Brooklyn program exposes girls to careers in engineering
An innovative program in Brooklyn is exposing young women to the lucrative field of engineering.
Dozens of middle and high school girls recently attended Poly Prep Country Day School’s second annual Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering (W.I.S.E.) on the Dyker Heights campus. The all-day event included professional engineers as speakers, workshops presented by women in engineering, an engineering fair and more.
Recent grads are discovering that career prospects for many types of engineers are wide open. Although female students make up 55 percent of the undergraduate student population in our country, they only make up 20 percent of the engineering undergraduate student population.