LATTICE connects women engineers in early academic careers with peers, support

A new national program - LATTICE - sponsored by the University of Washington, North Carolina State University and California Polytechnic State University aims to diversify the national engineering faculty population by building supportive communities during the critical transition from graduate studies to permanent tenure-track positions. LATTICE stands for Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: An Intentional Community in Engineering. True to its name, the program focuses on forging connections and offering support to early-career women and underrepresented minority women in engineering who are interested in faculty careers. LATTICE participants will gain a stronger sense of career self-efficacy and sense of belonging through a combination of symposia, networks and other support structures over a two-year-period. The first symposium - to be held in Bainbridge Island, Washington, on May 18-21 - will focus on post-Ph.D., early-career women in electrical engineering and computer science, including postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, assistant research professors and other pre-tenure level science positions. The deadline to apply for the first cohort is Jan. A second symposium to be held in 2019 will target women in all fields of engineering who are also members of racial or ethnic minorities or persons with disabilities.