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The Women in Engineering Office (WIE) offers professional, academic and social services to the women of the Viterbi School. The goal of the Viterbi Women in Engineering Office is to recognize the unique challenges that face female engineering students and provide resources and overall support that will address these challenges and allow our female students to find personal and professional success during their Viterbi career and beyond.



Congratulations Class of 2008!
The Women in Engineering Office congratulates all of our graduating seniors. Thank you for all you have done for the Viterbi School of Engineering. We wish you the best in all your future endeavors!

Congratulations New Viterbi Students!
The Women in Engineering Office extends a warm welcome to all of our recently admitted female Viterbi School of Engineering students. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Viterbi's Women of the Year!
Click below for the profiles of our 2007-8 Viterbi Women of the Week.
Week of October 29th: Stacey Schwartz
Week of November 5th: Jackie Reed
Week of November 12th: Stephanie Herzog
Week of November 19th: Rebecca Blasdell
Week of November 26th: Althea Lyman
Week of December 3rd: Elizabeth K. So
Week of January 14th: Hayley McGuire
Week of January 21st: Kimberly Pacheco
Week of January 28th: Farzana Ansari
Week of February 11th: Amy Lin
Week of February 18th: Katy Houston
Week of February 25th: Katharina Zappei
Week of March 10th: Torey Raphael
Week of March 24th: Josi Schwan
Week of March 31st: Rebeca Medina
Week of April 14th : Jessica Kofoid

Exciting Research Opportunity
| 4.9.08 |

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), in conjunction with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), is pleased to announce two programs that involve undergraduate student research. The goal of these initiatives is to increase the numbers of women and minorities who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering.
 
The Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) program is designed to provide positive research experiences for teams of undergraduates who will work during the academic year at their home institutions.  CREU is designed to encourage young computer scientists and engineers from all under represented groups to consider graduate school.

The Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities for Women (MRO-W) program is designed to provide positive multidisciplinary research experiences for teams of undergraduates from at least two academic disciplines at their home institutions.  MRO-W students work collaboratively on a multidisciplinary project during the academic year and during the following summer. 
 
Students will work with one or two sponsoring faculty members on a project for which monetary support is typically not available. Students will each receive a stipend of $3,000 for their work during the academic year and $4000 for their MRO-W summer work. CREU may also receive $500 and MRO-W may receive $1500 to be used for associated special equipment, travel, or supporting materials.
 
Teams consisting of all women or all under represented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. In order to support the exchange of shared common experiences, individual teams should be homogeneous with respect to minority status or gender.
 
See the websites below for specific information about Basic Eligibility and Evaluation Criteria.  You may also see the reports from previous years for examples of funded CREU and MRO-W projects.
Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities for Women (MRO-W)
Application deadline: May 9th


Congratulations to Viterbi's Remarkable Women!!!
|3.24.08 |
WIE congratulates our very own Director of the Women in Engineering Office, Kate Baxter, undergraduate Mechanical Engineering major, Robyn Strumpf, and Jean Morrison, Vice Provost for Graduate Programs and Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Women in Science and Engineering Program (WISE).

Viterbi's Remarkable Women!

Click here to read an article about these Remarkable Women!!!



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