AAUW Application Cover Sheet

Community Action Grant Application

PROJECT DIRECTOR
Maranda Leggs E-mail:Maranda.v.leggs-1@ou.edu
Student, Structural Engineering Phone(W): 405-589-8557
660 Parrington Oval Fax:
Norman, OK 73019

Field of Expertise: Engineering

INSTITUTION
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK UNITED STATES

APPLICATION INFORMATION
Title: The Real Life of Women in Engineering Seminar
Grant Period: From 11/2017 to 4/2018
Field of Project: Engineering
Description of Project: The Real Life of Women in Engineering will be an all day lecture series
style seminar that not only inspires local high school girls to want to study a specific type of engineering,
but also gives them a realistic look into what the life of being an engineer is like. This program will go
hand and hand with the current programs at The University of Oklahoma, which have a focus on
recruiting women to engineering, by giving these young girls every advantage in knowing what they can
actually expect from each type of engineering field. This usually less emphasized information will be
invaluable to these girls because if they can discover a field they are passionate about at this young age,
then they become much more likely to stay and work their way up in a field for their entire careers.
Having passionate women in all fields of engineering, paving the way for more women to rise up, is the
only way to change the current lack of women in engineering seen today. This program will include 8 half
hour lectures by female engineers in all different fields, all from Jacobs Engineering. An hour long lunch
will be provided in the middle of the day to act as a way to foster natural relationships between the
attendees and the presenters, giving them time to ask questions and make contacts that cannot be made in
a purely lecture environment. All of the information about the seminar will be centralized around a web
page for the event on The University of Oklahoma’s website, including a description of the event, each
speakers biography, contact information, and presentation, and the link to register for the event. At every
step of this program extensive efforts will be made to ensure that every local high school girl has the
chance to attend the event, including transportation from the local high schools to the event, scholarships,
and making the event on a day that everyone will have the most likely availability.

BUDGET
Outright Request $3,000.00 Cost Sharing
Matching Request Total Budget $3,000.00
Total NEH $3,000.00

GRANT ADVISOR
William Kurlinkus E-mail:wkurlinkus@gmail.com
660 Parrington Oval Phone(W):
Norman, OK 73019 Fax:
 Table of Contents

Abstract/Executive Summary..........................................................................................................1

Project Description..........................................................................................................................2

Statement of Need/Problem Description..................................................................................2

Goals and Objectives................................................................................................................4

Methodology Proposal/Plan of Work.......................................................................................5

Project Evaluation/Deliverables................................................................................................8
Budget and Justification: The prices matter much less than the descriptions.................................9

Timeline.........................................................................................................................................10

Works Cited...................................................................................................................................11

Logic Model...................................................................................................................................12
Executive Summary

The Real Life of Women in Engineering will be an all day lecture series style seminar that not
only inspires local high school girls to want to study a specific type of engineering, but also gives them a
realistic look into what the life of being an engineer is like. This program will go hand and hand with the
current programs at The University of Oklahoma, which have a focus on recruiting women to
engineering, by giving these young girls every advantage in knowing what they can actually expect from
each type of engineering field. This usually less emphasized information will be invaluable to these girls
because if they can discover a field they are passionate about at this young age, then they become much
more likely to stay and work their way up in a field for their entire careers. Having passionate women in
all fields of engineering, paving the way for more women to rise up, is the only way to change the current
lack of women in engineering seen today. This program will include 8 half hour lectures by female
engineers in all different fields, all from Jacobs Engineering. An hour long lunch will be provided in the
middle of the day to act as a way to foster natural relationships between the attendees and the presenters,
giving them time to ask questions and make contacts that cannot be made in a purely lecture environment.
All of the information about the seminar will be centralized around a web page for the event on The
University of Oklahoma’s website, including a description of the event, each speakers biography, contact
information, and presentation, and the link to register for the event. At every step of this program
extensive efforts will be made to ensure that every local high school girl has the chance to attend the
event, including transportation from the local high schools to the event, scholarships, and making the
event on a day that everyone will have the most likely availability.

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Project Description
Statement of Need
As a woman majoring in Structural Engineering at The University of Oklahoma who has worked in the
structural engineering industry as a summer intern at a large engineering firm, it is very apparent to me
just how underrepresented women are in engineering. The underrepresentation is not just in the work
force, it starts at university. According to The University of Oklahoma’s website: “As of Spring 2016, just
over 24% of the students in the OU Gallogly College of Engineering are women.” 1 Yet, I do not believe
the underrepresentation I notice in the local engineering work force is due to a lack of trying as far as
recruitment by universities like The University of Oklahoma. There are dozens of organizations,
sororities, programs, events, and scholarships through The University of Oklahoma specifically to
encourage women to study engineering.

The real problem is keeping women in engineering. As summarized in a 2014 Huffington post article by
Rebecca Adams: “20 percent of engineering school graduates are women, yet women make up only 11
percent of practicing engineers. One in four female engineers leaves the field after age 30, compared to
only one in 10 male engineers, according to the Society of Women Engineers.”2 This of course becomes a
problem for the entire engineering field because “when women are not well represented in [STEM] fields,
everyone misses out on the novel solutions that diverse participation brings”3 (p.10). Without unique
engineering solutions, the entire world suffers the loss of countless innovations and cost saving ideas on
the construction of buildings and technology alike.

I am proposing that this issue of keeping women in engineering is due to the fact that women do not have
the passion for their fields that is necessary to fight through diversity and hardship and have a long and
prosperous career. I believe the solution to this problem is to educate high school age girls while they are
still deciding what career path they want to follow, and to give them a real life look of what the job of
being an engineer entails by listening to practicing female engineers of many different fields talk about
their careers. This way, the high school girls might be inspired at this young age to go into a field they can
stay in. In the words of Kathleen Kramer, a professor of electrical engineer at the University of San Diego
in an interview for the Standard-Examiner about what keeps women out of engineering, “It’s about
making the profession more appealing to women and helping [young girls] see the tremendous impact
they can have.”4

There is a free event hosted once a year through Microsoft called “DigiGirlz Day” which focuses on this
kind of premise, allowing high school age girls to attend events at different locations around the world
and interact with actual employees and managers, to see what work they could actually expect to do in a
high-tech firm like Microsoft, as well as doing projects and events to become excited about the industry.
Grace Gabriele, a teacher at Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey said after the event
“Kudos to Microsoft for giving young women an opportunity to explore the many options for their
futures...I was very impressed with the event and even more so with Microsoft's ability to support and
drive diversity in the workplace.”5 An event such as this but with an engineering focus on the University
of Oklahoma’s campus for all local high school girls is exactly the type of solution I am proposing.
However, even this idea should be expanded and approved upon before directly applying it to
engineering. While there are a lot of speakers at most of these DigiGirlz Days that are women, not all of
them are. An event to inspire young women and show the importance of women in engineering might be
a lot more impactful if hosted completely by women in industry.

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Although, DigiGirlz Day does certainly have some major advantages over the program options currently
available at the University of Oklahoma, of which the most notable are the “Boeing Engineering GLAMS
(Girls Learning and Applying Math and Science)” and the “Shell High School Girls Day”. The GLAMS
program is a one day event for all local high school girls to come and work on hands-on projects on
campus with current students, while the Shell High School Girls Day is an all day event featuring talks
from University of Oklahoma professors and students, as well as college advisors. The issue with these
programs is the lack of industry professionals. While University professors and students can tell you the
concept and groundwork for an industry, most of them cannot tell you what you can actually reasonably
expect from working in a certain type of engineering field, or about the types of projects and variety of
disciplines that are available.

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Goals and Objectives
Goals
To give high school girls in Norman, Oklahoma a proper outlook on the engineering field not
skewed by being too girly or geeky (so no polarizing them for being women) but instead to focus
on the work that they can do
To give both groups, the high school age girls and the professional aged women, a
passion/increase in passion for not only the engineering field, but in getting other women into the
engineering field
To make strong connections between the attending high school girls and the presenting female
engineers
To intertwine the efforts of the University of Oklahoma that are currently all focused on solely
recruiting women with efforts to make upcoming college age women want to be recruited
To make women feel more welcome and normalized in the professional engineering world

Objectives

For the answers to a post-event survey of both the attendants to show a significant increase in the
understanding of these young girls of what to expect out of different engineering fields and in
interest of different engineering fields as compared to the answers from a pre-event survey
For the answers to a post-event survey of the presenters and volunteers to show a significant
increase their passion for the field, and to feel like they have made an impact on the lives of the
local young female population
For a 3% increase in the recruitment of women to engineering fields at the University of
Oklahoma where women are the most underrepresented, i.e. chemical, petroleum, mechanical.
(Not environmental and civil engineering because these are the “easy” choices for girls who do
not know much about what options are out there)
For women to make up at least 15% of practicing engineers by 2030, with only 1 in 6 women
leaving the engineering field before age 30
To establish this seminar as a reoccurring event at the University of Oklahoma to go alongside the
current events and programs to help inspire based on concrete knowledge of the industry, not just
a general want to go into something STEM related
For future seminars to have female engineering presenters from multiple engineering firms, not
just Jacobs Engineering, with Jacobs Engineering still having a prominent role
To provide jobs to at least 5 of the attending high school girls from the first seminar in the
engineering fields they go into study of at the University of Oklahoma at Jacobs Engineering
through the contacts they make at the seminar

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Methodology Proposal/Plan of Work

Inspiration and Proposal

When I was fifteen years old, my grandfather was a structural engineer at Jacobs Engineering. One
summer when I came to visit, he took me into his work for the day. I had always been an intelligent child
and my family was very hopeful I would go into a field like engineering where I could really use my
intelligence to its fullest extent, but I never really knew what my options were. I always liked the idea of
becoming a structural engineer like my grandfather, but he wanted to be sure in case maybe I wouldn’t
like the work he did. So he took me around that day to talk to one engineer from every sector, a civil
engineer who worked on bridges, an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, a fire protection engineer,
and on and on. But the best part of the day for me was that everyone I met with was a woman. Now that
didn’t seem too important to me at the time, but looking back on it now, it means everything to me.
Because these women were not anything out of the ordinary, they were in regular business clothes sitting
at desks with everyone else, doing real engineering work. They were meant to be there, and made me feel
like I was too. I could focus on what they were doing and telling me, and see for myself what it would
actually be like to be each and every one of them. So while I did end up becoming a structural
engineering major, if that work didn’t turn out to be what I thought would be the best fit for me, I would
have had the best chance to know that early on, thanks to this experience.

I believe that every young girl deserves this unique and inspiring opportunity. Knowing you want to go
into a STEM field is one thing, but to have the opportunity to know exactly what to expect from a specific
field, that is something all together better. To do this, I am proposing a seminar to be held at the
University of Oklahoma called “The Real Life of Women in Engineering”. This would be a one day
seminar involving 30 minute presentations from 8 different professional woman engineers from all
different fields, talking about their day to day life as engineers and what it is they love about their fields.
All high school age girls would be allowed to attend, with promotion in both Norman, Oklahoma public
high schools being the main focus.

Partnerships

To ensure the success of this program there will need to be a partnership formed between the University
of Oklahoma, Norman Public High Schools, and Jacobs Engineering.

The partnership with University of Oklahoma will be key for the success of this program because they
will provide the location, as well as volunteers for helping to organize and lead the event. The University
of Oklahoma already hosts many events of this nature, and has rooms in the Memorial Union at the heart
of campus that are very good for presenting to large groups of people using projectors, in a setting that is
more inviting than a classroom. Also, volunteers from The University of Oklahoma’s woman
organizations like the OU Society of Women Engineers and Alpha Sigma Kappa are ideal to help direct
people to the event, help set up, and to stick around to answer any questions that the attendees have about
what it is like to study engineering at the University of Oklahoma, because not only can they help to
inspire the attending high school girls, but they too can get inspired to go into the fields they are studying.

The corporation of Norman Public High schools is also a vital component for the success of the seminar
because the bulk of the promotion for the event will be through all of the Norman Public High Schools.
All of the high schools will be encouraged to have lots of announcements made about the event, posters
put up, flyers handed out, and sign-up sheets passed around classrooms. All of the posters and flyers will
be made by the volunteers from The University of Oklahoma. Also, each school will be asked to have a
one of their school buses rented for the day to go from the school to the event and back, so that all of the
high school girls, regardless of circumstance, will be able to attend the event.

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Lastly, while there are many engineering firms that could act as the backing for the event and to supply all
or some of the presenting engineers, I am proposing to have Jacobs Engineering be the sole face of this
event. This is because Jacobs as a singular company has branches that cover the entire scope of
engineering, from petroleum and chemical engineering to water resources and land development. They
can provide all of the presenters necessary for the event on their own, so that lots of firms do not need to
work together to try to pull together this event for the first time, and instead efforts can be focused on
preparing and promoting the event and the information to be presented.

Jacobs also has a substantial background in forming groups to help their employees grow at the beginning
of their careers, as well as a well established group to specifically help women feel more at place and
welcome in the Jacobs workplace. These are called the Jacobs Future’s Network and Jacobs Women’s
Network, respectively, and can be read about on their website 6. The woman representatives from these
two groups will be the exact women that will be ideal presenters at the Real Life of Women in
Engineering Seminar, because they will be both enthusiastic about reaching out to young women
interested in engineering, and knowledgeable in the correct methods of reaching out and informing these
young women.

After this event has been established as a reoccurring event at the University of Oklahoma, more firms,
from all types of engineering and lots of locations in and out of Oklahoma, should be encouraged to have
their engineers also present at the event, while still having Jacobs be the face of the event. This will allow
the attending girls to make connections with engineers from all types of firms, in various locations, and
for the opportunity for more companies to benefit from connections made with inspired young women,
who will be knowledgeable and trained in a field they are passionate about.

Event Logistics

The pilot seminar will held on Saturday March 10, 2018, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Half of the presenters
will present in the morning from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m., lunch will be held from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m., and
the second half of the presenters will present from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The seminar will reoccur on the
second Saturday in March every year. This timing assures that no one will have issues with conflicting
holiday schedules. And by having the event on a Saturday, the presenting engineers will not need to miss
out on work to come to the event to present, and the high school girls and volunteers will not need to miss
any classes for the event.

This will make this seminar different from the “Boeing Engineering GLAMS and the “Shell High School
Girls Day”, because both of those programs happen on Fridays, which limits the high school girls who
can attend to those that can afford to miss a day of school, and those who can present to those that are
already in the local Norman area. By having the program on a Saturday, all high school girls are able to
attend, and Jacobs can have engineers come from many different offices to present. This event will also
vary from these already established programs because it will focus on not just inspiring the attendees to
want to go into a STEM field, but to inform them as to what it would actually be like to work in many
specific fields.

Another major advantage of this events focus on what it actually means to be an engineer is that it will
normalize the idea of being a woman in engineering to these girls. There will not be anything presented to
make these girls feel that they are required to be super nerdy to be an engineer, or super girly on principal
despite wanting to be an engineer, like the idea behind the name “Boeing Engineering GLAMS”. Both of
which are discussed as being harmful points of view for young girls in the AAUW article “Princess or
Geek?”7 Instead, these girls will be given every chance to see that they can work in a rewarding
environment doing any kind work that they feel passionately about.

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As of the 2017-2018 school year, there are 2,148 high school age girls in Norman, Oklahoma between the
two Norman Public High Schools: Norman High School and Norman North High School8. This seminar
expects to start out hosting 10% of the Norman female high school population, meaning 215 attendees in
the first year. All attendees will need to preregister for the event with a $10.00 registration fee, which will
cover the cost of the lunch that will be provided by The University of Oklahoma Catering Company in the
form of a box lunch brought into the presenting hall. However, 25 scholarships will be offered for the
program to each school to cover the $10 registration fee, so that this cost will not deter anyone who wants
to attend the event but may not be able to afford the additional cost of attending. There will be an option
on the registration form to indicate that you would like to receive one of the scholarships, with a small
100-300 word essay necessary on the registration form to make sure that the applicants are serious about
their want to come. Once this is filled out, the fee for the registration will be waived.

The event and lunch will be held at the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom in The University of Oklahoma
Memorial Union, because it can sit up to 600 people, and has adequate space to house the expected 215
attendees plus all volunteers and presenters while they eat lunch. All of the presenting engineers will have
large round tables with chairs all around that they will sit at during the lunch to encourage the attendees to
sit and talk casually with the professional engineers they found to be particularly interesting, or are
interested to hear from later in the day. This networking experience will be invaluable to both the
attending high school girls, who have likely had little to no experience in networking before, and for the
professional engineers, who will get the chance to network with the generation that will be coming into
the field next, and see first-hand how their presentations are inspiring them. These connections will lead
to these professional engineers getting the excited attending high school girls jobs later on.

This lunch will provide a time for real connections to be made through personal stories and questions, the
kind of sharing that does not occur in a pure lecture/seminar setting. This, along with the fact that all the
presenters will be women, really differentiates the event from the already very successful Microsoft
“DigiGirlz Day”, which does provide lunch at its locations if they are during a normal lunch time, does
not take advantage of this opportunity to share and connect.

All local news stations will be invited to come to the front of The University of Oklahoma Memorial
Union after the event to interview the attendees, presenters, and volunteers about their excitement and
what all they learned/talked about that day. A large banner with “The Real Life of Women in
Engineering” on it will be hung on the front of the Memorial Union to use to advertise the name of the
event for the news stations, who will want to report on an event that means such an improvement for the
entire state of Oklahoma.

Stability and Growth

Going forward, the seminars will be hosted by Jacobs Engineering, with continued support by The
University of Oklahoma through volunteers and Norman Public Schools through promotion. The only
cost to Jacobs will be the cost of renting the room to host the event, but with the direct contacts made with
the attending high school girls, which will soon be very passionate and well educated professional
engineers in the fields that Jacobs does work in, the Jacobs Future’s Network and Women’s Network will
happily pay this cost out of their group budgets. The University of Oklahoma and Norman Public High
Schools also recognize how important it is to encourage women to go into engineering and other STEM
fields, and with the involvement they already show in other programs, they will undoubtedly want to be
involved with this program as well. Jacobs may also choose to grow this program to present a similar
seminar at other universities, given that Jacobs has large offices in many major cities in the United States
that could easily provide the presenters necessary to have this program at many different universities.

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Project Evaluation/Deliverables

The presenting engineers will put together short presentations over themselves and their specific field of
work, detailing who they are, the work they do on a day to day basis, and what they hope to someday
achieve. They will also be encouraged to make their presentations interactive, to really get the attending
high school girls attention and interest. This may involve bringing something they have made/use in their
work to pass around, a small activity to illustrate what kind of work they do, a quiz with prizes for correct
or creative answers, or anything else the presenting engineer sees fit. Presenters will also be advised to
give suggestions at the end of their presentations on what the attending girls can do if they want to get
more information about that presenter’s field of study, or start down the path to that specific career.
Examples of these kinds of suggestions include: organizations to join/sit in on meetings for, future events
to attend locally, and means of contacting the presenter directly.

For the event a web page will be created on The University of Oklahoma website, as a tab on the
“Women in Engineering” section9. This web page will be linked to on all promotional posters and during
all announcements for the seminar, and will contain all of the information for the event, including the
registration link. In addition, there will be a section on the web page for each presenter containing a bio
section, contact information, their presentation, and a list of all organizations and events they may have
mentioned during their presentations. This ensures that after the seminar the attendees can ask the
presenters questions, keep in good contact, and remind themselves of what each presenter talked about
specifically.

After the event, there will be a survey given to each of the attendees. This survey will be 6 questions long
and will be given out at the end of the last presentation. The goal of this survey is to assess how much of
an impact the event had on the attendees, and what can be changed in the future to have more of an
impact. The questions for the survey will be: “Were you interested in going into Engineering/any other
STEM fields before this seminar/lecture?”, “Are you interested in any specific fields now?”, “Do you feel
you now have a better idea of what it is actually like to work in an engineering field?”, “Have you made
any contacts today?”, “Who was your favorite presenter?”, and “Is there anything that could be changed
about the event to improve your experience?”. At the bottom of the survey will also be a reminder that all
of the presentations from the seminar will be on the web page for the seminar and that the attendees
should feel encouraged to get in contact with any of the presenters.

The presenters and volunteers will be given a separate 4 question survey at the same time as the survey
for the attendees to assess if they feel they had a significant impact on the girls they presented to and if
they felt their presence at the seminar was worthwhile. The questions for this survey will be: “Did the
audience feel engaged during the presentations?” “Did the provided lunch give you appropriate time to
make connections with attendees?” “Did you make any connections with attendees you hope to help
while they start their college experience in any way you can?” and “Is there anything that could be
changed about the event to improve your experience?”.

Before the event takes place, promotion for the event can be evaluated based on the preregistration for the
event. If two weeks prior to the event there is less than 100 high school girls registered to come,
promotional efforts will need to be increased. To accomplish this, one of the presenting engineers or
volunteers from the OU Women in Engineering or Alpha Sigma Kappa groups will be asked to come give
a short speech describing the event at both Norman High School and Norman Public High School.
Advertisement for the event could also be extended to other Oklahoma Public Schools, since high school
age girls from all over Oklahoma are welcome to attend, advertisement efforts are just to be focused on
the Norman Public School population to begin with.

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Budget and Justification

Total Cost of Item Budget Item and Description

$500.00 Rent cost of the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom in the University of Oklahoma, which
can house 600 people. This is the rate for renting the room for an entire Saturday.

$500.00 Support staff to take care of the event location, including bringing in the provided
lunch and cleaning up after the event.

$500.00 25 registration scholarships for each of the Norman Public High Schools, totaling
in 50 $10.00 scholarships.

$300.00 Supplies for all the promotion to be done at each school, including all of the paper
for printing flyers, and for making large posters to be put up at both schools.

$100.00 Printing services for printing out all of the surveys for both the attendees and the
presenters and volunteers.

$1,000.00 $500.00 school bus rental for each Norman Public School to transport students
from their high school to the event and back.

$50.00 Having a professional web page set up for the event on The University of
Oklahoma website.

$50.00 Having a paid volunteer from one of The University of Oklahoma organizations to
be the point of contact between Norman Public High Schools and the university, as
well as being in charge of contacting all local news outlets to advertise the event.
$3,000.00 Total

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Timeline

Date Description

Nov. 6, 2017 A professional will be hired to start making the web page for the event. Have an
email sent out through all local Jacobs Engineering offices asking for volunteers
for who would like to present.
Nov. 27, 2017 Start making personal contact with everyone that has volunteered to be a speaker
for the event to give them advice on what to prepare for the event and plan for the
specific date. Reach out to additional engineers within Jacobs if not enough women
volunteer, or if there is a field not being represented.
Dec. 4, 2017 The OU Women in Engineer and Alpha Sigma Kappa groups start holding
reoccurring volunteer days to start making the posters and flyers for the event.

Dec. 29, 2017 Volunteer applications due- final day for potential volunteers to decide on whether
or not they will be attending the event. Biographies and contact information to be
submitted with volunteer applications so that they can be added to the web page.
Jan. 2, 2018 The start of Norman Public Schools spring semester. The web page for the event
will go up and registration for the event will open. Announcements will be started,
flyers will be handed out, and posters will be put up at both Norman Public High
Schools.
Feb. 5, 2018 Second round of flyers handed out at both high schools. Contact is made with all of
the local news stations to prepare them for the upcoming event.

Feb. 12, 2018 Final presentations to be submitted by the volunteer engineers so that their
presentations can be put on the web page and the event itinerary can be finalized.

Feb. 26, 2018 Renting of the buses for the event. Preparations of the catering put into place.

Mar. 10, 2018 Event takes place. Post event survey takes place and answers are read and
analyzed. Presentations are put on the event web page.

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1
Gallogly College of Engineering, “Women in Engineering Program” http://www.ou.edu/coe/student_life/wie.html
(last accessed 10/28/2017)
2
Rebecca Adams, “40 Percent Of Female Engineers Are Leaving The Field. This Might Be Why.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html (last accessed 10/28/2017)
3
AAUW, “Why Diversity Matters” Solving the Equation (2015): pg.10
4
Leia Larsen, “Why are There so Few Female Engineers?” http://www.standard.net/Science/2015/08/09/Why-are-
there-so-few-female-engineers (last accessed 10/28/2017)
5
Grace Gabriele, “DigiGirlz Day” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/programs/digigirlz/digigirlzday.aspx
(last accessed 10/28/2017)
6
Jacobs Engineering, “Where Can Your Career Take You?” http://www.jacobs.com/join-us (last accessed
10/29/2017)
7
AAUW, “Princess of Geek” https://www.aauw.org/2015/11/09/princess-or-geek/ (last accessed 10/29/2017)
8
GRAPHIQ, “Norman Public High Schools” http://public-schools.startclass.com/l/73618/Norman-High-School (last
accessed 10/29/2017)
9
Gallogly College of Engineering, “Women in Engineering Program” http://www.ou.edu/coe/student_life/wie.html
(last accessed 10/28/2017)

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Program: The Real Life of Women in Engineering
great job!!!

Inputs Outputs Outcomes

Activities Objectives Short Medium Long

Primary Research:
What is invested: Current OU
Programs Post event, all
6-8 practicing Making contacts
Actual presentations
professional between presenters Establish this event
Workforce made and
women engineers and attendees as a reoccurring
makeup presented at the Getting the attending
from Jacobs event posted on seminar to add to high school girls jobs in
Engineering from the page of the the current programs the engineering fields
different fields 1-hour OU website for the at OU, to link they study at OU at
Inspire local high
presentation by event recruiting programs Jacobs Engineering and
school girls to want
$4,000 AAUW each professional to this program that other large firms that
to become specific
grant engineer, inspires women to they know they will like
types of engineers
including Q&A Connections go into, and stay in, the culture of and already
Volunteers and made between specific fields of have contacts in
lunch from the OU current working engineering
Society of Women Lunch with all of engineers and Normalize the idea Making women feel more
Engineers and the, attendees, upcoming college of women in welcome and normalized
Alpha Sigma engineers, and students in the engineering to the Increase the in the professional
Kappa volunteers same fields Norman High School enrollment by 3% at engineering world
population the University of
Partnerships with
Oklahoma by 2020
the University of Anonymous pre Data about
in less female For women to make up
Oklahoma and and post seminar student opinions
populated at least 15% of practicing
Norman Public surveys, one for towards specific
Inspire the engineering fields, engineers by 2030, with
High Schools attendees and types of
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