Evans will discuss:
  • Predictions for the future employment opportunities for women in Engineering.
  • How women should prepare to make significant contributions to intellectual property.
  • Recommendations for a female engineer for taking charge of her career path and avoiding bobbing like a "cork in the ocean" bouncing from job to job without any direction.
  • A perspective on how women can "write their own chapter" for their careers and personal lives.
  • Skills/qualities that women can be particularly good at that they should try to promote at work.
  • Areas, in terms of people skills, that women could try to improve to become more successful in their professional pursuits.

Refreshment will be served.
About Jane Evans: After Mrs. Evans became the first woman Engineering graduate to be hired by Hewlett-Packard, she played a significant role in HP's development. She worked on instrumentation projects such as the first atomic clock and "RTE," a real-time operating system. Over a span of 25 years, she established programs for marketing these products and helped introduce these technologies to hundreds of engineers and customers. Subsequently, Jane provided leadership to the HP philanthropy department in equipment grants to many colleges and universities. Jane has served in the IEEE at local, regional, and national levels. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Women Engineers. She has received, among other honors, the IEEE Centennial Medal, San Jose State University's Engineering Award of Distinction and, in 1999, Jane was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. Jane Evans is the first woman Electrical Engineering graduate of San Jose State University, and has an MBA from Santa Clara University. Earlier, Jane was a chemistry graduate of Rice University and worked at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the National Reactor Testing Station.