Dr. Laura Bottomley, from
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...
in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an
electrical engineer
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
.
In 2016. Bottomley was named a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
for increasing student interest in
STEM education
Stem or STEM may refer to:
Plant structures
* Plant stem, a plant's aboveground axis, made of vascular tissue, off which leaves and flowers hang
* Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure
* Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mush ...
. In 2007, she was awarded the
. Bottomley is also a Fellow of the American Society of
Engineering Education. In 2016, she appeared in a
Super Bowl commercial
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entitled "Doing Good with STEM."
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
North Carolina State University faculty
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
21st-century women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
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