Society of Women Engineers
Diversity Fueling Innovation
Henry C. Turner Prize
February 5, 2013
Technological innovations from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals are the single greatest driver of U.S. economic competitiveness and growth. But in many STEM disciplines, we do not leverage this key competitive advantage—our diversity. Recipient of the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology, Society of Women Engineers executive director and CEO Betty Shanahan discussed strategies to recruit, retain and advance women and other under-represented populations in STEM professions.
The Turner Construction Company established the prize and an endowment to support it in order to honor Henry C. Turner who founded the Turner Construction Company in 1902. The prize recognizes advances or high achievement in the process of construction—an invention, an innovative methodology, and/or exemplary leadership. For more than six decades, the Society of Women Engineers has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry and currently serves over 22,000 members.
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