In 1969 a Purdue alumnus was the first astronaut to set foot on the moon, 47 women were enrolled as undergraduates in Purdue Engineering programs, and Purdue started the nation’s 1st Women in Engineering Program! 🚀
This past Saturday I attended the WIEP 50th Anniversary events held on Purdue’s campus. It was really great to be able to celebrate a program that for 50 years has been at the forefront of including, empowering, and advocating for women to study engineering and be engineers. I really enjoyed all the speakers and workshops and felt really inspired hearing about the experiences of other women engineers and the history of women in engineering in Purdue and around the world!
I was also really honored to receive the 2019 Emily M. Wadsworth Graduate Mentoring Award during the WIEP 50th Anniversary Luncheon. Having worked on the Graduate Mentoring Program’s Leadership Team, been a part of ABE’s peer mentoring program, and committed other service to the community, it means so much to me to have those efforts recognized in this way. I can’t believe my name is on the plaque with so many other wonderful women, some of whom I’m lucky to know and count as friends! Here’s hoping that we come close to achieving gender equity in engineering in the next 50 years!
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