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By RENEE TACKETT
Women in engineering increase
Carrying pocket computers now instead of slide rules, the number of women in engineering has greatly increased since 1920, when Julia Carmen became the first woman to graduate from KU with a degree in engineering.
The recent emphasis on women in professional careers—even male-oriented professionals—has pushed the Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers, a student organization, may have caused the increase, according to the U.S. Institute professor of space engineering.
In fall 1972, six women majored in engineering; by fall 1973, 24 women were in engineering; in fall 1974, there were 42; and the enrollment more than doubled by fall 1975, when 96 women majored in engineering. Fall semester of this year the number of women graduated in December with engineering degrees and six more will graduate in May.
"I'M VERY interested in women in engineering," Smith said. "My theory is that brains can very well be packaged in female bodies."
According to Smith, 20 per cent of the engineers in the Soviet Union are women. In the United States, women have shied away from engineering until recently. Women with a good mathematics background were once hired as engineering assistants,
because women with engineering degrees couldn't be found.
"I thought the mental block wasn't in the young ladies, but in their parents," Smith
"IM INTERESTED in getting the youngster and parents to take a good look at it, not a stereotyped view," he said. "I think that the counseling of students is a sophisticated procedure—more so in women than men because women are stereotyped. They supposedly can do only certain things."
"If a young lady has talents in math and physics, or is interested in mechanical engineering and drawing, she should be encouraged to use these talents. But how can a high school counselor tell a kid what chemical engineering is?"
"ONE IMAGE I'd like to destroy is that you have to be a 4.0 student or even a 3.0 student," Smith said. "A young lady graduating with even a B average with a degree in engineering from KU would make a starting salary of $12,000 to $14,000."
To help solve the problem, a movie about women in engineering was loaded by the School of Engineering to high school students to be shown to interested students.
Engineering majors complete a 134-hour program, specializing in airspace, aeronautics, aviation and space.
Calculus and mathematics, chemistry,
physics, English, nouns and certain
words.
electrical, mechanical engineering or engineering physics.
TO HELP FEMALE engineering students Advancement of Women Engineers (UAAWE) was formed in 1974, and a charter of the Society of Women Engineers
The UAWAE helps women engineering students with financial problems and a lack of male peer support, according to Pam M. Kelley, president of E. Hogan, associate dean of engineering.
Financial contributions to the UAAW from the Continental Oil Company, Bell Systems, Mobile Oil Corporation and other industrial corporations help fund women in engineering. By next year, UAAW hopes to add 10 students for one academic year.
UAAWE has cosponsored an annual symposium, "The Participation of Minorities and Women in Engineering and the Non-Traditional Sciences," at Crown University City Mo., which attracted high school students and industrial representatives.
"THEERE WERE no women on the faculty at that time, so three of us (men) helped get the society started on campus." Smith said. "We had a big group of students, KU, she made us all honorary women."
Future activities for the two women's groups include high school and sometimes college experience and career awareness to increase the current trend of women in the field.
Combined meetings of the UAWE and the Society of Women Engineers attract speakers and sponsor activities—such as the International conference—to encourage women in engineering.
"THERE'S NOT really any difference in how we're treated by the professors, and we had good rapport with our fellow students," she said.
Women in the School of Engineering think
about being "Tamara Griffith,
Dodge City, Colorado."
Griffith said she was interested in engineering because her father and two uncles were engineers but she said there also were other attractions to the field.
The KU chapter of the Society of Women Engineers was chartered in February 1974. Naomi McAfee, national president, spoke at the chartering ceremony.
"Most women know that there are good opportunities right now in the field of engineering," she said. "If you're career-oriented, it's a good career."
Madonna Narvaez, Topika senior, said that many interested in engineering for a unique application.
"HERBERT Hoover was my favorite president and he was a mining engineer," she said. "I read all his biographies and thought it sounded fascinating."
Wednesdav. Anril 6.1977
The Douglas County unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 per cent this month from 4.4 per cent in February, Ed Mills, manager of Jobs Information Job Center, said yesterday.
more and more women seem to be finding that engineering can be an interesting field. Smith said, "As resources go down, the need for engineering goes up, up, up; and there's no reason why women can't succeed in the field."
Mills said that the unemployment rate would probably drop as low as 3 per cent
The February rate was an increase of almost 1 per cent since December. A total of 1,275 residents were unemployed from December to February, according to a report issued by the Kansas Division of Employment.
The report, which includes only the nongovernmental work force, states that the statewide rate in February was 4.8 per cent and the national employment nationwide was 7.3 per cent.
weather. There were fewer jobs in the industry this February than in February 1976.
The report predicts that 225 construction jobs will be gained during the next three months, but said there would be a "lesser percentage" of those requiring major building projects are scheduled."
"The weather was bad in December and January," Mills said, "which accounted for the rise. But it has straightened out now." The employment division report attributes the uplift in joblessness for February to construction layoffs caused by
Murray Hodge, manager of the Kansas Construction Co., 201 Perry St., said he couldn't predict whether the number of construction jobs would increase.
"There just aren't any jobs coming up right now." Hodge said. "There has been some bidding, but nothing major has come up."
Unemployment insurance payments also increased, from a total of 445 claims in December to 629 in February. There was a rise in unemployment in industry, and 127 from manufacturing jobs.
The employment division report forecasts that employment in Douglas County will increase by 425 jobs in the next three months.
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