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professional grade levels. Efforts to
ensure equal recognition across
diversity identities, including gender,
may help reduce this attrition rate
moving forward. PELS is committed
to diversity and inclusion at multiple
levels of the society. We will continue
to track the resulting progress in the
coming years.
How to Be a Part of the Solution
& Get More Involved
Although, diversity and inclusion are
systemic challenges facing our field,
inclusion is often felt at a personal
level. One individual-of any gender
-can make a positive impact to support
underrepresented groups. Here
are a few suggestions on how to be
part of the solution and get involved.
These points focus on women, but the
same applies to individuals of any
underrepresented group:
■ Learn about the specific challenges
women face in their professional
careers and ways to be an ally by
utilizing the resources available
from past PELS WiE events [5].
■ Volunteer and become involved
with the PELS WiE Committee by
emailing us at pelswie@ieee.org.
■ Invite women colleagues to join
you in a PELS Technical Committee
or other PELS activities.
■ Advocate for recognition of female
colleagues, including nominating
them for awards or Fellow elevation,
by learning of their work and
accomplishments.
About the Authors
Katherine A. Kim (katherine.kim@
ieee.org) received the B.S. from the
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
in 2007. She received the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011
and 2014, respectively. She was an
Assistant Professor at Ulsan National
Institute of Science and Technology,
Ulsan, South Korea, from 2014-2018.
Since 2019, she has been an Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering at
National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan. She received the Richard M.
Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics
Engineer Award from IEEE
PELS in 2019, and recognition as an
Innovator under 35 for the Asia Pacific
Region by the MIT Technology
Review in 2020. For IEEE PELS, she
served as the student membership
chair in 2013-2014, PELS Member-AtLarge
for 2016-2018, and PELS
Women in Engineering chair in 20182020.
Currently, she is the PELS Constitution
and Bylaws chair.
Lauren E. Kegley (lauren.kegley@
wolfspeed.com) is currently a product
commercialization engineer in Wolfspeed's
Power Division in Fayetteville,
AR, USA, working with customers to
support integration of wide bandgap
semiconductors into their applications
and contributing to the evolution of
the silicon carbide supply chain. She
has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering, a Master's degree in
Microelectronic & Photonics, and is
currently pursuing a PhD in the field
of Reliability Modeling. Ms. Kegley is
an ASQ certified quality engineer, an
active IEEE technical reviewer and
conference organizer, the current
chair of the IEEE PELS Women in
Engineering steering committee, and
chair-elect of the University of Arkansas
College of Engineering Dean's
Early Career Advisory Council. Ms.
Kegley is an active ally, advocate, and
volunteer for diversity, equity, and
inclusion in all field.
Stephanie Watts Butler, Ph.D.,
P.E., (s.w.butler@ieee.org) is the president
of WattsButler LLC, an innovation
services company focused on the
power semiconductor industry. As a
Technology Innovation Architect with
over 35 years of experience in silicon
and wide bandgap technology and
product development, Dr. Butler
enables clients to innovate more efficiently,
effectively, and profitably. During
her previous career at Texas
Instruments, she produced innovations
in the areas of power and CMOS
process and package technology, processing
equipment, materials, reliability,
R&D management, manufacturing
science, control, fault detection,
metrology, and new product development
generating 17 U.S. patents. She
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is co-founder and past-chair of
JEDEC's JC-70 wide bandgap standards
committee, co-convenor of
IEC's TC47/WG8, a Fellow of the AVS,
and a senior member of IEEE and
AIChE. Dr. Butler is the Industry Deputy
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Power
Electronics Magazine, a PELS Member-at-Large
(AdCom), chair of PELS
Industry Committee and WiE Committee
member. SWE honored Dr.
Butler with their highest award, the
Achievement Award for Outstanding
Technical Contributions, and Business
Insider named Dr. Butler to their
most powerful female engineers list
of 2017. Dr. Butler also serves as a
Menttium mentor, on the TxGCP Champion
Board and the PSMA Semiconductor
Committee.
Christina DiMarino (dimarino@
vt.edu) is an assistant professor with
the Bradley Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering (ECE) at
Virginia Tech working in the Center
for Power Electronics Systems
(CPES). She received her B.S. degree
in engineering from James Madison
University, and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from
Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Her research interests include power
electronics packaging, high-density
integration, medium-voltage power
modules, and wide-bandgap power
semiconductors. Dr. DiMarino is a
member of the IEEE Power Electronics
Society (PELS), where she currently
serves as a Member-at-Large for the
PELS Administrative Committee, vice
chair for the PELS Technical Committee
on Power Components, Integration,
and Power ICs, and is a member
of the PELS Women in Engineering
committee. She is the advisor of the
PELS Student Branch Chapter at Virginia
Tech, and is a member of the
ECE Diversity and Inclusion committee
at Virginia Tech.
Marium Rasheed (marium.
rasheed@usu.edu) received the B.S.
degree in electrical engineering in
2017 from Lahore University of Management
Sciences (LUMS), Lahore,
Pakistan. She is currently working
toward the Ph.D. degree in power
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