Meeting WIEP at Purdue's for Me Days

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Dr. Beth Holloway, Leah H. Jamieson Director of Women in Engineering, giving the introductory presentation about the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) at Purdue

Purdue’s for Me days are an opportunity to visit campus once you have been admitted and decide if Purdue is the right fit for you. We certainly hope that during your time on campus, you come to appreciate all that Purdue has to offer for an undergraduate experience in engineering. To help make this trip to campus even more informative and relatable for prospective students, the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) has put together a session for students and their families to attend where they can speak with current students.


To start off, the visiting students and their families learn a bit more about the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue and the various staff members that support it. After this short presentation, current students are there to talk about their experiences with clubs and organizations, housing, campus life, engineering curriculums of different disciplines, internships, co-ops and anything else the prospective students may be wondering about. There are many current students that volunteer at these sessions so they can be dispersed to small groups of visiting students and have more personal conversations with each prospective student. The past two Purdue’s for Me days has brought us a total of 31 students and some members of their families! We are so grateful to have met each of them and hope that their experience with the Women in Engineering Program at this event helped them feel more at home at Purdue.


The following dates are the upcoming Purdue’s for Me Days where you can spend some time with WIEP during our session from 3:30-4:30 in ARMS 1109. We hope you stop by and chat with us!

March 2nd
March 9th
March 23rd
March 30th
April 6th


- Marisa Hughes, BME '20
WE Link Leadership Team

Stay Connected With Purdue WIEP!
Twitter: @purduewiep 
Instagram: @purduewiep
Email: welink@purdue.edu

Use the hashtag #PurdueWIEP on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!



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