engineering for females

lookingforward
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:22:59 +0000

First, as the number of highly qualified gals applying for engineering increases, there is no longer the same bump as a few years ago, just for being female.

“STEM ECs are dramatically overemphasized on these boards.” It doesn’t matter what applied to us, as parents. Nor some more recent anecdotes. Things change. For the more competitive colleges (holistic elites,) one of the necessities, ime, IS the relevant activities. In particular, collaborative math-sci. That does include a broad range of EC options, at least, in the US. You don;t get in over competing applicants just for being strong in stem and thinking engineering sounds interesting.

As for OP’s explanation: seeing how they’re able to do so much with their technical knowledge. I’ve wanted to be writer since forever, but lately I’ve been feeling like engineering has so much of a creative side as well, and through it, i would be able to directly impact society in a much deeper way-- creative writing is fun, but at the end of the day, it can only do so much. Well, you wouldn’t believe how many kids claim this- the creativity and the ability to impact society.

That’s not enough. Some kids aren’t doing anything “for society” now, not any of the folks they claim to want to help. Lots think engineers do these great things solo, though engineering is so collaborative. And creative? Sure, but they miss that each engineer is part of a larger process, a piece. There are plenty of routine days and projects that may not end up delivering miracles.

So, OP needs to ask herself what she really knows about what engineering is and what engineers do.