Engineers Week: Who's an Engineer? What's Engineering Culture?

Happy Engineers Week All!
Join us for a panel discussion about Engineering Culture and how Engineers think about themselves. We will start with a brief presentation and discussion to set the scene. Then we will invite you to break out into smaller discussion groups to address specific questions. The breakout groups will join together again to present their findings. That will be followed by a summary discussion and an open question and answer session. This session is the first of a series of discussions that we plan to hold on this topic.
The panelists for this session are:
– Rob Sleezer
– Kendal Diveley
– Jahnavi Dirisina
– Ahmed Naumaan
Attached you will find a document with a set of links to articles about Engineering culture. You may find it interesting to scan a few.
If you have questions that you would like to have addressed at the discussion, please email them to (mailto:ahmed.naumaan@ieee.org)
Thanks.
Ahmed Naumaan
TC Section, Chair
I asked a couple of AI engines to create representations of engineers and engineering culture. They came up with the images below.
Do you think these representations are credible? What do you think engineers and engineering culture look like. Generate some images yourself and bring them to the panel discussion to share or email me a copy and I can show them for you when we meet.
Left image from Microsoft Copilot Right image from Google Gemini 2.0
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Agenda:
Agenda:
– Introductory presentation and discussion by panel
– Breakout sessions for attendees
– Presentation of findings from breakout groups
– Summary discussion by panel
– Open discussion and Q/A with attendees
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/468566