Opportunities for Corporate Involvement
Ways to Get Involved
- WEP welcomes participation and support for all activities!!!
- External participation includes gifts of support, equipment and time. See below for opportunities that match your company or institutional objectives.
- GET INVOLVED EARLY AND OFTEN!
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Company Benefits from Involvement
Meet and engage women students early
Penn State Engineers are among the most sought after graduates in the world. Penn State offers a diverse and large population. WEP serves more than 1100 undergraduate women in the College of Engineering, approximately 20% of our undergraduate population, making Penn State one of the top ten producers of women engineers in the world.
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Identify your company with student activities and support
Sponsorship of WEP activities creates a reputation as an active and involved company and builds name recognition for your company in the University community.
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Help to shape student preparation for the workplace
Industry funding makes possible the development of hands-on classes and activities that help to retain women and to better prepare students for the workplace.
Make use of our services to identify potential employers
- Access the WEP Resume Database
- Identify outstanding candidates
- Post information on undergraduate, graduate & alumnae listservs
- Get information on student attitudes and activities
- Reap the intangible benefits
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It's rewarding. Few things are more satisfying than interacting with enthusiastic and smart engineering undergraduates. It helps the students and reminds us of what it's all about.
Funding Opportunities
The WEP E-Mentoring Program:
Professional engineering women correspond by e-mail with undergraduate engineering women, sharing information about the profession and offering encouragement to stay in the engineering curriculum
The Women in Engineering Program Orientation ( WEPO )
WEPO has introduced hundreds of first year engineering women each year to networking, teamwork, mentoring, and engineering design. WEPO is an ideal way to get to know the next generation of engineering women.
The WEP Girls in Engineering Project
Middle school is an age when girls need reinforcement in non-traditional choices. WEP offers Girl Scout Saturdays and a challenging hands-on summer camp with engineering role models designed to help them stay the course.
Preparation for Career Success
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The WEP Leadership Project Fund WEP students for opportunities as Interns, Peer Instructors, Project Leaders and Mentors, with an emphasis on gaining hands-on confidence and competence, particularly in computers.
Scholarships for outstanding students
Build relationships with students through scholarship funding and related internships.
Unrestricted giving
Provide funding for new or existing WEP Programming as needed.
Ready to build a relationship with the Penn State Women in Engineering
Program?
Contact:
Amy Freeman,
Assistant Dean of Engineering Diversity
208 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802
814-863-5790 / 814-863-7496 (fax)
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