Martha Mecartney PAESMEM Award Nomination

Martha Mecartney博士是加州大学欧文分校的副教授。Mecartney博士为K-12学生创建了外展计划，并为低收入社区的中学教师开发了暑期课程。她广泛参与了加州大学欧文分校加州少数民族参与联盟，是研究生教育计划联盟（九个校区的联盟）和加州大学欧文分校Fastrack教授的创始人。 这两个项目都是为了促进少数民族和妇女进入研究生水平的工程。Mecartney博士因其努力而受到赞扬，她的努力导致少数民族和妇女进入教授和工程专业，特别是通过她对本科妇女的兴趣和需求的关注。Mecartney领导的项目和服务的绝对数量证明了她的创造性学术领导力和富有洞察力的节目，倾听并由少数民族和妇女的声音指导。

Dr. Martha Mecartney is an Associate Professor at the University of California - Irvine. Dr. Mecartney has created outreach programs for K-12 students and developed summer programs for middle school teachers from low-income communities. She has had extensive involvement in the UC Irvine California Alliance for Minority Participation, and was the founder of the Alliance for Graduate Education Program (a nine-campus consortium) and the UC Irvine Fastrack to the Professoriate. Both of these were designed to advance minorities and women into graduate level engineering. Dr. Mecartney is commended for her effort that has led to the mobility of minorities and women into the professoriate and the engineering profession, especially through her attention to the interests and needs of undergraduate women. The sheer volume of programs and services that Dr. Mecartney has led exemplifies her creative academic leadership and insightful programming that listens to and is instructed by the voices of minorities and women.