Engineer Madhuparna Roy is a winner of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at FSU and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She was a speaker at the latest installment of TEDxFSU on Friday, March 23, 2018.
In her speech, she talked about her research, which focuses on how 3D printing, and how it can be used to make lightweight plane materials that protect it from lightning. She also highlighted the disparity of women in STEM due to toys given as children that discourage the growth of spatial planning skills in young girls.
“Women are 47 percent more likely to have a serious injury in the case of a car crash because they used male dummy drivers for all of their crash tests and came up with a seatbelt design that works best with those dimensions,” Roy said, discussing the need for diversity in engineering. “Only in the year 2011 did they introduce female dummies.”
She shared how the dominance of men in engineering can lead to similar outcomes because there are no diverse voices to raise awareness to other viewpoints.
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