According to the American Society for Engineering Education, CU Boulder leads the nation in the percentage of first-year female engineering students.
BOULDER, Colo. — Getting more women interested in STEM careers has been a goal for high schools and colleges. Now, the University of Colorado Boulder can claim some bragging rights.For the past 20 years, CU Boulder said it's been their goal to get more women into the industry. Megan Conard is one of their recent mechanical engineering graduates.
"There wasn’t a bathroom for women," she said."I was actually the first woman who had shown up to this project, and so they had to split the trailer they were using as a restroom in half and create a bathroom for me." Dean of CEAS Keith Molenaar graduated from the College in 1987 and has been on faculty since 1999. He said historically, women have been underrepresented in engineering. Two decades ago, they decided to do something about it.
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