Attracting Women To Engineering That Serves Developing Communities

The University of Colorado at Boulder has created a program in Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC). It is currently formalized as a graduate program within the Environmental sub-discipline of Civil Engineering. Longer term plans are to create a certificate option for undergraduate students in the College of Engineering. In the meantime, a variety of courses have included EDC-related content and projects. Service-learning and active-learning opportunities to serve developing communities are available at the University of Colorado. To date, anecdotal evidence exists that the EDC program is particularly attractive