Professionally Prepared but Not Pioneer Prepared
summary
Shows that a tenured Black woman engineering professor is the sole representative at her institution and one of ~150 nationwide, won a presidential early career award, graduated 7 PhDs (two now at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong), raised >$10M, and built a company and products: STEMinent LLC, Prepared to Be a Pioneer™ and a mobile app. Presents concrete tools—a psychometrics-based professional compatibility algorithm, GoAnimate-based quirky time game videos—and reports rebranding, publications, grant wins, and working prototypes from a sabbatical collaboration.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:29Monicas Background
- 1:04NASA Scholarship
- 1:48Masters Degree
- 2:03Purdue University
- 2:26University of Colorado
- 2:59President Obama
- 4:00Diversity in Engineering
- 5:00Being Mispronounced
- 7:58Who is a Pioneer
- 8:37Pioneer Definition
- 9:27Mentoring
- 12:15Professional Compatibility
- 14:08Entrepreneurship
- 16:59Summary
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