ABOUT WIE

The Women in Engineering Program at The University of Akron will serve as a catalyst for increasing the number of women in engineering through the following strategic goals.

  • Recruit women into The University of Akron’s College of Engineering.
  • Retain and graduate female undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Develop and empower highly qualified and professionally responsible women engineers.
  • Form strategic partnerships between The Women in Engineering Program, campus-wide departments, the community and industry.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Replay for Kids  - Thursday, Feb. 12, 3 - 5 p.m. (Student Union Room 335)
  • Kids' Career Day - Saturday, Feb. 28 
  • Women's Advocacy - Women Connecting in the Workplace: Supporting Individual and Organizational Success (Speaker/Dinner/Mentoring) - Thursday, March 3, 5:30 - 7 p.m.(Student Union Ballroom C)

CONTACT

Heidi Cressman, Director
Women in Engineering Program
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3901
330-972-7701
wiep@uakron.edu

    

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Sarah Roth, a chemical engineering graduate student discusses her summer internship studying propellant slosh dynamics. Video produced and provided by NASA.

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