The Women's Technology Program : EECS outreach for high school students

• Main Author: Ricket, Douglas J. (Douglas James), 1979-
• Other Authors: Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Eric Klopfer.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16972

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48). === This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. === The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a new residential summer school for high school students to live at MIT and study electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). In this thesis I present background research evaluating the state of the current gender imbalance in EECS as well as research describing other initiatives for improvement. I then describe the design and implementation of WTP at a level that it could be replicated by other universities. Finally, I analyze the results of WTP's first year and present suggestions for future development. === by Douglas J. Ricket. === M.Eng.