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Dean engineers crack in glass ceiling

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Published Tuesday, February 5, 2008
When she conceptualized the freshman seminar “The Engineering of Ice Cream,” Kyle Vanderlick, then the chair of Princeton’s Chemical Engineering Department, was looking for a way to get college students excited about the possibilities of engineering.
#1 By Holly Rushmeier (Unregistered User) 8:30am on February 5, 2008

The article states "In its most recent issue, the American Society for Engineering Education ranked Yale first for the number of female students who earned bachelor’s degrees in engineering."

How can that be? According to

http://www.asee.org/publications/profiles/upload/2006ProfileEng.pdf

In the academic year 2005-6, Georgia Tech awarded 306 engineering degrees to women. Among the Ivies, Cornell awarded 183 engineering degrees to women. Yale doesn't even award this many engineering degrees each year.

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