DINNER MEETING AND PRESENTATION:
“Diversity in The Engineering Profession”
with
Deborah L. Grubbe, P.E., of Dupont Company,
2002 Engineer of the Year, Delaware
Speaker
Our Speaker - Deborah Grubbe, PE
Deborah Grubbe, P.E., is a leader in the engineering profession. She brings special background and perspective to issues with diversity, ethics, and opportunity within the engineering profession. NHSPE and the NH Board of Licensure of Professional Engineers are pleased and appreciative to have Ms. Grubbe join us for our jointly sponsored “New PE Dinner,” which welcomes newly licensed New Hampshire engineers to the profession, and which traditionally has focused on engineering ethics and other professional issues.
Deborah Grubbe is corporate Director – Safety and Health for DuPont. She is accountable for leading new initiatives in global safety and occupational health for the $27 billion Corporation. Deborah is also a past director of DuPont Engineering’s 700-person engineering technology organization. Her 15 different assignments in 25 years range from capital project implementation through manufacturing management and human resources.
Deborah currently serves on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology. She also serves the National Academy of Sciences as a member of the oversight committee for the Demilitarization of US Chemical Weapons Stockpile. Deborah sits on the Board of Directors of the Engineering and Construction Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Deborah was the first woman and youngest elected member on the State of Delaware Registration Board for Professional Engineers (1985-1989). During her tenure on the State Board, she was the Chair of the Law Enforcement and Ethics Committee. She is active with the Society of Women Engineers, and if a former board member of the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN). Deborah has been features in the books “Engineering Your Way to Success” and “Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering – No Universal Constants.”
In 1994, Deborah was named an outstanding Chemical Engineering Alumna by the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering, and is a recipient of the 1986 Trailblazer Award from the Delaware Alliance of Professional Women. In 2002, she received the Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, and was named Engineer of the Year in Delaware.