Tricia Berry, director of the Women in Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected national president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network. At the university Berry, chemical engineering alumni, leads the efforts to recruit and retain women in the Cockrell School of Engineering. She concurrently serves as director of the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, an initiative aimed at connecting Texas organizations, companies and individuals working to increase gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Berry is also executive vice president of 825 Basics, LLC, a professional training company with the mission to help develop healthy, fit and full of energy careers.
WEPAN seeks to transform engineering higher education culture to open the field to women in support of America’s demand for innovation in engineering.
