UH engineering professors played host to a dozen fifth grade girls from Windsong Intermediate School in Friendswood ISD by showing how engineering careers can be fascinating, fun and ideally suited for girls who want to make a difference in the world. Students saw live demonstrations in applied engineering, shadowed a professor in the lab and developed their own interpretations of engineering through interactive projects. Women are severely underrepresented in the engineering profession.
Women now fill only nine percent of all engineering positions.
Research shows that girls and young women lose interest in subjects and the fields of study that lead to engineering careers long before they enter college.