Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

In what can be a lonely field for women even during the best of times, Marisol Hernández’s first year in engineering school coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, when classes were held remotely rather ...

Alexandra Holloway (Ph.D. computer science, 2015) works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Photo by Krys Blackwood) Darrell Long (center) shared a laugh with students and visitors at the Baskin ...

The low numbers of female computer science majors may have roots in the mid-1980s and the rise of personal computers Maris Fessenden Former correspondent In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace met ...

A wall of video screens allows city traffic engineers to monitor and adjust traffic signals to allow for safe and efficient transportation in Cedar Rapids. City Traffic Engineer Cari Pauli finds this ...

Women are increasingly joining the tech sector by less conventional means than traditional graduate entry. But that does not mean to say career pathways are either standardized, clear or ...

Many strides have been made over the last few decades to increase the number of women in engineering. Back in the 1970’s women accounted for only 3% of engineers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Role models are everywhere, and while Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech highlights the women at the top of their game in the technology sector, every woman in a tech or ...

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) — Texas’ first woman engineer was honored in her hometown of Bastrop on Monday. Leah Moncure was the first woman in Texas to earn a professional engineering license. She went on ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...