The Engineering Experience

College classes can be a large adjustment from high school classes. That’s why the Purdue Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) is here to help! As a woman in engineering at Purdue, you are automatically a part of WIEP and can take advantage of many opportunities and resources such as seminar classes , a mentorship program , informal chats with alumnae , and even free tutoring .   What is Purdue WIEP’s free tutoring? WIEP has partnered with Purdue’s WISP (Women in Science Program) to provide free homework and study help for 100 and 200 level math, science, and engineering courses. These 100&200 level classes cover roughly all engineering-specific courses you will take as a first-year engineering student at Purdue. Tutoring is offered both in-person and online!   Where and when is the tutoring?                Both in-person and online tutoring occurs between 7 PM and 10 PM every Sunday through T...

As the Class of 2025 are slowly adjusting to a new lifestyle of college life and being away from home, the Class of 2024 are also getting a new experience.  Many of the sophomore students were not able to go to in-person classes last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. Classes were either taking place completely virtually or in a hybrid format- where certain students would participate in class both virtually and in-person during each set week. Most events and extra-curricular activities took place virtually through Zoom or Microsoft Teams. This year, as Protect Purdue guidelines have adjusted accordingly to the COVID-19 statistics around West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County, people are once again able to experience life outside of a computer screen. Alena Megregian (Aerospace Engineering '24) and Athulya Nair (Biological Engineering '24) excited about sophomore year! One drastic change from last year is the transition from online classes to in-person classes. Students are now ab...

Once again on Purdue Campus, career fair season has come around! Our largest and most well-known career fair is of course the Industrial Roundtable. Organized by the Purdue Engineering Student Council (PESC) , Industrial Roundtable is a multi-day career fair bringing in over 400 companies and thousands of students to chat, network and identify the best internship or full-time offer for both parties. Around the same time, multiple other career fairs are also occurring for specific disciplines like Boilermaker Circuit for the electrical and computer engineers, Sigma for the industrial engineers, the Aerospace Career Expo and many more ! Overall, this is an amazing time for Purdue students of all years and disciplines as campus is filled with endless career opportunities. Here are a few short stories about the experiences of Purdue Women Engineers at those career fairs: Aikya on her way to Industrial Roundtable 2021! "As soon as I got back to campus for my sophomore year, I began pre...

     After completing my summer research internship virtually last year (you can read about it  here ), I was ecstatic to finally get to spend my summer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As someone looking to pursue a Ph.D. after graduation, doing research over the summer is a great way to dive into a project and get a feel for what kind of work I want to pursue in graduate school.  Kat in front of her research lab      This summer, I was lucky enough to participate in a research experience through the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology, which is a consortium that focuses on advancing the field of mechanobiology. I worked 40 hours a week in the lab, where I would run experiments, read current literature in my field, or work on my communication skills through writing abstracts or creating presentations. I was also able to take on my own projects, which helped me grow as a scientist and engineer. My summer research ...

The summer of 2021 was one I had been looking forward to since late September, 2020. At the start of that Fall semester, I began to question what I wanted to do with my major after I graduate. I had research and development (R&D) experience from a co-op in the medical device industry but was uncertain whether it was what I wanted to do long-term. As a biomedical engineer, you can do so much – work towards a Masters or PhD in engineering, medical school, industry, even law school. But law school tends to be the road less traveled, and therefore didn’t come to my attention until the start of my junior year. As a WIEP Leadership Team member, I have the opportunity to host Access Alum events, and hosted a current Indiana University law school student who graduated from Purdue in Chemical Engineering. From this experience, I was able to learn a ton about what it looks like to be an engineering student in law school and began to understand the importance of engineers in the intellectual ...