Promoting Diversity in Kansas' Future Technological Workforce Through Outr...


Panel/Workshop:	Concurrent Session
Paper Title:	Promoting Diversity in Kansas' Future Technological Workforce Through Outreach Programs: The Boeing Experience
Date & Time:	06/09/03 11:10
Abstract:	The Boeing Company values diversity as a means of staying competitive in a global marketplace. Outreach programs can help cultivate a diverse technological workforce in the state of Kansas. Corporate partnerships with university-based women/minorities in engineering programs enable both partners to leverage resources for the largest impact. For the past two years, Boeing has sent women engineers to the Kansas State University campus to participate in the Girls Researching Our World (GROW) summer workshop, www.ksu.edu/grow. In addition, Boeing has participated for many years in National Engineer’s Week programs such as “Engineer For A Day”. In the past, this program has predominantly attracted boys. Recently, we worked with the Women in Engineering and Science Program (WESP) at K-State to draw a larger number of high school girls to this program. As a result, further collaborations with WESP were developed. Important factors for successful collaboration are identified, and evaluation data are reported. Index Terms---diversity, industry partnership
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