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Fundedby the National Science Foundation, the Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Engineering PLUS Alliance is recruiting partners to join networked communities that will build an inclusive infrastructure to drive the transformative, systemic and sustainable change needed to achieve 100K undergraduate and 30K graduate engineering degrees awarded annually to BIPOC and women students by 2026.

The Engineering PLUS Alliance, funded at $10 million over 5 years, is one of 17 National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Alliances of higher education institutions and the only Alliance focused on engineering. NSF INCLUDES is a nationwide initiative designed to build U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by increasing the participation of individuals from groups that have been historically underrepresented in STEM.

Engineering PLUS is designed to build an infrastructure to support sustainability and scale-up of successful interventions through collaboration and partnerships. Each of the Key Performance Strategy (KPS) groups work closely with its collaborators to achieve the overall project goals. Below is a current list of the collaborating organizations that work with each KPS group. This list will evolve over the course of the grant as new collaborators, members and partners become part of the Alliance.

NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Alliance Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students). This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under award HRD-2119930. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Do you want to put your engineering degree to work increasing health, happiness, and safety for others? Engineers contribute to the world by creatively solving problems and innovating products and approaches enriching the lives of people and the world around us.

Graduates earn an Engineering, B.S. and are prepared for a wide variety of high demand careers in as few as 8 semesters. Alumni from this program are employed as engineers in a wide variety of companies including Micron Technology, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, ESI, Keller and Associates, Cascade Energy, GE, and Power Engineers. Student are also pursuing a variety of advanced degrees including graduate degrees in Architecture, Biomedical Engineering, Computing, and Sports Equipment Design.

At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level, in five to eight years. At that point your path branches, and you have the opportunity to pursue engineering management or continue down the path of technical excellence to become a Staff Engineer.

Over the past few years we've seen a flurry of books unlocking the engineering manager career path, like Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager and my own An Elegant Puzzle. The management career isn't an easy one, but increasingly there is a map available.

The transition into Staff Engineer, and its further evolutions like Principal Engineer, remains particularly challenging and undocumented. What are the skills you need to develop to reach Staff Engineer? What skills do you need to succeed after you've reached it? How do most folks reach this role? What can companies do to streamline the path to Staff Engineer? Will you enjoy being a Staff Engineer or toil for years for a role that doesn't suit you?

The StaffEng project aims to collect the stories of folks who are operating in Staff, Principal or Distinguished Engineer roles. How did you get there? What were your lucky breaks? How did you learn to be effective? As more of these stories are collected, I hope to build a dataset that helps folks draw their own map to Staff Engineer.

None of the Staff Engineer I spoke with got there alone. Most got there either through voracious readingor building a powerful network of colleagues. This section is a collection of recommended resources.

Almost unanimously, Staff-plus engineers' most valuable learning resources wasn't a book, blog, talk, or paper, but instead their network of peers and mentors. If you only have one hour to develop yourself as an engineer, your best bet would be building a network of people in similar roles.

Although I've found that many folks don't read too many books, when I asked Staff engineers for their most valuable resources, they inevitably mentioned a personal mentor or a book. They had blog posts and tech talks they might mention related to a more specific problem, but they were most changed by this larger, more papery format.

The Staff-plus engineers I've chatted with have generally mentioned giving talks as more valuable to them than listening to talks, but there certainly are some excellent talks out there. Cindy Sridharan (Twitter) is the best source of amazing talks, in particular, her write-ups of Best of 2019 in Tech Talks, Best of 2018 in Tech Talks, and Best of 2017 in Tech Talks.

Relatively few Staff-plus Engineers are avid readers of Computer Science papers. However, most are familiar with a handful of foundational papers, and the small subset who do spend time reading papers tend to get quite a bit out of it.

If you aspire to join the category of frequent paper readers, there's no better place than Adrian Colyer's the morning paper, which will send you a summary of a computer science paper every weekday. If you're more interested in getting some foundational exposure to some well-known papers, first read one of How to Read an Academic Article by Peter Klein or How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav, and then jump into this list of recommended papers:

Probably the best place to find high-quality papers to read is Papers We Love, which also run meetups to discuss papers. A few other resources are the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award list and Irrational Exuberance's paper collection.

At K-Plus, we specialize in delivering comprehensive environmental consulting and engineering services. Our team of experienced professionals is dedicated to providing innovative solutions that ensure compliance with environmental regulations while promoting sustainable practices. From site assessments to remediation projects, we have the expertise to address all your environmental needs.

These roles vary enough across companies that some aspects of managing your Staff-plus engineers will depend on the Staff archetypes your company emphasizes and where your Staff-plus engineers should fit into the engineering organization, but there are some approaches that will be helpful for you across most configurations.

Engineers Plus, P.C. was founded in Richmond, VA in 1998 as a high performance consulting engineering firm, providing mechanical, electrical and plumbing design services to the commercial, institutional, and industrial markets. We are women-owned, and a Virginia DSBSD Certified Small and Micro Business.

Our staff has extensive experience providing design services for building renovations and new construction with requirements for careful coordination of phased project execution. Projects include both design/build and design/bid for general office buildings, historic building renovations, healthcare, manufacturing and warehouses, teaching and research laboratories, and critical environments. Our design process considers details that affect installation phasing and quality, long-term cost of ownership, and system operation and maintenance. Our experience working closely with contractors to provide construction management and commissioning services, ensure that systems perform according to client requirements.

Hands-on project courses are required each year of the program. These not only equip students with skills to lead team-based initiatives, but is also an opportunity for them to put theory into practice

IDE students can pursue their other passions without the additional cost and time of a second major or minor. Students often find it easier to pursue a minor in the IDE program, when compared to traditional engineering degree programs, especially if the minor is located in a different academic college (Business, Arts and Sciences, etc.)

Our concentration system sets pre-professional-track students up for success. For example, in the Pre-Medical Concentration, students can take courses like molecular biology and organic chemistry, which can be challenging to merge with traditional engineering programs.

Quality Plus Engineering LLC is a contracting firm providing mechanical and industrial engineering, project management and manufacturing support with complete design cycle capabilities.

Offering 30 years of experience with industry background, we provide quality services, and reliability to our clients.

Engineering+ propels you into a dynamic learning environment where you'll collaborate with peers, tackle real-world challenges, and explore various engineering disciplines through engaging projects. Our faculty mentors will guide you on your journey, fostering an inclusive mindset and preparing you for success in your chosen field.

Explore the economic engine of transportation from a sustainability lens. Learn how to plan, design, and operate robust surface transportation systems while reducing or eliminating the negative impacts. Have fun in a team of students pushing the boundaries of what is possible for future transportation systems.

Learn how to solve real-world problems by designing sensors that enable signal processing devices to interact with the world autonomously. Students of engineering will create most future innovations; you will start on this early by exploring how to solve real-world problems by thinking critically, creatively, collaborating with others, and using methods that apply to nearly all disciplines of engineering.

Learn how computer chips are made and fabricate your very own OLED display. The US Government is investing $50 billion to revitalize the domestic semiconductor industry. Find out what it takes to be part of this high-tech industry.

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