The US Bureau of Lab or Statistics reports that in 1999, women made up 24.5 percent of doctors compared with 6.1 percent in 1950. The Lore-El Center at Stevens sponsors programs designed to encourage girls to enjoy working with technology. The cornerstone of Lore-El’s pre-college program is a two-week summer resident session for high school students in engineering. The program also works to examine innovative ways of teaching physics and dispelling stereotypes associated with engineering. The Lore-El Center works to show students what engineers do and the contributions they make in society, where much of everything is generated by engineers, or improved by them to make a better product. Experts are designing a series of games and experiments with Tufts University to be tested at schools across the country, so that teachers and principals who have no experience in engineering can take the modules and implement them in their classrooms.
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Role Models Needed
Programs, Some Formal and Others in the Field, Seek to Convince More Women to Follow the Calling of Technology.
Barbara Wolcott, a frequent contributor to Mechanical Engineering, is a freelance writer based ill Sail Luis Obispo, Calif.
Mechanical Engineering. Apr 2001, 123(04): 46-51 (6 pages)
Published Online: April 1, 2001
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Wolcott, B. (April 1, 2001). "Role Models Needed." ASME. Mechanical Engineering. April 2001; 123(04): 46–51. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2001-APR-1
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