Carol Bartz Receives Exploratorium Director's Award
Autodesk Inc.'s Chairman of the Board Carol Bartz was honored last week
at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco with the Exploratorium's
prestigious Director's Award recognizing leadership in technology,
science, and education. Hailed as an advocate for education in math,
science, and technology, Bartz also received the Girls Inc. award last month for
her work to inspire achievement in young women and girls, and later
this month she will be the first woman engineer to receive the
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering's
Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award. Bartz was chairman,
president, and CEO of Autodesk for 14 years before she stepped down
from her president and CEO roles in April, 2006.
