Category: Engineering Science
Changing the field, changing the world
Picture an engineer. Do you see a guy wearing a hardhat and a tie? If you look at the list of graduates from Sweet Briar’s Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program, you will find quite a different picture.
AREVA sponsors Sweet Briar’s Explore Engineering program
AREVA Inc. has given $35,000 to be the title sponsor of the AREVA Explore Engineering program at Sweet Briar College in the summer and fall of 2013 and spring of 2014.
Barta hopes program flips a switch
Kelsey Barta, a sophomore engineering student at Sweet Briar, will host about 20 area sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls for an after-school “Engineering for Girls” event Thursday, Jan. 31 at Guion Science Center.
‘NewsHour’ series features College’s STEM program
Sweet Briar’s STEM teacher development program is featured in a new online video series produced by PBS’s “NewsHour.”
Pannell Scholar: Engineering fits girls to a ‘T’
Kelsey Barta has invited Lynchburg and Amherst middle schoolers here for an after-school “Engineering for Girls” event, the first of three designed to get young girls excited about the field of engineering.
Sweet Briar’s engineering camp is taking applications
Sweet Briar College is inviting high school girls to sign up for its summer “Exploring Engineering Design” course to be held July 22-27. The class is open to rising juniors and seniors; deadline to register is June 20.
Engineering Sounds Great to Local Middle School Girls
Twenty-five sixth-grade girls from Nelson Middle School in Lovingston came to Sweet Briar yesterday for the first Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. The event was organized by Hank Yochum, director of the Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program, and project coordinator Paulette Porter-Stransky as part of National Engineering Week (Feb. 19-25). While Sweet Briar has [...]
Purvis Competes for World Championship
Sometime today first-year student Rosalie “Rosie” Purvis will compete in the women’s semifinal Modern Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
School and work combine to bring future into focus
Engineering science major Sarah Lightbody made the most of the summer before her senior year. It began with a mission to help people in Ilheus, Brazil, and finished with a coveted internship at AREVA Inc., a nuclear engineering firm and contractor in Lynchburg.
2011 Regatta Went Swimmingly
Now in it’s eighth year, the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta can rightly be called a Sweet Briar tradition. It’s been part of Homecoming Weekend since there was a Homecoming Weekend, and it’s as old as the engineering program that sponsors it.
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