The Quest for Women Engineers: Students Embark on Engineering Quests at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

As the gender ratio in STEM has remained imbalanced for years, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is one of many academic institutions implementing female-focused programs in STEM subjects. For the last decade, UWM has hosted the EnQuest summer program for female high school students, and last summer EnQuest integrated simulation through the Ansys Academic Program to enable students to explore real-life patient case studies. In addition to a week-long project, students are introduced to career engineers at off-site networking events and brought to visit nearby labs, including UWM’s Connected Systems Institute. Read the article here.