Carol Muller, Stanford
Mechanical Engineering
As Executive Director of WISE Ventures, Carol Muller partners with individuals and organizations at Stanford to amplify the impact of programs, research, and other projects to advance equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and works collaboratively to enhance existing and establish new initiatives to meet needs aligned with this mission for Stanford University. She also provides executive support for Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum and serves as a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Coupling leadership experience across a wide range of responsibilities in higher education with entrepreneurial skills honed through her work in engineering education, she founded MentorNet in 1997, a nonprofit online global mentoring network supporting diversity in science and engineering, serving as its chief executive through 2008. Her prior work includes service as consulting professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, as associate dean for administration at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College (where she co-founded the Dartmouth Women in Science Project and the Dartmouth Project for Teaching Engineering Problem-Solving), and as department manager for Stanford’s Electrical Engineering department of nearly 70 faculty members and more than 1,000 students. She has published more than 60 research and conference papers, provided more than 150 invited talks and workshops, and raised more than $13 million in funds to support educational projects and programs, fellowships, and professorships.
A Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, her work has been recognized with national awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and the Anita Borg Social Impact Award. She has authored and presented numerous papers, presentations, and workshops, and has created projects, programs, and fellowships developed with funding from private foundations, corporations, and the federal government, contracts, and individual giving. She earned a bachelors degree from Dartmouth College (1977) and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in education administration and policy analysis at Stanford University (1981, 1985).