Cecelia Jankowski earned a BS in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an MSEE from Polytechnic University and an MBA from Rutgers University. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. She has three patents for signal processing hardware and has written and presented a number of technical papers at national conferences of the IEEE, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), SPIE, and the Society of Women Engineers.
Ms. Jankowski has held the position of Managing Director, IEEE Regional Activities, at the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, New Jersey since 1995. Her responsibilities include membership, geographic unit support, students and recent graduates. Prior to the IEEE she was employed by Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, New York. Her work there focused on the application and integration of CAE/CAD into aerospace and avionics/systems design and analysis, the development of digital signal processing hardware for future radar and weapons systems applications, and most recently, computer security.

Ms. Jankowski is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. In AIAA, was appointed to the national Computer Systems Technical Committee, and also served as treasurer of the Long Island Section and chair of the Section’s Young Members Committee. Prior to joining the IEEE staff, she was chair of the IEEE-USA Student Professional Awareness Committee and a member of the PACE Council and the Sections Congress '93 Program Committee. She has given more than 35 invited presentations to universities on the expectations and realities of the engineering profession. Her IEEE Long Island Section responsibilities included chapter chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Chair and student activities coordinator. Ms. Jankowski received the Grumman Engineering Award for Technical Excellence in 1985 and was presented with the first AIAA National Computer-Aided Engineering and Manufacturing Award in 1988. In 1990 she was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award from Eta Kappa Nu.

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ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY

What are the challenges faced by new graduates as they enter the engineering profession? What are their expectations with respect to working environment, coworkers and managers, career development, and communication?

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