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How to involve more women and girls in engineering

  • Written by Carolyn Conner Seepersad, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
imageLet's see how this works.Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, CC BY-NC

As millions of students of all ages return to school this fall, they are making important choices that have a strong influence on their eventual career path – which college majors to pursue, which high school classes to take, even which elementary...

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