Bridging the Gap: One Woman’s Mission to Get Female Engineers into Graduate School and Beyond

Women make up only 13% of practising engineers, and Natalie Ownby is ready to change that.

Natalie Ownby, electrical engineering PhD student and founder of SHEengineered (photo by Grace Dupuy)

Here’s the problem: out of the 30,000 women who graduate from undergraduate engineering degrees every year in the United States, only 60% of them will become working engineers. It’s still not completely understood why…