At Cornell there has been a recent increase in the number of women enrolling in the University’s engineering article. In just five years, the percentage of undergraduate women in the college has risen from 19 percent to more than 25 percent. Engineering schools in the United States average 20 percent women undergraduates.
At the Engineering Faculty at Rome University La Sapienza 27% of first year incoming students are women.
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Gennaio 8, 2008 at 3:16 pm
GIRLS AND ENGINEERING DAY
Yale Engineering hosted a “Girls in Engineering Day” on Tuesday, April 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Dunham Laboratory. Eighty middle-school students and their teachers from the Greater New Haven area participated in the event. The agenda included demonstrations, talks, a lunch presentation given by women engineering students, direct participation in an eye-dropping project, and an opportunity to interact with Yale Engineering faculty and students.
Talks and demonstrations will cover the many disciplines of engineering. Among the topics scheduled are:
* “Brain Shift Compensation during Neurosurgery” with Yale graduate student Christine DeLorenzo,
* “Soft Matter a.k.a. Squishy Physics” with Eric Dufresne, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and physics.
* “Lasers, Lights and Medicine” with Michael Levene, assistant professor of biomedical engineering
* “Material Science-Memory Metal” with Yale engineering undergraduate student Quentin Lindsey
* “Effects of consumer products on fish and drinking water” William Mitch, assistant professor of chemical engineering
* “Intro to Chemical Engineering” with Yale engineering graduate student Jenny Phelps
* “How to Make Nylon” with Camille Solbrig, associate research scientist in biomedical engineering
* “Intro to Nanotechnology” with Yale graduate student Eric Stern in Engineering & Applied Science
* “How the Road of Failure leads to Success” with Glenn Weston-Murphy, engineering design advisor in the Faculty of Engineering.