Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)

HRD 03-28144佩纳的妇女工程项目(WEP)。州立大学让女性参与者参与了职业发展的广泛领域。这是一个非常有力的提名；小组成员表示，它很好地瞄准了指导计划应该是什么。值得注意的是，25%的参与者是有色人种女性。WEP已经确定了女性在学术工程项目中遇到的障碍以及克服这些障碍的战略/方法。工程专业的女性留校率很高(大二结束时为60%-70%)。WEP为刚步入大学的女性提供导师。它是一个有多种活动的项目，涉及一对一的指导和团队领导活动。WEP的成功率很高，结果得到了证实，并得到了大学的支持。校园中的其他项目正在使用WEP迎新组件作为模型，其他大学正在采用整体WEP作为模型。

HRD 03-28144The Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at Penna. State University involves women participants across a broad range of points in career development. This is a very strong nomination; the panelists indicated that it targets well what a mentoring program should be. Notably, 25% of participants are women of color. WEP has identified barriers to women in academic engineering programs and strategies/methods to overcome them. Women in engineering are retained at a high rate (60-70% at the end of sophomore year). WEP provides mentors for women early in their collegiate experience. It is a program with a variety of activities, and involves one-on-one mentoring and team leadership activities. WEP has a good success rate with proven results and is supported by the University. Other programs on campus are using the WEP orientation component as a model and other universities are adapting the overall WEP as a model.