What more does the Women in Engineering Office (WIE) need to do?
We must support our current students and encourage younger girls interested in engineering to apply and be successful at Viterbi. WIE is geared towards helping female students navigate their academics, their leadership and social commitments and have a successful undergraduate experience. As an underrepresented group, women benefit from this additional support and future female engineers see the WIE Office as a comforting resource. Not every woman is meant to be an engineer, but I’ll be happy when every woman who wants to be an engineer finds it a viable career opportunity. What does the WIE program offer? WIE supports our current undergraduate women, and introduces younger girls to the concept of engineering. WIE Connect is an outreach program held at USC where our undergraduate women lead high school girls in a range of activities, such as Engineering 101 and Engineering Adventures. These high school girls start understanding what engineering is and our undergraduate women build thei
