Girl Power
Coming into Virginia Tech’s engineering program, Angela Walker knew that as a woman, she would be in the minority. That’s why she chose to live in Hypatia, an all-female engineering community, her first two years. “Nothing can replace the ability to walk down the hallway and get help on homework,” says Walker, now a junior majoring in mechanical engineering. “If it weren’t for the network of people you meet through this program, many girls might feel intimidated to the point that they decide to drop out of engineering,” she says. “We empower each other.”
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Diane Gulyas joined DuPont 30 years ago — starting “at the bottom,” as she puts it — with a newly minted B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Today, many different duties and promotions later, she’s a group vice president heading one of DuPont’s largest divisions: Performance Materials.
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