Pamela McCauley-Bush

Pamela McCauley-Bush (1963-) was the first African-American woman granted an engineering Ph.D. in the state of Oklahoma[1].

Background

McCauley-Bush became a Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. McCauley-Bush is professor and director of the Ergonomics Laboratory in the University of Central Florida Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems since 1993.[2] Bush is the program director for the National Science Foundation's I-Core program[3].

McCauley-Bush became a mother at the age of 15. In 2013, McCauley-Bush was invited to the Orlando BETA Center to speak to the teenage mothers to share her story and encourage them to pursue technical career.[4]

McCauley-Bush founded T-STEM, which advocates for national STEM education, leadership, diversity and innovation initiatives in coordination with universities, colleagues and schools[5].

McCauley-Bush worked as chief technology officer of Bush Enterprises between 1999 and 2012, where is provided technical and analytic support, software development, and industrial engineering[6].

Books

Bush has authored several books, including "Winners Don't Quit: Today They Call Me Doctor" published in 2010[7], "Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation: Inspiration and Strategies for Women" published in 2012[8], and "Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications and Technologies (Ergonomics Design Mgmt Theory) (Ergonomics Design & Mgmt. Theory & Applications)" published in 2011[9].

Awards

In 2012 McCauley-Bush was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholar for mathematically modeling human factors and related risks in disaster management[10].

References
  1. Anderson, Jasmine (7 March 2019). "Community Focus: First African American woman to earn an Engineering Ph.D in Oklahoma". KOKH.
  2. "UCF Engineering Professor Pamela McCauley Bush Among Top Women in Technology Recognized by Connected World Magazine". PRWeb.
  3. "NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov.
  4. "50/50 Campaign".
  5. "T-STEM, Inc. - Orlando, FL". Alignable.
  6. "Pamela Mc Cauley Bush | Hilaris SRL". www.hilarispublisher.com.
  7. McCauley Bush, Pamela (2010). Winners don't quit : today they call me doctor. IP Books. p. 256. ISBN 978-0972991261.
  8. McCauley Bush, Pamela (2012). Transforming your STEM career through leadership and innovation : inspiration and strategies for women. Academic Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0123969934.
  9. McCauley-Bush, Pamela (2011). Ergonomics : foundational principles, applications, and technologies. CRC Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-1439804452.
  10. "College of Graduate Studies".


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