<p>SWE offers a wonderful award, as Certificate of Merit, to juniors showing interest in math and science as identified by the HS guidance counselors. The Local section very intentionally request two nomination: one male and one female, so as not to be exclusionary.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the male nominee at D’s school has been loud in refusing “some girly” award. Would he turn down an award to IEEE? probably not. But he has no qualms about rejects the SWE award. Until that is straighened out, discrimination will rage on.</p>
<p>Note on admissions: While overall male/female at tech oriented schools (RPI, WPI, Clarkson, Missouri S&T) are more balanced between men and women, if you look at the ASEE profiles (SAT, class rank) of the engineering student verses the overall school states, one can draw a presumption that its much harder to get into an tech school as an engineering major, rather then as a business or other major and there are far fewer women engineering majors then women as a whole.</p>