Welcome to the WIEA2008 Website

• NEW: Pictures from workshop
• Overview of Workshop
• Final Workshop Program, Biographies and Poster Abstracts Book
• Reports from the Roundtable Discussions and Panels
• Summary of Feedback Forms from Participants
• Text of President Suleyman Demirel's Keynote Address
• Text of Dr Berna Dengiz's Opening Speech
• The Role of Women in Albanian Science by Vilma Proko

The Workshop on Women in Industrial Engineering Academia, Turkey-U.S. and the Middle East is going to be held in Ankara and İstanbul, Turkey during July 2008. The workshop will focus on the current environment for women academics in this field in the regions involved and formulate workable solutions to problems of recruitment, retention and advancement.

This workshop should contribute to a better understanding of the issues affecting the recruitment, retention, and success of women faculty in industrial engineering, and also should directly impact the success of participants and the students and colleagues with whom they interact. It should help stimulate positive interactions between Turkey, the U.S. and the Middle East increase the number of qualified women who choose to pursue advanced industrial engineering degrees and enter academia. A proceedings of the Workshop will be published on CD ROM and also be available from the Workshop website.

Hosted by Başkent University, Ankara TURKEY

With Sponsorship by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Grant OISE 0728947

Organizers: The workshop is organized by Dr. Alice E. Smith, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA and Dr. Berna Dengiz from Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.