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Female Students Ponder Future in Engineering
Caldwell Elementary
students participate in Cal State Long Beach engineering program
From staff reports
A
group of 20 fifth grade girls from Caldwell Elementary School visited
the campus of Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) on Friday, Nov. 9 as invited
participants of the Women Engineers @ the Beach program.
This technology education conference designed specifically for girls
is an innovative outreach program sponsored by Raytheon and co-sponsored
by the Society of Women Engineers, Institute of Electrical & Electronics
Engineering and CSULB’s 49er Bookstore.
According to Lily Gossage, director of Engineering Recruitment and Retention
Center and Event Coordinator, currently less than 10 percent of the engineering
workforce is comprised of women. The purpose is to promote the discipline of
engineering to young women in elementary through high schools and increase the
percentage of women in the engineering academia and industry.
The College of Engineering hosted more than 300 female students from Southern
California with strong academic backgrounds in math/science and an interest in
learning about careers in engineering.
Caldwell students were motivated by inspirational remarks by the keynote speaker
Antoinette Massey, a senior mechanical engineer from Raytheon, Space and Airborne
Systems. The students later participated in hands-on activities through a variety
of engineering awareness workshops.
The workshops were designed to teach them about mechanical, aeronautical, electrical
and civil engineering. Students were given the opportunity to bridge the gap
between classroom and real-life experiences as they learned about Auto CAD 3-D
drawing systems, robotics, MATLab, roller coaster engineering and the computer
simulation of building bridges.
A number of fun-filled competitions challenged students’ critical thinking
and reasoning skills. Prizes were awarded as students competed in activities
like building windmills, paper towers, catapults and aluminum barges.
As the day ended, students not only left with a newfound appreciation and excitement
about careers in engineering, but with goodie bags filled with supplies donated
by Raytheon and the 49er Bookstore at CSULB.
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