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Attracting Women To Engineering Through Service-Based Learning, Celine Manoosingh

Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Faculty Research & Publications

Attracting Women to Engineering through Service Based Learning Georgia Southern University’s Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Management (CECM) has developed a program that utilizes a service-learning based curriculum as a vehicle to attract and retain young women to engineering fields. In 2012, women made up less than 20%of the undergraduate population of the CECM department at Georgia Southern University. In response, the department has launched an initiative to motivate young women to choose engineering as a career path. The goal of the program is to attract women by creating sustainable service-learning based curriculum that is mutually beneficial to the …