Resources

Professional Development

For Our Members Seeking Career Enhancement

• Mentoring Connection
• Joint Engineering Societies Conference
• SWE National Site
  • Member Services
• SWE Region F Site

Associated Societies

Societies that we work with in Southern NH

• Northern New England ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• NH IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering)
• NH SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers)

Outreach

General

• National Girls Collaborative Project
• IEEE Pre-University Education
• UNH Tech Camp (Grades 7-10)
• Wind with Miller
• Thinkfinity
• Books/Downloadable Reading Materials
  • Young Women in Science: Forging New Pathways
  • Beating the Odds: Remarkable Women in Science
  • Career Trends: Careers Away from the Bench
  • Career Basics: Advise and Resources for Scientists from Science Careers
  • Why so few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

For Middle School Students

• OpticsForKids.org (Optical Society of America)
• U. Mass Lowell Design Camp
• FIRST Place Summer camps
• UNH Keepers

For High School Students Considering Engineering

• Explorer's Post
• FIRST
• OpticsForTeens.org
• TryEngineering.org
• U. Mass Lowell Design Camp
• Women in Aviation weekend
• Women in Science and Technology Conference for High School girls
• UNH Tech camp
• Christa Macauliffe - various programs related to engineering and science - page updated year-round
• NASA INSPIRE Program
• BAE Systems
  • Women in Technology Program - 16 Week Course for high school juniors or seniors to explore engineering
  • Engineering Career Day - Aims to introduce New England high school students to various disciplines of engineering
• WPI Programs
  • Frontiers - Two-week, summer residential program for soon-to-be juniors and seniors interested in science, mathematics, and engineering. Are you interested in interactive media and games? Does electricity excite you? Would investigating DNA be fun to you?
  • Launch - Five-day program for soon-to-be freshmen and sophomores interested in biology, chemistry/biochemistry, intereactive media and game development, and robotics. Does problem solving interest you? Do you want to get into a laboratory and discover?
  • Strive - Five-day residential program for minority high school students. Do technology and science interest you? Do you want to have the opportunity to discover more?
  • Wunders - Residential program for girls entering 9th and 10th grades who are interested in engineering, science and math. Do you think technology might be fun?
  • Venture Camp - Experience this week long, day camp for teens who like the idea of starting a new business or social venture. Discover your strengths and passions.
  • Camp Reach - A two week day camp that allows girls entering 7th grade to learn more about technology, science, and engineering. WPI has over 500 female students who find technology really interesting.
  • Tech Days - Experience a one week, co-ed day camp that brings you to the WPI campus and into laboratories, workshops, and more. If you are entering 6, 7 or 8th grade and think someday you might be a scientist, or an engineer, or an inventor, or who knows what.