How does the field of chemical engineering look these days, especially in terms of women joining the discipline?
Unfortunately the engineering discipline as a whole is not attracting people at this time, whether its male, female or minorities. I see more people from outside USA coming in to study engineering than within the country itself. We have to work with kids from the junior high school level onwards and especially encourage girls and minorities to enter this discipline. This month we have a take your son to work day and along with some of my colleagues, I will be going to speak at schools about the global opportunities in the field of energy that will be available to engineers. Chevron is very committed to encourage and mentor women and minorities within the company and Im very involved in working in and sponsoring networks that focus on this goal. Still we need to do much more all across the board. In spite of being a Sikh and therefore a minority within the minority community of Indian Americans, you have climbed up the corporate ladder. What message do you have for other ethnic minoriti
