The objective of the Women in Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education is to study, promote and improve the role of women in the professions of engineering and engineering technology through collection of data, publications, presentations at appropriate meetings, sponsorship of conferences, and similar activities. We welcome male and female members with interest in promoting these goals. For more details on the ASEE please check http://www.asee.org.

Congratulations to the newly elected officers for the 2009-2011 term (Jacqueline ElSayed, Laura L. Pauley, Susan Lantz, Pat Backer, Beena Sukumaran)! They will assume office immediately following the Annual Business Meeting in June. See more details here.

WIED is pleased to announce that the paper titled “A Cross-Institutional Comparison of Educational Factors Promoting or Discouraging the Intent to Remain in Engineering” has been selected to receive the 2009 Denice D. Denton Best Paper Award for our division. See more details here!

WEPAN and WIED have joined together to sponsor panels and a workshop on Monday June 15, 2009 and Wednesday June 17, 2009. See more details here!

New job postings are added weekly, to view click here.

According to the UKRC/Talascend Women in Engineering Survey, 65% of US Engineers responding say their employers actively take steps to encourage women to apply and progress. For the full survey, click here.

Newsworthy items are updated frequently here. Please send any announcements to the webmaster at <minerick@che.msstate.edu>.