Along the way, Amy Freeman has served as an engineering professional in many capacities. She was a business owner for four years providing subcontracting and project management services for various clients in the Northeast. On a larger scale, she was employed by Rockwell International where she operated as an Industrial Engineer and, later, as a Construction Engineer at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

 

She has spoken at schools, churches and correctional institutions, and received a commendation from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for her contribution to African Americans in North Central Pennsylvania. Her poetry was twice featured in ESSENCE Magazine. She has written and presented several papers on the importance of math education and diversity in technical fields.

 

As an educator, Ms. Freeman served in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education for 10 years directing student programs. During that time, she developed a wide range of retention programming for students who identified as underrepresented, international, women, or transgendered. At Penn State, she continues to provide recruitment and retention enhancement through the long standing Multicultural Engineering Program, the Women in Engineering Program and through cultivation of partnerships with corporations, alumni, university constituents and organizational alliances.

 

She has written, published and presented research findings at national conferences and is a member of several organizations including the American Society for Engineering Education, the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network, Society of Women Engineering, The National Society of Black Engineers, The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the American Indian Society of Engineering and Science. She is currently serving as the President of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates for the 2008-2010 term. She has traveled and studied internationally in Germany, Spain, Morocco, The People’s Republic of China, The Republic of Korea, and across the U.S. As an advocate of engineering education, she emphasizes the need to share ideas, collaborate and learn as much as possible about others and the world around us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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