On October 24, the EDGE Consortium — a group of universities dedicated to increasing women and underrepresented in STEM — hosted a Fall Summit which convened a group of educators, university presidents, industry leaders, and lawmakers. Senator Cantwell, a long-time advocate for science education, research, and inclusion gave remarks, introduced by President Cauce, alongside an impressive group of advocates that are working to increase representation in STEM education and workforce. The Summit, titled “Building a More Inclusive and Resilient Semiconductor Workforce”, brought the group together to talk about how to leverage the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act to increase the number of engineers in the growing semiconductor industry.
The EDGE Consortium is made up of women presidents and deans of engineering from the nation’s leading research universities and schools of engineering including: Dartmouth, Indiana University, Brown University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Rochester, the University of Washington, and the Olin College of Engineering.
