Activities and Services              

The WIEP conducts activities that help make the educational experience rewarding for all students. Activities are conducted in the areas of both recruitment and retention. Recruitment programs include outreach and scholarship programs to help future women engineering students. Retention activities include counseling, peer and professional mentoring, departmental lunches, various forms of communication, and the WIEP Resource Center.
Students do not have to "join" our program.

Peer Mentoring

Peer mentoring offers a variety of services to undergraduate students, some conducted in conjunction with the local professional section of the Society of Women Engineers. Peer mentoring is offered for students to become more comfortable with the university and academic life. Professional mentoring allows students to have a role model in the form of a working engineer. Job shadowing provides an opportunity for students to experience a day in the life of a working engineer.

Departmental Lunches

Departmental Lunches are held periodically to encourage networking and communication among peers.  These lunches feature speakers on topics of interest to the students including women engineers discussing their career progress, interviewing tips, and local employers providing information regarding employment opportunities.  WIEP provides lunch and occasionally a guest speaker. Click here for dates.

One-on-One Counseling

One-on-One Counseling is available for current and prospective students by appointment or on a phone-in basis. Counseling appointments will be arranged to fit your schedule.  WIEP also acts as an advocate for sexual harassment complaints.

Advising

Advising and supplemental counseling hosted by WIEP offers orientation programs for new students and their parents to help familiarize new students and their families with the environment and programs available here at CU-Boulder.

"Connections" E-Mail Network

Our weekly electronic mail Connections provides weekly updates about what's happening at the WIEP and current news on job prospects and scholarship information, as well as information about a host of events and networking opportunities.  WIEP commonly disseminates information about job opportunities, internships, scholarships, and other programs of interest to women. WIEP also publishes a newsletter with current events and news.

Job Shadowing

Job Shadowing allows students to visit women engineers in the field to learn, firsthand, the challenges and excitement of the profession.

Discover Engineering Day for High School Women

Discover Engineering Day invites high school students, parents and counselors to learn more about career opportunities within engineering. Current CU students as well as WIEP staff will speak with prospective students to assist them in selecting schools and majors.

WIEP Fall Newsletter

WIEP Fall Newsletter documents activities and reports results of programs and projects to the students, parents, and faculty population, as well as to members of the engineering community.

Female faculty lunches

Female faculty lunches hosted once or more per semester provide an opportunity for female faculty to meet one another and listen to a topic of mutual interest.

MentorNet

Many WIEP students are active participants in MentorNet, an electronic mentoring program. This program gives students an opportunity to interact via e-mail with female engineering professionals in their field of study.

Resource Center

The Resource Center is the focal point of the WIEP. Located on the first floor of the Civil Engineering wing (ECCE 100), the Resource Center is open 24 hours a day.  It is here that groups of women and men study, do homework together, and relax between classes. The resource center also has a library of books, computer terminals, a kitchenette, as well as textbooks and magazines of interest to women engineering students.