Office of Women's Programs (OWP) at Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, NJ | 1998

The official biography below was current at the time of the award. See the organization's website for its latest information.

The Office of Women's Programs (OWP) at Stevens Institute of Technology has offered a wide array of mathematics, science and engineering programs over the past 20 years at the precollege and college levels in support of women. OWP has also served as a national model, developing and implementing several initiatives to provide other colleges and universities with resources, curricula, materials, and technical expertise to effectively mentor students and increase the representation of women in engineering in the U.S. Over 17,000 young women in grades seven through eleven have participated in OWP engineering and science career awareness programs.