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Three Notre Dame Students Receive Society of Women Engineers Scholarships
Rebecca Hainley, Lindsay Gilmour, and Leigh Hickman each
received national scholarships from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
for the 2005-06 academic year. Hainley, a senior mechanical engineering major
from West Linn, Ore., won the GE Women’s Network Scholarship. The scholarship
is one of 13 given by the organization to a student with a GPA higher than
3.0. Gilmour, a freshman engineering intent from Henderson, Nev., received
money from the Exelon Corporation Scholarship Fund. The Exelon Corporation
gives five scholarships a year to first year-students in an engineering discipline.
The Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Fund awarded Hickman, a freshman engineering
intent from Maitland, Fla., a scholarship. This is one of five scholarships
given to first year-students with a preference to those intending to study
computer science.
A nationally recognized non-profit service organization, SWE gives support
and guidance to women engineers and engineering students. SWE’s goals
are to increase awareness of women’s opportunities in engineering,
as well as to help women overcome obstacles encountered in the field. At
the University of Notre Dame, Catherine F. Pieronek is the
director of the Women’s Engineering Program and the advisor for the
SWE-ND section board.
For more information on the Notre Dame SWE program, <click
here>
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Copyright 2006. University of Notre Dame.
