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Choose UA!
Why UA is a Great School...
Especially
for Women who Want to be Engineers!
Dynamic speakers from engineering corporations discuss career and strategies for success.
The Women in Engineering and Peer Group Discussion Class is designed for female freshman engineering students. The course consists of four components:
- Dynamic speakers from industry discuss their strategies for success in all disciplines of engineering
- Lively class discussions surrounding a variety of topics including resume writing, business etiquette and alternative engineering careers.
- Weekly peer group meetings facilitated by senior engineering students.
- Facility tours to leading edge engineering corporations.
We have a class especially
for women entering engineering studies!
The Women in Engineering Seminar and Peer Group
Discussion Class is designed for incoming female
freshman engineering students. The course consists of
three components; presentations by guest speakers, class
discussions, and weekly peer group meetings facilitated
by female engineering students in their final year of
school. Other activities for building professional
awareness include; one to two plant trips to local
manufacturing or engineering companies and participation in the Engineering Career Fair.
he course is offered each fall semester. It meets
on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:20 - 4:10 pm. The
course number is 4100:110:001. Goals and Objectives
for the course include:
1. Providing a variety of speakers who share their
knowledge and experience about the many areas and career
options available in engineering.
2. Discuss the ways in which women balance their professional
and personal lives.
3. Stimulating involvement and interaction with working
women engineers and with other women engineering students
and organizations on campus.
4. Providing information and strategies for the academic
and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in engineering.
5. Ensuring a small group structure that provides
information and promotes supportive relationships and
peers with similar academic and career goals.
- Sponsorship: Be paired up with an upperclassman in
your major!
- Professional Mentoring: Have the opportunity to meet
and shadow women in industry!
- Scholarships: Information and applications for scholarships
encouraging females in engineering!
- Counseling: Personal advisement from our faculty and
staff!
- Society of Women Engineers(SWE):a 100 student organization
of women just like you.
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The University of Akron
Women in Engineering Program
ASEC 205D
Akron, Ohio 44325-3901
Phone: (330) 972-7701
Fax: (330) 972-5162
Email: wiep@uakron.edu
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