Black Scholar to Lead the Women in Engineering ProActive Network
Filed in Appointments, STEM Fields on July 3, 2017
Amy Freeman, assistant dean of engineering outreach and inclusion at Pennsylvania State University was elected president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. She will serve one year as president.
Before joining the staff at Penn State in 2000 as director of the multicultural engineering program, Dr. Freeman was director of human and cultural diversity at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Freeman is a graduate of Washington State University, where she majored in construction management. She holds a master’s degree in architectural engineering and a doctorate in workforce education and development from Pennsylvania State University.
