Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

The 50K Coalition is a collaborative of more than 40 organizations focused on a bold national goal: to produce 50,000 diverse engineering graduates annually by 2025. The 50K Coalition is using the Collective Impact framework to develop an evidence-based approach that drives management decision-making, improvements, sharing of information, and collective action to achieve success across five common agenda items: 1) Undergraduate support and retention; 2) Public awareness and marketing; 3) K-12 support; 4) Community College linkages; 5) Culture and climate.

ABET is a non-governmental federation of 34 societies that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. WEPAN works will fellow member societies to set policy, develop strategy, and conduct accreditation activities worldwide on behalf of their professions.

LANDInG comprises a sustainable network of (formal and informal) leaders to champion DEI values and practices, developing cohorts of new leaders to implement DEI efforts that broaden participation across the geosciences.

The ASEE Corporate Member Council served as the incubator for diversity work within ASEE and links WEPAN to corporations that have a commitment to excellence in engineering education. WEPAN is a founding member of the ASEE Diversity Committee, who seeks to advance diversity through the membership of ASEE.

ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods.

Catalyst is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion. They are dedicated to creating workplaces where employees representing every dimension of diversity can thrive. WEPAN is proud to be a member organization of Catalyst.

The Centre for Global Inclusion is a nonprofit charity that serves as a resource for research and education for individuals and organizations in their quest to improve diversity and inclusion practices around the world.

Diversity Council is comprised of non-profits representing talent traditionally underrepresented in engineering and technology including, women, and minorities as well as the LGBT and disability communities. The Council provides the diversity lens through which all DiscoverE programs and resources must pass.

Since 2018, the DIRC team has been putting on a world-class conference bringing together researchers, industry professionals and other community leaders in order to foster increased collaboration to drive progress in workplaces, communities and society at large.

ERVA is an NSF-funded partnership that identifies future engineering research directions by convening, connecting, and catalyzing the engineering community to develop solutions that improve the human condition.

Girl Scouts of the United States of America, commonly referred to as simply Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. Girl Scouts prepares girls to empower themselves and promotes compassion, courage, confidence, character, leadership, entrepreneurship, and active citizenship.

Invent Together is a coalition of organizations, universities, companies, and other stakeholders dedicated to understanding the diversity gaps in invention and patenting and supporting public policy and private initiatives to close them. WEPAN is proud to be a founding member of the Invent Together Coalition.

MWM supports the engagement of one million science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) mentors (male and female) to increase the interest and confidence of girls and women to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers. MWM is a collaboration of more than 58 partners (reaching over 30 million girls and women), 30 sponsors, and 30 state leadership teams.

The National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) is the nation's leading community of change agents, cultivating diversity, access, equity, and inclusion in engineering. We are a network of university administrators, faculty, deans, pre-college educators and industry professionals all committed to implementation of programs, policies, and institutional changes to broaden participation in STEM.

NCWIT works to correct the imbalance of gender diversity in technology and computing because gender diversity positively correlates with a larger workforce, better innovation, and increased business performance. Increasing the number of women in technology and computing also has the potential to improve the design of products and services to better serve a more diverse population, and increase economic and social well-being by providing more women with stable and lucrative careers.

The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) is a trade association focused on strengthening the hydraulics and pneumatics industry. With nearly 300 fluid power manufacturers, distributors and suppliers in its membership, NFPA works to advance fluid power education, technology and the industry as a whole.

The vision of the NGCP is to bring together organizations throughout the United States that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is one of the largest student-governed organizations based in the United States. NSBE, founded in 1975, supports and promotes the aspirations of collegiate and pre-collegiate students and technical professionals in engineering and technology. NSBE's mission is "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community."

The mission of the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM is to support academic and professional disciplinary societies in fulfilling their mission-driven roles as standard bearers and standard setters for excellence in in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical (STEMM) fields, addressing sexual harassment in all its forms and intersectionalities.

HERC is a non-profit consortium of over 700 colleges, universities, hospitals, research labs, government agencies, and related non- and for-profit organizations. Consortium members share a commitment to hiring the most diverse and talented faculty, staff, and executives. HERC provides individuals seeking and in academic careers access to job opportunities and career resources to help advance your higher education career. At any given time there are over 2,000 positions in Engineering on HERC’s job board.

NAPE is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations. Through its four lines of business—professional development, technical assistance, research and evaluation, and advocacy—NAPE strives to achieve its mission of building educators’ capacity to implement effective solutions for increasing student access, educational equity, and workforce diversity.

The Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative is a joint effort of more than twenty leading organizations, working together to provide the resources needed to create a supportive, encouraging, and inclusive environment for women of color in engineering. Its vision of the Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative is for women of color to feel a sense of belonging and to be fully included in engineering; for them to thrive and be valued as their authentic selves, empowering them to fully use their strengths to lead in positions of influence, innovate in their field, mentor and champion others.