Dean engineers crack in glass ceiling
When she conceptualized the freshman seminar “The Engineering of Ice Cream,” Kyle Vanderlick, then the chair of Princeton’s Chemical Engineering Department, was looking for a way to get college students excited about the possibilities of engineering.
The introductory-level engineering course packed in all the basics — everything from the thermodynamics of refrigerators and the chemistry of ice-cream proteins to the imaging techniques optimal for visualizing ice cream under a microscope — but with a decidedly refreshing spin.
“It was a really great chance to go deep into...
The article states "In its most recent issue, the American Society for Engineering Education ranked Yale first for the number of female students who earned bachelor’s degrees in engineering."
How can that be? According to
http://www.asee.org/publications/profiles/upload/2006ProfileEng.pdf
In the academic year 2005-6, Georgia Tech awarded 306 engineering degrees to women. Among the Ivies, Cornell awarded 183 engineering degrees to women. Yale doesn't even award this many engineering degrees each year.