Penn State 's Women in Engineering Program
(WEP) serves a community of approximately 1700 women
graduate and undergraduate students and faculty in the
College of Engineering. WEP focuses on development
retention, recruitment, and overall climate enhancement
activities. The WEP community includes women of all ethnic
and racial backgrounds encompassing thirteen engineering
departments and programs at Penn State's University Park
Campus and twenty-four Commonwealth Campus locations
throughout the state.
The Women in Engineering Program is
administered through the Engineering Diversity Office which
promotes the recruitment, development and retention of women and
underrepresented minorities into engineering.
Working with corporations, engineering alumni,
University offices, faculty, and students, WEP has initiated and
supports a variety of targeted activities, including
departmentally based mentoring projects, hands-on equipment
classes, career development workshops, orientation for incoming
women at all levels, and individual contact. Successful
initiatives are extended to students and faculty throughout the
college.
Industry and Penn State engineering alumni
are crucial partners in WEP, providing role models, advice,
job experience, and support. Twice yearly, the
Dean's Advisory
Board for the Women in Engineering Program, made up of
leaders in a variety of engineering and engineering-related
professions, meets to evaluate WEP activities. WEP also
works closely with
The Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering
Education,
Engineering
Instructional Services, the
Multicultural Engineering Program, the
Learning Factory, and the
University Libraries
to achieve its mission.
An important current objective is to
increase scholarship, fellowship, and programmatic resources
to help women students succeed in realizing individual and
civic potential, earn an engineering degree, and enter the
engineering profession.
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To
recruit women into engineering
