Invited Talks

 

Empowering your potential

Advisory Council for Women (ACW) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA, Keynote Speaker
Pasadena, CA, March 25, 2016

 

de la femme's "breaking the glass ceiling in stem disciplines"

The Broad Institute, Keynote Speaker
Cambridge, MA, November 9, 2015

 

Empowering your potential

IEEE Women in Engineering Summit, Keynote Speaker
Philadelphia, PA, November 7, 2015

 

Inspiring innovation

Intel Corporation, Keynote Speaker
Hudson, MA, October 20, 2015

 

Nerd Girls, Math Moves You

Middlesex Community College, Keynote Speaker
November 2, 2014

 

“Real World Engineering Using MATLAB”

Mathworks
October 7, 2014

 

“Change the World: Inspiring Future Engineers”

Dana Hall
Wellesley, MA, September 9, 2014

 

“Beyond the Pink Aisle- Cool, Creative Ways, Inspiring Girls in STEM”

USA Science and Engineering Festival, Speaker
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2014

 

“Inspiring Innovation”

IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC 2014), Keynote
March 8, 2014

 

Empowering Nerd Girls

Brearley School
New York City, NY, February 21, 2014

 

USA Science Festival 

St. Gertrude High School, Nifty Fifty Speaker
Virginia, December 10, 2013

 

Nerd Girls, Math Moves You

Middlesex Community College, Invited Speaker
November 17, 2013

 

IEEE Women in Engineering Annual Meeting

Panelist
Portland, OR, August 2013

 

Order of the Sons of Italy 58th Annual Scholarship Awards

Invited Speaker
May 19, 2013

 

IEEE WIE/Google, Enhancing the Sustainability of Women in Technology

Speaker
January 23, 2013

 

Math Moves You

Middlesex Community College, Keynote Speaker
October 21, 2012

 

USA Science Festival

Madeira School, Nifty Fifty Speaker
Virginia, April 12, 2012

 

Microsoft Digigirlz Camp

Keynote Speaker
Cambridge, MA, March 30, 2012

 

Tri-Cities Engineers Week Banquet

Engineer of the Year Award Presentation, Keynote Speaker
Pasco, WA, February 24, 2012

 

IEEE Milestone Presentation to MIT Lincoln Labs

Opening Speaker
December 8, 2011

 

Society of Women Engineers

Tufts University, Keynote Speaker
October 18, 2011

 

Boston University Career Night

Speaker
November 10, 2010

 

IEEE Women in Engineering Phased Array Conference Reception

October 12, 2010

 

IEEE Region 1 Industry Day

Evening Keynote Speaker
Portsmouth, NH, September 25, 2010

 

IEEE Region 1 Northeast Industry Day

Speaker
September 24, 2010

 

National Science Foundation Center For Energy-Efficient Ultra-Dense Computing

University of Michigan, Speaker
Ann Arbor, MI, September 14, 2010

 

“Fostering Better Use of the Talent Pool of Women in Engineering and Science”

IEEE 2009 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
Orlando, FL, October 28, 2009

 

IEEE Women in Engineering Professional Development Seminar

Keynote Speaker
White Plains, NY, September 25, 2009

 

Microsoft Digigirlz Camp

Keynote Workshop Speaker
North Carolina, June 2009

 

“Kids to College”

Rockport Middle School
April 15, 2009

 

Engineering with a Global Perspective

Society of Women Engineers
April 4, 2009

 

Fourth Annual Women’s Leadership Conference

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Keynote Speaker
March 21, 2009

 

Society of Women Engineers

Professional Night
Boston, MA, February 19, 2009

 

Society of Women Engineers Region F Conference

Speaker
2009

 

“Engineering and the Community”

Boston University 2008 Engineering Distinguished Alumni Awards
Boston, MA, November 2008

 

Women in EECS Luncheon

University of Central Florida, Keynote Speaker
October 30, 2008

 

Minority Women Engineering Day

Delta Academy
April 10, 2008

 

IEEE RFID Conference

Las Vegas, NV, April 2008

 

Envision 2020 Exhibit

Women at Work Museum, Keynote Speaker
March 19, 2008

 

Envision - Women Engineers

Women at Work Museum, Keynote Speaker
March 19, 2008

 

Envision - Women Engineers

Attleboro High School, Keynote Speaker
March 19, 2008

 

IEEE Sections Congress 2008

Women in Engineering
Quebec City, Canada, 2008

 

Order of the Engineer, Ring Ceremony

Boston University, Keynote Speaker
February 22, 2008

 

National Academy of Engineering Diversity Forum

Boston, MA, February 14, 2008

 

IEEE Congress

Chennai, India, January 2008

 

Government of Dubai

Silicon Oasis Authority
January 2008

 

FIRST Robotics

Keynote Speaker
Nashua, NH, December 4, 2007

 

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Women in Computational Intelligence Keynote Speaker
Orlando, FL, August 17, 2007

 

IEEE Power Engineering Conference

Orlando, FL, 2007

 

IEEE Radar Conference

Boston, MA, April 17 2007

 

IEEE Women in Engineering Conference

University of New Hampshire, Keynote Speaker
April 10, 2007

 

IEEE Women in Engineering Forum

Melbourne, Australia, March 2007

 

“Renewable Energy Systems on Thacher Island”

Clean Cities of Massachusetts
Boston, MA, January 30, 2007

 

The Massachusetts Conference for Women

Session: The Next Generation of Global Architects
Boston, MA, December 14, 2006

 

“Walks of Life Career Panel”

Society of Women Engineers
Medford, MA, December 12, 2006

 

“Connecting Ideas with Actions and Inspiring Change”

Build Boston Conference, Women in Design, Session: Degrees of Connections, World Trade Center
Boston, MA, November 14, 2006

 

“Running Through the Finish Line: Experiences from the Nerd Girl Engineering Project”

MACOM/ Tyco Electronics Professional Women’s Network Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Lowell, MA, November 10, 2006

 

“Women in Transport: Visualizing Complex Data Sets from NASA Shuttle Missions”

Defining the Decade Exhibit, Women at Work Museum
Attleboro, MA, November 4, 2006

 

“Art, Engineering and Alternative Energy”

Dream it! Design it! Exhibit, Women at Work Museum
Attleboro, MA, August 2, 2006

 

“Solar Energy Engineering”

SolarNow Inc., Greenergy Park Renewable Energy Fair
Beverly, MA, July 2006

 

“The Nerd Girls: Breaking the Stigmas and Stereotypes of Women in Engineering and Science”

Women at Work Museum
June 13, 2006

 

“Everyday Engineering”

Girls and Technology, Rockport Public School
Medford, MA, April 12, 2006

 

Welch Elementary School

Peabody, MA, February, 2006

 

“Engineering for Everyone”

Peabody Public Schools, Welch Middle School
January 2006

 

“Visualization versus Animation”

Peabody Public Schools, West Middle School
January 2006

 

Burke School

Peabody, MA, December 21, 2005

 

West Memorial School

Peabody, MA, December 2005

 

“Renewable Energy Engineering Solutions for Remote Environments”

Thacher Island Association
Rockport, MA, April 2005

 

“Renewable Energy Designs for Thacher Island”

Clean Cities of Massachusetts, Department of Energy Resources
Boston, MA, February 2005

 

“Renewable Energy and Engineering”

Sandwich Public Schools
Sandwich, MA, February 2005.

 

“Girls in Engineering”

Woodward School for Girls
Quincy, MA, January 2005

 

Clean Cities: Department of Energy Resources

Keynote Speaker
2005

 

Massachusetts Guidance Symposium for Engineering and Engineering Technology Conference

Boston Museum of Science
Cambridge, MA, November 10, 2005

 

“Visualization of NASA Data”

Rockport Educational Foundation, Keynote Speaker
April 24, 2004

 

Tufts University First Year Scholars Program

2004 

 

“What Engineers Do”

Malden Middle School Outreach Program
April 2, 2004

 

“What Engineers Do”

Malden Middle School Outreach Program 
April 16, 2004

 

“Inventing the Binary Box for teaching Digital Communications”

NSF PSET Project
March 2004

 

Larz Anderson Auto Museum: The Museum of Transportation

Brookline, MA, September 2003

 

Society of Women Engineers, Sports Engineering Workshop for Girls

May 2003

 

“Engineers, Ready to Take on any Feat!” 

Girls Inc., Smart Conference, Keynote Speaker
April 2003

 

“NASA Joint Ventures for Engineering Education”

American Society of Engineering Education and NASA
Virginia, April 2003

 

“Engineers Changing the World!”

“Girls Get Set!” Program, Discovery Museum
July 26, 2002

 

Educator’s Open House

Discovery Museum
Acton, MA, July 26, 2002

 

“Animation for Engineering and Science”

Somerville Middle School Outreach Program
July 19, 2002

 

“Multimedia and Engineering”

Tufts University First Year Scholars Program
July 17, 2002

 

“Animation for Technical Communications”

Association for Women in Computing
April 25, 2002

 

“The Real World: Industry Perspectives on Engineering Careers”

Society of Women Engineers
April 5, 2002

 

Runkle School

Brookline, MA, November 1, 2002

 

“CAREER Awardees Workshop”

National Science Foundation, Invited Presenter
1999

 

“Multilevel Concurrent Simulation”

Boston University, College of Engineering
1998

 

“Adding Multimedia to the Curriculum: Issues and Approaches”

Syllabus Conference
July 1998

 

NASA JOVE Conference

Guest Speaker
Cocoa Beach, FL, 1998

 

Eta Kappa Nu Induction Ceremony

Keynote Speaker
1998

 

Society of Women Engineers

Keynote Speaker
1997

 

“Stimulating Simulating”

University of Lowell, Electrical Engineering Department
1997

 

Girls in Engineering NSF Summer Program

Keynote Speaker
1997

 

Tufts University Sixth Annual Teaching Conference

Speaker and Organizer, Multimedia Workshop
1997

 

Tau Beta Pi Induction Ceremony

Keynote Speaker
1995