ENGINEERING FOR
While engineering still ap
pears to be a male bastion, wo
men are beginning to wake up to
this profession's job opportun
ities, says Dr. Nunzio J. Pall
andino, dean of the College of
Engineering at The Pennsylvania
State University.
He offers some statistics
to illustrate his point.
Since 1967, the enrollment
of freshman women in engincerw.
ing has risen from 0.4 to 7.6
percent at Penn, State campuses,
he reports. In lyb7, only five
women were enrolled in engineer
ing at the University; in 1972,
there were 13; and this year,
the female freshman enrollment
has jumped to 96. The number
of freshmen women enrolled in
engineering at the University
Park Campus, for example, has
jumped from 0.7 to 4.8 percent
since 1967--from two to 66 wo
men.
"The fact that women cur
rently comprise less than one
percent of all U.S. engineers,"
says Dean Pallandino, "is pro
bably due to a preconceivedLim.
age of engineers which does not
include women."
Dr. Pallandino thinks there's
a misconception on the part of
the general public that engineer
ing jobs require more brawn than
brain.
"The mental labor usually
far outweighs any sort of Ally
sical exertion, and most engio
nears work in offices, not at
construction sites," says Dr.
Palladino.
WOMEN
Penn State is among vari
ous universities throughout the
country which are inducing wo
men to enter this formerly male
oriented profession. Brochures
on opportunities in engineering
are sent to Pennsylvania high
school juniors and seniors and
to women who express interest
in engineering. The University
has also produced a series of
radio and television spots on
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CH IPP ER
what the engineering prefess
ion has to offer women.
"But despite the fact that
we're trying to encourage qual
ified women to accept the chall
enge of the engineering profes
sion," says Dr. Pallandino, "the
College of Engineering does not
maintain a double standard. Our
women are treated the same as
the men."
FAREWELL
The Highacres Collegian staff
Would like to take this oppor
tunity to pay a fond farewell
to the following former mem
,bers of the staff:
Charles Novitaky
Chuck Hiller
Nancy Meiser
William Michael
Dear Santa Claus,
I would like a new line
of hate for winter term.
Thank you.
Dr. A.
Dear Santa,
I would like a yacht for
Christmas.
White Poodle