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Will Encourage LBUSD Girls to Enter Engineering Careers
Statistics show that only about 20 percent of engineering students are women, and that women make up only about 10 percent of professional engineers. Three women in the College of Engineering (COE) at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) are trying to change that.
Bei Lu and Panadda Marayong, both assistant professors from CSULB’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Lily Gossage, director of the College of Engineering Recruitment and Retention Center, have received an approximately $16,000 grant from the IEEE Control Systems Society, including supplemental funding from the California Space Grant Consortium, to implement a unique program that encourages elementary school girls to explore an interest in engineering careers.
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