Abstract
A number of innovative approaches are afoot that aim to draw more women to careers in engineering and science. Some of the approaches are programs designed to retain women's interest in science and math in the years when it's most likely to wane. Another approach suggests ways to make the science curriculum more female friendly. Several such programs were described at the fourth annual Women in Engineering Conference held late last month in Washington, D.C. The conference focused on increasing enrollment and retention of women in engineering and was sponsored by the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network. There are hard-core business reasons for recruiting more women into engineering, says Lynn E. Bertuglia, an engineer with Black & Veatch (an architectural and engineering consulting firm in Kansas City, Mo.) and chairman of the National Society of Professional Engineers' Women in Engineering Task Force. For example, if businesses are to compete globally in coming years, they ...
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