Regardless of the recent plague of layoffs, many U.S. manufacturers are still faced with a serious shortage of qualified engineers. Those that aren't right now, soon will be when we start pulling out of the current economic doldrums. Yet a vast pool of potential engineering talent continues to be untapped. Why? Because most of the folks in this talent pool--which comprises a bit more than half of the U.S. population--generally don't even consider a career in engineering.
Writing in the March 2001 issue of Prism, published by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Margaret Mannix notes that it is no secret there is a paucity of women in engineering. She …
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