Work In Progress: WE CAN: Introducing High School Girls to Electrical Engineering

The WECAN program is designed to introduce high school female students to concepts in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). The program is focused on young women who have completed a pre-calculus class during their junior year of high school. A two week summer camp was held in the summer of 2006. During the camp, we cover approximately 60% of the course content contained in our freshman level ECE course. The camp is limited to female students only -those wishing to receive credit for EE 1304 may do so by completing a distance learning component of the course. Follow-up efforts continue during students´ senior high school year (2006-07) to maintain contact and enhance recruiting efforts, as well as to determine for project evaluation purposes whether students who attended the camp enroll in engineering school