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Women in Engineering

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  • [Periodical Article]

    Women in Engineering (editorial)

    The United States is one of the world’s leaders in technology and innovation, a position it owes largely to the strength of its engineering and technical workforce. However, that workforce faces increasing challenges, both internal and external in nature, that threaten our nation’s ... Read More

    Author: Wm. A. Wulf and E. Gail de Planque

    Women in Engineering

    Release date: Summer 1999

    Volume: 29

    Number: 2

  • [Periodical Article]

    Women in Engineering: Focus on Success

    Numerous opportunities exist for creative solutions to the problem of insufficient numbers of women engineers in the workforce. I would like to offer some suggestions, based on recent research and my personal experience, for increasing the number of women engineers in the workforce, the ... Read More

    Author: Donna Shirley

    Women in Engineering

    Release date: Summer 1999

    Volume: 29

    Number: 2

  • [Periodical Article]

    Increasing Diversity in the Engineering Workforce

    Scientists and engineers with diverse backgrounds, interests, and cultures can produce better scientific and technological results, as well as ensure the best uses of those results. Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reported some positive news in its 1998 ... Read More

    Author: Neal Lane

    Women in Engineering

    Release date: Summer 1999

    Volume: 29

    Number: 2

  • [Periodical Article]

    Creating Opportunities for Participation

    As we begin a new century and a new millennium, attracting women to the U.S. engineering enterprise is part of the larger global concern with diversity and opportunity. On behalf of President Clinton and the Department of Transportation, I am delighted to have this opportunity to ... Read More

    Author: Rodney E. Slater

    Women in Engineering

    Release date: Summer 1999

    Volume: 29

    Number: 2

  • [Periodical Article]

    The Future of Women in Engineering

    New, sustainable, and comprehensive initiatives for bringing women into engineering are possible but will require changes in the status quo. Several months ago I began my research for these comments by asking what there was to celebrate about women in engineering. Over the months, in ... Read More

    Author: Nancy Ramsey

    Women in Engineering

    Release date: Summer 1999

    Volume: 29

    Number: 2