Engineering: A Career Choice for Young Women
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The Discover Engineering Summer Camp, launched in 1991, is a summer day camp that targets students in grades 10 to 12. According to the data from the 2001 camp, 98% of the participants indicated that the camp increased their knowledge about engineering, and 94% indicated that the camp increased their interest in considering engineering as a career option. This paper discusses activities that have been effective in educating young women about the challenges and rewards of engineering careers, that have shown engineering to be a viable profession to consider, and have motivated many of the young women to choose engineering educational and career paths. It also discusses information collected from the young women regarding their future career choices, shows how they ranked the importance of various career factors such as ‘lifestyle’, ‘salary’ and ‘challenge’, and compares how the students heading towards engineering ranked the various career factors versus the other students.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003