Engineering open house for females planned at Roebling Museum
FLORENCE — Engineering isn’t just a boy’s club.
3 in 10 engineering students are female
Female students are making inroads into the traditionally male-dominated field of engineering, as initiatives to attract them start to pay off. Related Stories Smallest number of fires in 15 years, injuries and fatalities up SIA to add 20 more Australian cities to codeshare network Man charged with molestation after sneaking into Yishun flat Jailed for breaking wife's nose over her boyfriend S.L ...
Engineering safer drinking water in Africa
In the United States and other developed countries, fluoride is often added to drinking water and toothpaste to help strengthen teeth. But too much naturally occurring fluoride can have exactly the opposite effect.
Malaysia-born woman made dean of award-winning engineering faculty
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) - A Malaysian-born woman has been named dean of Waterloo University Canada's award-winning engineering faculty.
Google Mind The Gap Program Aims To Get More Women Into Computer Engineering
Google ran a blog post today about how it encourages women to study engineering, highlighting its “Mind the Gap” program. The program aims to tackle the issue of the decline in females studying computer science globally. “Teenage years have been …
Why there are fewer women in math related fields
There are a lot of stereotypes of engineers, some negative, few positive, but the image most people see when they think of engineers is overwhelmingly of a male. It’s not really far from the truth. Although more than half of the students in college are women, majors in the science, technology, engineering and math fields attract far fewer female students than males. According to a study by the ...
Butler America Receives National Certification as Women's Business Enterprise.
SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Butler America, Inc., a business specializing in Technical Outsourcing Service Solutions, received national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by ...
Columbia Journalism School and Stanford School of Engineering Announce Joint $30 Million Gift From David and Helen ...
NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA-- - Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University's School of Engineering today announced a $30 million gift from longtime Cosmopolitan magazine ...
Leahy: Social engineering and military might
Now that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, we are looking for savings from the Department of Defense. We also are using the military to make social statements. This is not unusual; it happens after the end of every war. I lived through the peace dividend after the end of the Vietnam War.
SanDisk Encourages Students to Pursue Careers in Engineering and Technology With $1 Million Annual Scholarship Program
SanDisk Corporation , a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, announced today it will award $1,000,000 this year in needs-based scholarships to students fro