Ensuring a Dynamic and Diverse Engineering Workforce
NC State Engineering conducts many innovative academic and outreach programs for our students and future students. The nation’s competitiveness and North Carolina’s economic development depend on opening pathways for future engineers who work creatively in teams, get hands-on experiences and are globally engaged. It is important that the makeup of the future engineering workforce becomes more representative of the society whose issues and problems it will soon assiduously address and solve.
All of the College’s academic and outreach programs rely on external support. Our Corporate Relations team can work with you to target your corporation’s investment to those areas that most closely align with your company’s strategic goals.
- The College’s Women in Engineering Program is designed to recruit, support and encourage young women in the fields of engineering. Women are a decided minority in engineering, and the mentorship and bridge programs offered through Women in Engineering are designed to help these students overcome discouraging obstacles.
- NC State’s Women in Science and Engineering Living and Learning Community creates a unique environment in which first- and second-year women students engage in focused inquiry within their disciplines and begin to develop the skills and talents necessary to become successful engineers and scientists.
- International Programs in Engineering recognize the increasingly global nature of engineering and provide students with international opportunities to prepare them for the global marketplace.
- The college is renowned for its enterprising K-12 Outreach Programs, which send students into classrooms across the state and bring others to campus, all in an effort to increase the number and diversity of schoolchildren who will one day enter an engineering field.
- The Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program provides a select group of engineering students with the means to complement their technical education with an in-depth study of humanities or social studies. The program underscores the College’s commitment to producing well-rounded engineers with the capacity not only to produce technology, but to consider thoughtfully its outcomes.
- The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program educates and trains undergraduates as the vanguard of engineering leadership and entrepreneurship. Students prototype new products developed through their capstone senior design project requirements and lead their own virtual companies comprising underclassmen.