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WISE Summer Engineering Camp for girls returns to SUNY New Paltz, July 31 – Aug. 4(뉴욕주립대 뉴팔츠)SUNY New Paltz[뉴욕대학교순위,뉴욕주립대순위]
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WISE Summer Engineering Camp for girls returns to SUNY New Paltz, July 31 – Aug. 4(뉴욕주립대 뉴팔츠)SUNY New Paltz
SUNY New Paltz’s student-run Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) chapter will host the second annual Summer Engineering Camp for girls age 13-17, from July 31 – Aug. 4 at the New Paltz campus.
The WISE camp returns after a successful first year in 2016, this time with a curriculum that shifts from “STEM” to “STEAM” – that is, adding a creative Arts focus to traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math content.
The new approach is directly related to research done this year by WISE faculty director and Assistant Engineering Professor Reena Dahle.
Dahle recently worked with students Lori Jockers ’16 (Mechanical Engineering) and Alicia Scott ’17 (Mechanical Engineering) to examine the recent rise of female enrollment in computer, electrical and mechanical engineering majors, and how a growing number of those students are graduating with minors in fine and performing art disciplines.
Their paper argues that these students “graduate with a strong foundation in engineering and a hands-on practical understanding of materials, manufacturing, design and process.” The group presented their findings at the 2016 conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for Women in Engineering.
Tamara Ordonez Diaz ’17 (Mechanical Engineering), another WISE engineering student and summer camp counselor, has been helping add art concepts to this year’s program, and said she’s excited to see the results.
“Taking art classes as an engineer is very important because it allows you to see a problem and solve it in a completely different way,” she said. “In engineering you learn about the properties of the materials, while in art you learn about how to mold the materials and make something useful out of them. Having an understanding of both sides allows you to think outside the box and be more creative.”
This year’s WISE Summer Engineering Camp participants will be led by some of New Paltz’s finest engineering faculty and students, will have access to state of the art equipment at the newly-renovated Wooster Hall on campus, and will have opportunities to tour off-site facilities and meet with professional engineers in the Hudson Valley.
