Women in Engineering

DrGoogle123
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 07:40:06 +0000

I went to engineering school from 1977-1981 for Electrical Engineering, about 5 women in total of all engineering specialties, I don’t think I was treated any differently, it helps that I grew up with 4 brothers. I always had very high salary compared to all of my brothers in engineering, most likely because my negation skills. First job out of college thanks to joining SWE, I found there ware already tons of women in engineering in a large East Coast based company, so I don’t know why it’s a big deal today for women to be in engineering.

My daughter graduated from CS in 2017, never had any problem either, there were a lot of women in CS at her school. She didn’t do any engineering activity like Robotics in high school, most likely because she went to the first meeting and didn’t like some of the guys hogging all the attention, she sat around for a few hours doing nothing. However, in the summer before Senior year in high school, she was accepted to WTP at MIT and they did introduce some program concepts, but she didn’t think she was quick to solve some of the problems either, no natural tendency toward programming at all. She’s strong in math and was thinking of doing Math in college, but luckily she didn’t and she’s much happier with her choice. Since graduation, she’s been promoted every year, worked along side with many people from Yale, UPenn,etc. , much bigger name than her college even, and she held her own. My suggestion is not to have any preconceived notion about girls in STEM, there’s always a lot of women in engineering even back 40 years ago. In fact, my daughter never join SWE in college even. After her freshman year, she’s a tutor in CS until senior year, had paid internship every summer, graduated in 4 years, and never took more than 16 units per semester(at most).