See yourself as an engineer!
We know how important it is to have faculty role models to mentor and encourage you, as well as lively peer activities to help you grow professionally and personally.
At Santa Clara we have one of the largest percentage of women engineering faculty in the United States, so you'll find lots of shining examples of success in your professors.
Outside of the classroom, organizations such as Society of Women Engineers, ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery-Women), Women in STEM, and Engineers Without Borders offer inspiring speakers, informative workshops, and lots of opportunities for outreach, travel, networking, and social engagement.
You'll not only see yourself as an engineer, you'll become one!
 | Transforming Power Systems for a Sustainable FutureDr. Maryam Khanbaghi, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Power Systems and Sustainable Energy Program, has been awarded the highly prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for her effort to combat climate challenges by revolutionizing power systems. This accolade underscores her emerging leadership in the power systems field and acknowledges her innovative contributions, marking a vital step toward a greener and more sustainable future. |
 | Alumni Profile: Jocelyn Tan ’15Jocelyn Tan '15 is currently on the board of the Technology Ethics Council at SCU's Markkula Center of Ethics. She is also the founder of Sisu VR, a company focused on workplace misconduct and safety response training using virtual reality. The training is based on real stories and experienced from multiple first-person perspectives. Sisu VR's mission is to empower professionals to work with greater courage, kindness, and empathy. |
 | Building a Better PumpCourtney Rowe ’23 remembers sitting in a Zoom class in March 2020 wondering if she was in the right university. Like students everywhere, she’d gone home that spring to take classes online—joined by hundreds of others enrolled in the same classes with Rowe at the University of California, Irvine. Her older brother had loved his time there. But when the quarter ended, she knew she wasn’t going back. |
 | Faculty Spotlight: Maria KyrariniBefore coming to SCU I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Darlington, and before that, I did my Ph.D. at the University of Bremen in Germany. I chose to come to Santa Clara because everywhere else I interviewed, I saw few females, but there was so much diversity at the School of Engineering and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
