Introduction

Introduction

This session was intended to provide some advice, anecdotes, perspectives, and information about combining children with an academic engineering career. The first main topic concerns the timing of children- should one have babies during one's graduate student years, during a postdoc, as a faculty member pre-tenure, or should one wait until after tenure? The second main topic concerns strategies for balancing work and family once a baby has arrived. We summarize the presentations and discussions on these two topics.

Introduction