Biography

Sheila Humphreys

Dr. Sheila Humphreys, Director of Diversity in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, has been actively engaged in science intervention programs to promote diversity at the pre-college, undergraduate and graduate levels for thirty years. Humphreys received the A. Nico Habermann Award, (http://www.cra.org/Activities/awards/habermann/winner.99.html) from the Computer Research Association in 1999, for her contributions on behalf of minority groups in computer science. Under her leadership, the EECS women’s program was awarded the 2002 Women in Engineering Program Award by WEPAN, (Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network). She is on the leadership team for the NSF Empowering Leadership Alliance, (http://www.empoweringleadership.org/About_Us/leadership.html) and the NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate at Berkeley, (http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/agep/overview/outreachrecruit.html). Humphreys has made numerous presentations and has authored articles about issues of access to science and engineering. She was an invited member of the CRA, (http://www.cra.org) working group which produced the report "Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students in Computer Science." (August 2000). She is a Berkeley member on the (NCWIT), National Coalition for Women in Computing (http://www.ncwit.org) and of the Berkeley Coalition for Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. She has initiated many intervention programs at Berkeley to increase the participation of underrepresented students in engineering and computer science, including the minority research program SUPERB - Computer Science in the Interest of Society , (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superb.html), and the Computer Science Reentry Program. As Director of Diversity for the EECS Department, she oversees academic and preprofessional support for women and underrepresented students, including the Intel Undergraduate Research Program, (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~humphrys/intel.html). Nationally, Dr. Humphreys has been active in equity issues and participates regularly in the Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. She maintains strong ties to external organizations, strong ties to the computer Anita Borg Institute, (CRA), Computer Research and WEPAN, (Women in Engineering Programs & Advocate Network).

Some relevant publications include:

• S.M. Humphreys. "Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley," Conference Proceedings, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1998.
• S.M. Humphreys. "The Role of Women Graduate Students" Proceedings Bridging the Gender Gap conference, Carnegie Mellon University, March 1996.
• S.M. Humphreys. "Men and Women and Engineering" Prism Magazine, American Society of Engineering Education, January 1994.
• S.M. Humphreys and B.G. Davis. "Evaluation Counts: A Guide to Evaluating Math and Science Programs for Women" New York: Teachers College Press, 1985.
• S.M. Humphreys. "Women and Minorities in the Graduate Pipeline: One Department's Response." Engineering Education 78:9 May 1988.

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