Women in Engineering

Talks at L.A. Girl Geek Dinner #1 – Google Venice

• URL: http://ggdla.com/l-a-girl-geek-dinner-1-google-venice
• Date: September 20, 2012

• Socially Assistive Robotics and Discoveries on the Research Path
  • Full bio of speaker
  • Roboticist
  • Bridging the Care Gap
  • A new frontier of Sicence and Engineering
  • Socially assistive robotics
  • Research questions
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Eldercare, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia
  • Role modeling: How to be a mentor
  • Mentoring advice
• Hitting the Road to Mars
  • Full bio of speaker
  • Many NASA centers
  • About JPL
  • Four stages of planetary exploration
  • About Mars exploration
  • Spirit & Opportunity: Same mission in 1997 applied in 2003
  • Curiosity