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Dr. Kimberly Douglas is director of the Women in Engineering and Science Program (WESP) at Kansas State University. Douglas is a member of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and the College of Engineering's Diversity Committee. Since her arrival in 2004, Douglas has secured more than $2.5 million in grants and extramural funding to build programs to recruit and retain students in engineering and science, particularly those who are female and of color.
Douglas, originally from Oklahoma,came to K-State from Oregon State University, Corvallis, where she had been a faculty member in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering for ten years. Douglas completed her PhD in Industrial and Management
Systems Engineering from Arizona State University in 1993 and received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Oklahoma State
University in Industrial Engineering and Management. She is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Oregon, is the president of the Women in Engineering Program and Advocates Network (WEPAN), and serves as an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for the institute of Industrial Engineers. |
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