All Entries Tagged With: "engineering"
Women Are Making Slow Progress in Obtaining Engineering Faculty Positions
In 2011, women held 13.8 percent of all engineering faculty positions at colleges and universities in the United States. This is up from 9.2 percent a decade ago.
Arizona State University Launches Girls in Engineering: Shaping the Future Program
Program will introduce sixth-grade girls to an engineering curriculum with the hope that it may encourage them to pursue engineering when they enter college.
Study Finds That Retention Programs Aimed at Women in Engineering May Be More Effective When Race Is Considered
University of Washington study suggests different approaches may lead to more success.
The New Dean of the College of Engineering at Cal Poly
Debra Larson will be the leader of the university’s largest college with 5,000 students and 13 degree programs.
A Milestone Appointment at Georgia Tech
Janes Chumley Ammons is the first woman named to a school chair at Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering.
Ranking the States in Producing Women Graduates in STEM Fields
Some states did a far better job in steering women toward degrees in STEM fields than other states.
Karen Watson Named President-Elect of ABET
Karen Watson, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, provost, and vice president for academic affairs at Texas A&M University, was chosen as president-elect of ABET, formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Women Are Increasing Their Share of Degrees in STEM Fields
New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that women are making progress in closing the gender gap in degree attainments in the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In 2009, women earned 134,634 degrees in STEM fields. This was up from 127,134 STEM degrees in 2001. In 2009 women earned […]
Janie Fouke to Head Engineering School in Singapore
Janie M. Fouke was named head of the engineering school of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. When she assumes her new post in July, she will be the first woman to lead an engineering school in Singapore.
“Rocket Girls” Ready to Blast Off
On Saturday April 16, teams from 30 universities will be competing in the 2011 NASA University Launch Initiative in Toney, Alabama. One of the 30 teams is the “Rocket Girls” from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. The team is made up of 16 women, most of whom are majoring in either aerospace or mechanical engineering.
Tufts University Receives Grant Aimed to Increase the Number of Women Engineers
The Center for Engineering and Education Outreach at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, received a $60,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation for a program that aims to increase the number of women in engineering.
Number of Women Faculty at MIT in the Sciences Has Almost Doubled Since 1999
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently released a report finding that since 1999, the number of women faculty in the sciences and engineering is up by nearly 100 percent since 1999.
