Position: Treasurer
Dr. Lily Wang is the Durham Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Technology, and Director of
the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction in the College of Engineering at the
University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL). She earned her PhD in Acoustics at Pennsylvania State
University and her BS in Civil Engineering at Princeton University. Her research focuses on room
acoustics and noise control topics. She is active in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and has
served on the ASA Women in Acoustics committee since 2002. Between 2018 to 2021, she led diversity,
equity and inclusion efforts in the UNL College of Engineering as Associate Dean of Faculty and
Inclusion. In that position and as a member of the UNL Association of Women in Science Steering
Committee, she has guided initiatives and programs aimed at supporting and celebrating women in
engineering. (lilywang@unl.edu)
Position: Director Awards
Dr. Jessica Perez – Two years ago, I decided that it was time for me to get more involved in WIED. I did
and I have loved being a part of the board this past year. The intersection of gender and engineering is
truly my passion. I am currently an assistant professor at Cal Poly Pomona with a cluster posting in
STEM pedagogy. It has made me very flexible and able to work on a team. I am also the director of
faculty awards for the Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE. I feel that this position and my experience on
the board will allow me to grow in my role and serve as the director of awards for WIED. As a past
recipient of an award from WIED, I understand the impact it can have on a career and I am eager to help
others in the same fashion. I am looking forward to serving the division and being able to grow in my
field. (joperez@cpp.edu)
Position: Director Positions
Yuchen Huang is Senior Instructor and the Director of the MS Graduate Program in Digital Integrated
Circuit Design in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Portland State University (PSU).
Prior to joining PSU, she worked at Intel Corporation for 21 years as a senior staff engineer, involved in
key product development and industry adoption of technologies and standards. Yuchen is PSU’s Society
for Women (SWE) Faculty Co-Advisor. She serves as the ASEE MULTI Division Executive Committee
Director At-Large. She was the board member of Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation, involved in
organizing state wide chess tournament. She was a member of the fundraising committee on the Chess for
Success Organization. She served as the Intel ISEF Grand Award judge and the head judge of Oregon
state science fair. Yuchen is interested in the ASEE WIED Division Executive Board Director of
Positions because she wants to promote women in engineering. (yuchen@pdx.edu)
Position: Director At Large
Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer has spent her career diligently working towards broadening participation
of women and underrepresented groups in STEM fields. She is the Associate Director of the Purdue
University Women in Engineering (WiE) Program where she leads retention efforts and conducts
research around women student success. She manages the undergraduate and graduate mentoring
programs that reach over 1,000 students annually and teaches two seminar courses offered by WiE. She
also holds a courtesy Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and
Planetary Sciences. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer’s research focuses around understanding the barriers and
pathways to success for typically marginalized groups in STEM. She is developing an online training
program for engineering students with under-developed spatial skills. She is also working to understand
the intricacies of undergraduate women engineering students’ successful navigation to their degrees.
Finally, Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer studies the career pathways of indigenous women to better inform practices
and policies in the work force. She is a founding Advisory Board member of the Geoscience Alliance, a
national alliance committed to broadening participation of Native Americans in the geosciences. In 2019,
she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the international organization Diversity in Organizations,
Communities, and Nations Research Network. (zurnbirk@purdue.edu)